Help: Batch Renaming in Predefined Order

I couldn't find the answer on here, hopefully someone can redirect me or help me out.
There's a feature In Photostation, another metadata editing software, that I assume should be in Bridge although I can't figure out how to do it. I frequently get a folder of up to 20 photos, which are named based on when the photographer shot them during the photo shoot. I have to rename them to our standard naming convention, but reorder them so they are listed in the order they show up in a layout. In Photostation, I can look at the folder, select them one at a time while holding the shift key, and then when I batch rename, the program renames the images in the order I had selected. them So the 5th photo now becomes 1, the last one 2, the third one 3 etc etc.
Is there any way to do this in Bridge? It looks like it just does a straight one to one rename, the first of the original file names becomes the first in the new file names the second the second etc etc.
Any help would be appreciated.

Is there any way to do this in Bridge? It looks like it just does a straight one to one rename, the first of the original file names becomes the first in the new file names the second the second etc etc.
To my knowledge selecting with shift does not rename them in that order. You have however different options for sorting using the sort filter and you can also place them in a manual order (not that nice working as only click in the order as you wish). When having the files in the correct order using batch rename should rename the files in the shown order either descending or ascending according to the selected option.

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