Umbraco 6: How to put newly created node on top - umbraco

Question

In Umbraco 6, when you create a new node, it is put at the bottom.
You have to sort it manually if you want it to be on the top.
How can you make new nodes appear on the top by default?

Answer 1

You could create an event handler that changes the sort order of the nodes when the new node is created. See Application startup events & event registration for more details on implementing an handler of your own.
Rough untested example which I am sure you could make more elegant but should point you in the right direction:
public class YourApplicationEventHandlerClassName : ApplicationEventHandler
{
protected override void ApplicationStarted(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
{
ContentService.Created += ContentServiceCreated;
}
private void ContentServiceCreated(IContentService sender, NewEventArgs<IContent> e)
{
var cs = ApplicationContext.Current.Services.ContentService;
var content = e.Entity;
var parentNode = content.Parent();
content.SortOrder = parentNode.Children().OrderBy(n => n.SortOrder).First().SortOrder - 1;
cs.Save(content);
}
}

Answer 2

The ContentService.Created event did not work for me. Took some battles, but in v7 of Umbraco, I've used the ContentService.Saved event instead, with some double checking on dirty properties to ensure you don't end up in a saving infinite loop:
private void ContentSaved(IContentService sender, SaveEventArgs<IContent> e)
{
foreach (var content in e.SavedEntities)
{
var dirty = (IRememberBeingDirty)content;
var isNew = dirty.WasPropertyDirty("Id");
if (!isNew) return;
var parentNode = content.Parent();
if (parentNode == null) return;
var last = parentNode.Children().OrderBy(n => n.SortOrder).FirstOrDefault();
if (last != null)
{
content.SortOrder = last.SortOrder - 1;
if (content.Published)
sender.SaveAndPublishWithStatus(content);
else
sender.Save(content);
}
}
}
public class AppStartupHandler : ApplicationEventHandler
{
protected override void ApplicationInitialized(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication,
ApplicationContext applicationContext)
{
ContentService.Saved += ContentSaved;
}
}