# Areas sort by level

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/areas-sort-by-level/38637>\
**Category:** Revit\
**Tags:** revit\
**Created:** [July 24, 2019, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/areas-sort-by-level/38637 "2019-07-24T07:51:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ka-wai.liu9ECQM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f05b48/32.png) [@ka-wai.liu9ECQM](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/ka-wai.liu9ECQM)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/areas-sort-by-level/38637/1 "2019-07-24T07:51:45Z")

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Hi,

I trying to sorting ascending these areas by level. However it’s not work,my way is wrong?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/9/c/9c5405210ce80c96a39f7e5d66362e4a50943552.png)

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**Author:** ![habdirad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecd19e/32.png) [@habdirad](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/habdirad)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 8:15am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/areas-sort-by-level/38637/2 "2019-07-24T08:15:55Z")

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List.SortIndexByValue needs numeric values to sort.

This should work:

 ![2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/9/4/944b17d90e462c8f6f8a35916970b1fb36eabdfa.png)

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**Author:** ![ka-wai.liu9ECQM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f05b48/32.png) [@ka-wai.liu9ECQM](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/ka-wai.liu9ECQM)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/areas-sort-by-level/38637/3 "2019-07-25T08:32:07Z")

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Thank you very much.