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I am extremely new to SharePoint. What I need to do is have a folder's content sort by date. We have a list of Automated Reports, which is really a list of different report folders. I need this list to sort by name (which it is). However; I need to be able to sort the files inside each folder to sort by Date - Descending. I created a View and I thought I was assigning it to a specific folder, but the entire list of Automated Reports sorted by date.

So, my questions are: Should I be using a View? And, if so, how to I assign it to a specific folder? And, if not, what should I be doing to set the files to always sort in Descending Date order?

Also, please note: I'm not sure if the version of SharePoint we're using is 2007 or 2010. Best guess is 2007.

DataGirl
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A friend of mine found a simple solution for that.

You need to create a site column of type Date and Time, and assign Today's date to it. Then, you append this site column to the Document content type, and make the sorting view first by the field Today, then by Title.

The Folder content type won't have the Today site column, so, it will sort by title. When you upload a document inside a folder, you will have your sorting settings by the Today column.

Alexandre Machado
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