[SOLVED] Changing the Sort order on BDC Actions in SharePoint

Changing the Sort order on BDC Actions in SharePoint

We have a number of Actions defined in a BDC (Business Data Catalog) definition in SharePoint, and need to change the order they are displayed in the UI.

Within the Action defintion, there is a Position field, which we are specifying, however, the UI wants to display everything in Alphabetical order, which isn't what we are after.

An example of the Position section of the BDC Definition is shown below.

Do you know how this could be achieved successfully ?

<Action 
  Position="10" 
  IsOpenedInNewWindow="true" 
  Url="http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22{0}%22"
  ImageUrl="/_layouts/1033/images/TAH/Google.gif" 
  Name="Google for Assured Name">
    <ActionParameters>
        <ActionParameter Index="0" Name="assured_name" />
    </ActionParameters>
</Action>

(PS I did consider putting this on SuperUser, but there is no BDC there, and there are a number of BDC related questions on here, so here it is... ;) )

Solution

You could do through the naming of your actions, for example:

01 This is the first action
02 This is the second action

A bit of a hack, but it should work.