CCM 2.0: Alphabetic sorting of product categories

Hi,
We are using CCM 2.0. I am interesting in influencing the sorting of product categories during a catalog search. We use both the hierarchy and the index search.
It seems that the product categories are sorted by the product category number. We would prefer to provide an alphabetic sorting of product category description to the employees.
Can we influence this? and if so how?
Your reply is highly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Martijn
P.S. Edit Catalogs > tab Content > Radio button "Sort by" ID or Description keeps jumping back to ID as default even after saving.
Message was edited by: M. Roggeband

Hi Martijn
Unfortunately there is no simple way to influence the sorting of categories in the hierarchy search. We are focusing the same problem. Due to this problem we recently wrote an OSS-Call to SAP. They replied that this system behavior (sort by category-id) is standard and we should either modify our system or send a customer request. We are doing both. Last week I sent a customer request to SAP and soon we will try to modify the method SORT_CATEGORY_LIST in an appropriate way.
If you think SAP should solve this problem, please send a customer request to SAP too. The more requests they get the better chance we have, that they will do something.
Kind regards
Reto

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