Is it possible to have a link rule with a sort order?

Question 

Is it possible to have a link rule with a sort order?

Scenario

I have many items / products included by link rule into a section and it would be great if they could be sorted in ascending order by article number.

Answer

At the moment, there is not an automatic feature for having Link Rules with a sort order. However you can manually create a sort order. 
The search order is determined by the system ID, which means that entities will always be ordered in the order that they were created.

You can see this system ID (sys_id) in the URL of your browser window, or in the excel-document if you export an entity. For example:

You can sort entities manually by using the sort-card-view.

Further reading  

Link rule

Self-configuring nodes

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