Sorting folders base on extended attribute?

Question

I created a subclass of folder and added custome
attribute 'sort'. I added several folders with the 'sort' value
set. Now I want to retrive these folders sorted by the 'SORT'
attribute. Below is my code, note if I put 'NAME' as my
sortqualifier value the sort works, but using 'SORT' does not
work, it returns 0 results.
How can I specify the sort order which I want my folders to
appear when the order is not based on the Folder class
attributes? Does if not possible with subclassing what about
other options?
Vector liblist = new Vector();
Folder po = null;
PublicObject[] libraries = null;
SortSpecification sort = new SortSpecification();
SortQualifier sq = new SortQualifier("SORT", true); // <<< note
attr.
sort.addSortQualifier(sq);
String rootDir = m_Root + curloc;
po = (Folder)getPublicObject(session, rootDir);
po.setSortSpecification(sort);
libraries = po.getItems();
for (int i = 0; i < libraries.length; i++) {
     liblist.addElement(libraries.getName());

Answer 1

I don't know of any functionality to do that in Bridge now; however, it certainly can be done via scripting.
Perhaps one of our forum contributors might want to take on a "picture sorter" script...
Bob
Adobe Workflow Scripting