Maintain Sort Order

Workday enables you to assign a sort order to selected subordinates and included items in a hierarchy. You only need to assign a sort order to the subordinates or included organizations that you want to display first. Example: Your organization has 100 subordinates, and you want to display the 5 most important ones at the top. You specify sort orders for only those subordinates.

Workday sorts hierarchies and business processes similarly. You control the sort order by entering 1 or more alphanumeric characters, considering:

Workday sorts numbers sequentially, not numerically. Example: 10 sorts before 2. We recommend you use letters to control the sort order, rather than numbers.
Workday displays lowercase before uppercase letters but displays orderable items in no particular order regardless of case.
When you use the same string for orderable items, you create a group of orderable items. Workday sorts items within the group in no particular order, but ensures that the group as a whole displays in its appropriate location in the resulting set of ordered items.
You can skip letters. Example: a, c, d, f.
Items with 2 letters display after the single-letter item. Example: Item ca displays after item c. Workday recommends using this method to insert a step without having to change the order designation of subsequent steps. Example: a, b, ba, bb, d.