How to get pages ordered by creation date?

Hello,

we are planning to import about 50 Framemaker books with much more than 1,000 topics (pages) via WebWorks ePublisher in Confluence. After an import sub-pages are in alphabetical order instead of the correct logical order in Framemaker due to Confluence restricted default sorting order. In the face of much more than 1,000 pages a manual resort is no (good) option. I tried to use the page tree macro of Atlassian in the left side navigation pane by creating a page named _SvNavigation having the following content:

<ac:structured-macro ac:name="pagetree"><ac:parameter ac:name="sort">creation</ac:parameter><ac:parameter ac:name="root"><ac:link><ri:page ri:content-title="Income Home" /></ac:link></ac:parameter></ac:structured-macro>

Unfortunately this results in losing the version control in the navigation pane and displaying the versions of a page as sub-pages.

How do you handle the alphabetical sorting after mass imports? The problem applies to the default Word import too.

Thanks in advance, Matthias