---
title: "View.SetSorting - Web Scraping API - Mozenda"
slug: "viewsetsorting"
description: "View.SetSorting sets the sorting configuration of your specified view and replaces any existing sorting rules. "
updated: 2024-05-14T14:23:35Z
published: 2024-05-14T14:23:35Z
canonical: "help.mozenda.com/viewsetsorting"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# View.SetSorting

### Description

Sets the **sorting** configuration for the **view**.

          Existing rules replaced

          

Setting a new **sorting** method will replace any existing rules for **sorting**, not add to them.

### URL parameters

          URL parameter ordering

          

The **URL parameters** below are listed in the order they should be entered in the API **URL**.

| Name | Required | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `ViewID` | True | numeric | Unique identifier of the **view**. |
| `Fields` | False | string | Comma-separated; sort method defaults to ascending unless *desc* is specified, see request sample below. |

### Responses

| Name | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `Result` | string | `Success` if the operation was successful. |

### Sample request

```
curl -X GET "https://api.mozenda.com/rest?WebServiceKey=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX&Service=Mozenda10&Operation=View.SetSortings&ViewID=1111&Fields=TVTitle,Season%20desc&ResponseFormat=JSON"
```

### Sample responses

#### XML

```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ApiResponse 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
	<Result>Success</Result>
</ApiResponse>
```

#### JSON (add `&amp;ResponseFormat=JSON`)

```
{
  "JsonResult": {
    "Command": "View.SetSorting",
    "AutoLoggedIn": false,
    "WebConsoleKey": "",
    "Result": "Success",
    "ErrorCode": "",
    "ErrorDescription": "",
    "ErrorList": [],
    "ExecutionTime": {
      "Ticks": 0,
      "Days": 0,
      "Hours": 0,
      "Milliseconds": 0,
      "Minutes": 0,
      "Seconds": 0,
      "TotalDays": 0,
      "TotalHours": 0,
      "TotalMilliseconds": 0,
      "TotalMinutes": 0,
      "TotalSeconds": 0
    }
  }
}
```