API call to set manual product sort order within a collection?

[Denizthemenace]

Hi,

can I set the manual sort order within a collection programmatically?

Thanks

Zin

[csam]

Hi @Denizthemenace 

You can add products to a manual collection via the API and specify the sort order with the position and sort_value fields. You should be able to have an app programatically add the products to a collection as long as you have them listed in the desired order on your end.

Here's a link to the relevant documentation - Collect is the endpoint that adds products to collections - https://shopify.dev/api/admin/rest/reference/products/collect

[cgregnanin]

Hi, can you provide me some examples?

I am trying but doesn't work

curl -d '{"collect":{"product_id":5015268524165,"collection_id":263249199237,"sort_value":"14"}}' -X POST "https://my-shop.myshopify.com/admin/api/2021-10/collects.json" -H "X-Shopify-Access-Token: shppa_380de19cc965XXXXXXaba" -H "Content-Type: application/json"

{"collect":{"id":28940172394629,"collection_id":263249199237,"product_id":5015268524165,"created_at":"2021-12-29T21:20:51+01:00","updated_at":"2021-12-29T21:20:51+01:00","position":7,"sort_value":"0000000007"}}%

[Koray]

Did you ever figure this out?  This does not work on my end either,

[jacksos101]

There seems to be two API endpoints that are made to reorder collections.

REST Api - Updates the ordering type of products in a smart collection

and 

GraphQL - collectionReorderProducts 

The REST endpoint seems to be broken when it comes to reordering products - don't waste your time with it. Ask it to move 20 products to the top of the collection, and you're lucky if it moves anything.

I'm testing the GraphQL endpoint now - hopefully it will work.

Something has to work, because the app 'Power Tools Suite' is able to shuffle collections randomly, and I think the above endpoints are the only ways that they could achieve this.