Is Confluence not intelligent enough to properly sort numbers?
A picture is worth 1000 words, but as near as I can tell, Confluence's Child Pages insert doesn't understand how to sort numbers when sorting Z –> A or A –> Z. Am I missing something?
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Tommaso Gionfriddo _Teklada_
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Hi Rob,
In Confluence cloud, text is sorted character by character. This means that the first character of each line is checked, and then the lines are sorted Z to A. Then, for each group of lines which had the same character at that point, the lines in that group are sorted by the next character in the line.
In your case, although it looks like Confluence thinks that 9 is greater than 10, it is actually correctly sorting 9 above 1.
I've attached a diagram which should help to illustrate the process more clearly.
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