Feature request - Sort collection requests

[alan-givati]

App Details:

Postman for Mac
Version 6.0.7-canary01
OS X 17.4.0 / x64

Issue Report:

1. I lost the order of my collection requests after an update.
2. Ordering requests manually is time-consuming. Please add a feature to sort a collection; by title would certainly cover my use case. Maybe custom sorting (by any request item property) could also be useful to some.

[SamvelRaja]

@alan-givati Update should not change the order of request inside the collection. Is that the order of collection? or the order of requests inside the collection changed after the update.

[alan-givati]

@SamvelRaja The order of the requests inside each collection was lost, with new seemingly random positions for each request item.

[SamvelRaja]

@alan-givati Thanks for the info. We had an issue in our initial canary versions from 6.0.1-canary01 to 6.0.4-canary01 which lost the order of the request while migrating data from 5.x version to 6.x version.

Can you check the order of the collection in the server, click -> arrow icon in the collection -> in details view -> click the view docs button.

If the order is proper, then logout and login back will fix the problem for you in app.

Anyway, I am forwarding your concern of having sort for requests to our UI/UX team.

[alan-givati]

@SamvelRaja Understood. I could not find a "view docs" button. Do you mean "View in web" ? It does not work; I get sent to a URL https://documenter.getpostman.com/collections/{some ID} that displays an error: "404 The resource you're looking for can't be found. Please check the URL before trying again."

Yes, something went wrong here; I see old collections in https://app.getpostman.com/dashboard/collections/private and /team is empty.

[SamvelRaja]

@alan-givati This need some more information to debug. Can you send a mail to help[at]getpostman[dot]com with your collection name from your registered email address.

[alan-givati]

@SamvelRaja Hi Samvel. I sent an email to that address last week. Did you get it?

[ChrisYarland-Price]

This Happens all the time i try to have a backed up version that i can import at all times as i got sick of having to reorder stuff

[chipallen2]

Any update on this? My collections also got reordered and now the sort icon isn't there next to the add collection button like it is supposed to be so I can't resort them.

I'm on v6.6.1 - windows.

I tried going to https://web.postman.co/me/collections and I don't see a sort button over there either to help me.

[lostless13]

Second this feature. Have to manually sort a large request collection is really frustrating. The ability to sort by folder/request name would be a big improvement.

[ghost]

+1 7.0.4 here no icon

[bisutti]

On version 7.0.6, the sort icon no longer exists.

[ghost]

It's not there on 7.0.4 either

[yonatron]

Come ON you guys!! WE NEED SORTING!! Please add this feature back in - ASAP... Thank you...

[JustinLavertu-iQ]

Sorting would be great but the first thing that needs to happen is being able to reorder collections. There is no way to reorder collections in the Sidebar at all.

[johnli2210]

@alan-givati @yonatron @JustinLavertu-iQ @jbruns2015 Looks like the chrome app (deprecated) still has the sort feature. Unfortunately as it's deprecated I don't think it syncs with your account... Perhaps there is a way to import your collections to the Chrome App, sort and then export? I haven't tested it, but could be a workaround.

[ghost]

Good to know.

Desktop app needs to be fixed.

As Pink Floyd would say "is there anybody in there, just nod if you can hear me, is there anyone home?" directed at the developers to add it back please.

[csicky]

Is this thing on?

[Gcsaniz]

Another vote to fix the missing sort icon! On the latest version 7.2.2 of Postman for Mac OS and there is no way to execute the "Reorder Collections" function that is clearly documented on the Postman learning site:

https://learning.getpostman.com/docs/postman/collections/managing_collections/#reorder-collections

[migumun]

Is there any update on this? I just got 7.7.3 on linux and the sort feature is still missing. It is really inconvenient to reorder the stuff manually (worst part was that I lost ordering right before doing a customer demo with no time to react :( )

[serg1409]

Postman Team! Please, please fix it! See also https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/4272

[smccue]

Still not there in Mac desktop Version 7.23.0 (7.23.0). This is pretty ludicrous: sorting by name is easy, and exists in basically every other application where there is a list. And you used to have it.

[dshippy56]

To summarize:

• this existed in Postman 5

• it was noted as being broken in 6.0.7 more than 2 and a half years ago

• it is still not fixed at 7.32.0

• see #4272 for details

• IMHO it is not a new feature being requested...it is a bug to be fixed. Enhancements to as-is functionality from Postman 5 would be a new feature.

[ChillarAnand]

Any plans on fixing this in the next version?

[fgiacomelli]

+1 for this request!

[GlimpRemco]

Help!!!! Every time I import my collection, the sorting of all my requests inside the folders are all messed up. I’m using the latest Desktop version v7.35.0

[sheprnd]

+1 for this request!

[technikhil314]

+1 for this. Especially for shared collections. It becomes difficult to find what we want.

[mnannola]

+1, having to drag and drop each call in a collection is not very efficient when you have 100+ calls in a collection.

[GlimpRemco]

Updating to Postman Desktop version 7.36.0 solved the sorting issue for me

[GlimpRemco]

@clarkwang I had an issue, when I imported a Collection the Requests did not import in the correct order, they were all mixed up in the folder. This issue is fixed now, So when I import a Collection the requests are in the same order as when I exported the Collection

[Jan1torEarl]

+1 How is this not a thing??

[BerlijnGiscdic]

+1 we've been waiting for too long now

[amaillo-mc]

+1 for me too

[pantonis]

my collections are messed. I have hundreds of endpoints and they cannot be sorted. I cannot imagine that they designed postman without this important feature. I mean what were they thinking?

[ghost]

I just want to sort my list of collections alphabetically.

[JasinYip]

This is a dead project. The owners do not care about what the users thinking.

[andres07a]

This may help someone

const fs = require('fs')
const path_file = 'postman_collection.json'
const rawdata = fs.readFileSync(path_file)
const postman_collection = JSON.parse(rawdata)
postman_collection.item.sort((a, b) => (a.name > b.name ? 1 : -1))
fs.writeFileSync(path_file, JSON.stringify(postman_collection)) // folders currently sorted ascending

[brandonkirsch]

The price keeps going up but the features keep being removed. What gives?

[Redhunt2013]

this is a simple option missing from the tool