# Feature Request - Action groups - Sort by A-Z or Z-A
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-action-groups-sort-by-a-z-or-z-a/50202
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [September 16, 2020, 11:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-action-groups-sort-by-a-z-or-z-a/50202 "2020-09-16T11:00:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@stevehero](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/stevehero)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2020, 11:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-action-groups-sort-by-a-z-or-z-a/50202/1 "2020-09-16T11:00:04Z")
I see there's a whole bunch of updates to this in the latest release. Thanks @Florian.
Would it be possible to have an RMB context menu to sort them A-Z or Z-A?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-action-groups-sort-by-a-z-or-z-a/50202/2 "2020-09-23T12:50:09Z")
Added sorting by name (and by enabled state) with [Mp3tag v3.02b](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/455) (sort twice to reverse the order). Thanks for the suggestion!
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### Author:  [@stevehero](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/stevehero)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-action-groups-sort-by-a-z-or-z-a/50202/3 "2020-09-23T14:16:41Z")
Great. Thanks for the very quick turnaround.
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### Author:  [@stevehero](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/stevehero)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-action-groups-sort-by-a-z-or-z-a/50202/4 "2020-09-24T17:59:51Z")
I've just tested this and it doesn't sort by name when there are actions that start with a lowercase letter. These get sorted at the bottom below the last item.
Also, actions that start with `_` for example have the same behaviour and are at the bottom.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-action-groups-sort-by-a-z-or-z-a/50202/5 "2020-09-25T21:29:32Z")
Thanks for pointing, will switch to natural sorting with the next version.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-action-groups-sort-by-a-z-or-z-a/50202/6 "2020-09-27T17:12:44Z")
Sorting should work as expected now with [Mp3tag v3.02c](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/455).
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### Author:  [@stevehero](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/stevehero)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-action-groups-sort-by-a-z-or-z-a/50202/7 "2020-09-28T15:06:06Z")
Works perfectly, thanks @Florian.
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### Author:  [@marktherob2001](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/marktherob2001)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-action-groups-sort-by-a-z-or-z-a/50202/8 "2020-09-29T03:33:36Z")
Can a sort only highlighted items be done so I can sort a subset of actions.
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-action-groups-sort-by-a-z-or-z-a/50202/9 "2020-10-15T23:01:56Z")
Yes, that would be a nother logical thing to be implemented
Because if I execute `Sort by name` now I will simply mess up my overall menu - while in order to sort alphabetically only some sub-menu I have to do revert to manual methods
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### Author:  [@marktherob2001](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/marktherob2001)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-action-groups-sort-by-a-z-or-z-a/50202/10 "2020-10-16T03:26:30Z")
Totally agree with you. Hopefully, Florian will implement that soon.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2020, 6:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-action-groups-sort-by-a-z-or-z-a/50202/11 "2020-10-16T06:40:33Z")
I wonder how often in a life of an action group it is necessary to sort a bunch alphabetically.
I see it as a nice feature if you have gathered a number of action groups over the time and then get them together if they are spread all over the list.
It is also nice to have them grouped together if one has devised some kind of naming scheme, esp. in repect to submenus.
But from them on ... I don't know.
The order of the action groups also sets the order of them being executed when one selects more than one action group.
So I would have to watch out that another attempt to sort still keeps the proven order which means that I have to think of a naming scheme that will grant that order even after sorting.
Or the other simple way would be - and that is available right now:
Sort the action groups once, move them to the required order and every new action group then gets inserted in the correct place - so that no further alphabetical sorting would be necessary, on the contrary, would even be counterproductive.
And all that in respect to my kind of workflow. Others may work in a different way.
I just wanted to point out that I will be able to live without that feature for some time to come.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2020, 6:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-action-groups-sort-by-a-z-or-z-a/50202/12 "2020-11-15T06:40:35Z")
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