How to name test cases so they display in date order

Question

Hi there

Can anyone advise me on how to names test cycles so that they display in date order please?

I have tried DD.MM.YYYY (05.01.2022) and DD/MM/YYYY (05/01/2022) for example, and sorting by name only seems to recognise the first digits DD and ignores the MM so I wind up with:

05.01.2022 - PVT Testing
15.02.2022 - TEST Side 1
18.01.2022 - PVT Testing

Any help would be appreciated

Martin in Darwin :-)

Martin Goreing · Answer

Thanks Nic

I'll give that a go.

Cheers

Martin

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

It's sorting alphabetically, not numerically or by date.

Alphabetic sort does not understand dd-mm-yyyy.  Nor does it understand US dates (no sort gets that right without having to be coded for the wrongness), but it will work for yyyy-mm-dd, so try using that as the prefix format.