Nested content sort order is not the same after an import.

[AleksandrRogov]

Hi all!
Do you know if it could be an issue with uSync or maybe an issue with something else (maybe we configure it incorrectly) or maybe it is supposed to work this way?

We use Umbraco 15.2.2 and uSync 15.1.2 (yet to install a patch). We have content items with nested content.

When we sort nested content and export it using uSync and then import the files in another website instance - the sort order of the nested content items is not preserved/transferred. It seems to be adding elements to the end, without updating the changed sort order of existing nested items in that instance.

It's not a big deal, we can sort those items after an import, but just wanted to confirm.

Update,
I am talking about the Content Tree:

Thanks!

[KevinJump]

Hi,

Yes we will take a look, it shouldn't really mess the order up, but there might be a couple of things were we might be trying to be to clever (especially when we merge things for roots).

just to confirm this is v15, so its Block Lists or Block Grid ? (Not nested content, because that's gone).

[AleksandrRogov]

Sorry for a confusion. I am talking about the nested Content items inside the Content section. The Content Tree nodes maybe?

And yes, it's v15.

[KevinJump]

Hi - I would just check you don't have the IgnoreSortOrder value set in the appsettings.json (the default is false, so if its not there).

Then i would just check the uSync.config files to confirm they have the correct 'sortorder' values you are expecting in them.

I've just done a few checks and on a clean site it does work, I know if you are syncing between two sites that might not have been synced before it might take more than one go to settle the sort order because you might have multiple items with the same sort order that are not all in the usync file. (but a full export and import should fix this).

[AleksandrRogov]

Just checked, we don't have IgnoreSortOrder. uSync files in that website have the same sort order as in my local version. The website is being synced solely by me, so there should not be any "conflicts". And it's being synced quite often.

I will try to reproduce this on clean websites and submit you my results (even if I can't repro this). It could be just an issue with our specific instance.

Thanks for quick replies!

[AleksandrRogov]

I was able to reproduce the behaviour on two clean websites.
There are two projects: Project44372 and Project44373 - where the numbers are the port numbers, just to make it easier to differentiate the two.

The behaviour reproduction:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/637b0eda-ea13-4308-a156-74f2ebad05b7

Exported uSync files + appsettings of the target website:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/be28dca7-7441-4784-8daa-cfed7cdf1635

Hope this helps!

[KevinJump]

Hi moving to an issue, i think there is a case where when an item is created and sorted in one action the sort isn't brought across to the other site : #732