# Sort Order in queries
**URL:** https://community.silverbullet.md/t/sort-order-in-queries/4365
**Category:** Lua
**Created:** [September 10, 2026, 1:05pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/sort-order-in-queries/4365 "2026-09-10T13:05:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@greencow](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/greencow)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2026, 1:05pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/sort-order-in-queries/4365/1 "2026-09-10T13:05:34Z")
run this query to pull all meetings but it lists them oldest first... how can I just the sort order
${query[[
from p = tags.mtg
select templates.pageItem(p)
order by ?????
]]}
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### Author:  [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2026, 1:31pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/sort-order-in-queries/4365/2 "2026-09-10T13:31:43Z")
This should do it:
```auto
${query[[
from p = tags.mtg
order by p.lastModified desc
select templates.pageItem(p)
]]}
```
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### Author:  [@greencow](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/greencow)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2026, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/sort-order-in-queries/4365/3 "2026-09-10T18:29:48Z")
thank you. works... is there a resource that explains the objects and their properties so I can figure out these queries myself?
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### Author:  [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2026, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/sort-order-in-queries/4365/4 "2026-09-10T18:39:59Z")
Generally there's this for pages: [page](https://silverbullet.md/Object/page) but it's not super in depth. It does show an example query with all default attributes though.