Sort order for Sharepoint API “GET sites?search=*”.

Question

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/search-concept-sort

From the above site, we can determine that the “GET sites?search=*” API does not support sorting.

However, the “GET sites?search=&orderby=name” API has changed the sort order compared to the “GET sites?search=” API. So I have two questions.

(1) In what order is “GET sites?search=*” sorted?

(2) In what order is “GET sites?search=*&orderby=name” sorted?

Answer 1

Hi @Ayase Morita,

The GET sites?search=* API does not support sorting, and thus the order of the results is not explicitly defined in the documentation. By default, it may return results in an order that is determined by the underlying system, which is typically based on relevance or other internal criteria.

On the other hand, the GET sites?search=*&orderby=name API sorts the results in ascending order based on the name property of the sites. This means that the sites will be returned alphabetically from A to Z.

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