I’ve wanted to be able to control the sort order of menu and menuitems in the customadmin.xml (or equivalent) file for quite a while but hadn’t found how to do it. Only today did I find the ability, I believe it’s a FarCry 5+ feature which was why I didn’t see it before.

The answer is simple, just add a “sequence” attribute to your menu or menuitem tag:

<menu mergeType="merge" sequence="1" id="farcry_studentsonlineadminSubSection" label="Homepage Content" labelType="value">
	<menuitem id="boardlinks" sequence="1" label="Board Links" link="/admin/customadmin.cfm?module=customlists/boardlinks_data.cfm" />
	<menuitem id="boardlinks_sort" sequence="2" label="Board Links Sort Order" link="/admin/customadmin.cfm?module=customlists/boardlinks_sort.cfm" />
	<menuitem id="calendar" sequence="3" label="Calendar" link="/admin/customadmin.cfm?module=customlists/lu_calendar.cfm" />
	<menuitem id="faq" sequence="4" label="FAQ's" link="/admin/customadmin.cfm?module=customlists/lu_faq.cfm" />
</menu>

You can read more cool things you can do with your custom objectadmin on the FarCry docs site.