Assumptions: Your D2WList page inherits from ERD2WListPage in Wonder (and if it doesn’t it should).

Apply a default sort order on the list with a rule that looks like this:

LH: task = 'list' and entity.name = 'User'
RH: defaultSortOrdering = ( "name",
"compareAscending" )

Class: com.webobjects.directtoweb.Assignment

Also available are:

compareAscending
compareCaseInsensitiveAscending
compareCaseInsensitiveDescending
compareDescending.