diff --git a/packages/server/src/api/controllers/row/index.ts b/packages/server/src/api/controllers/row/index.ts
index 3e9a3d232b..3169e4f77c 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/api/controllers/row/index.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/api/controllers/row/index.ts
@@ -156,7 +156,14 @@ export async function searchView(ctx: Ctx<void, SearchResponse>) {
 
   ctx.status = 200
   ctx.body = await quotas.addQuery(
-    () => sdk.rows.search({ tableId, query: view.query || {} }),
+    () =>
+      sdk.rows.search({
+        tableId,
+        query: view.query || {},
+        sort: view.sort?.field,
+        sortOrder: view.sort?.order,
+        sortType: view.sort?.type,
+      }),
     {
       datasourceId: tableId,
     }
diff --git a/packages/server/src/api/routes/tests/row.spec.ts b/packages/server/src/api/routes/tests/row.spec.ts
index 98ec40c9ae..e6da42ef8c 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/api/routes/tests/row.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/api/routes/tests/row.spec.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ import {
   Row,
   Table,
   FieldType,
+  SortType,
+  SortOrder,
 } from "@budibase/types"
 import { generator, structures } from "@budibase/backend-core/tests"
 
@@ -694,12 +696,12 @@ describe("/rows", () => {
         schema: {
           name: {
             type: FieldType.STRING,
-            name: "Name",
+            name: "name",
             constraints: { type: "string" },
           },
           age: {
             type: FieldType.NUMBER,
-            name: "Age",
+            name: "age",
             constraints: {},
           },
         },
@@ -757,5 +759,66 @@ describe("/rows", () => {
         rows: expect.arrayContaining(expectedRows.map(expect.objectContaining)),
       })
     })
+
+    it.each([
+      [
+        {
+          field: "name",
+          order: SortOrder.ASCENDING,
+          type: SortType.STRING,
+        },
+        ["Alice", "Bob", "Charly", "Danny"],
+      ],
+      [
+        {
+          field: "name",
+        },
+        ["Alice", "Bob", "Charly", "Danny"],
+      ],
+      [
+        {
+          field: "name",
+          order: SortOrder.DESCENDING,
+        },
+        ["Danny", "Charly", "Bob", "Alice"],
+      ],
+      [
+        {
+          field: "name",
+          order: SortOrder.DESCENDING,
+          type: SortType.STRING,
+        },
+        ["Danny", "Charly", "Bob", "Alice"],
+      ],
+    ])("allow sorting", async (sortParams, expected) => {
+      await config.createTable(userTable())
+      const users = [
+        { name: "Alice", age: 25 },
+        { name: "Bob", age: 30 },
+        { name: "Charly", age: 27 },
+        { name: "Danny", age: 15 },
+      ]
+      for (const user of users) {
+        await config.createRow({
+          tableId: config.table!._id,
+          ...user,
+        })
+      }
+
+      const createViewResponse = await config.api.viewV2.create({
+        sort: sortParams,
+      })
+
+      const response = await request
+        .get(`/api/views/v2/${createViewResponse._id}/search`)
+        .set(config.defaultHeaders())
+        .expect("Content-Type", /json/)
+        .expect(200)
+
+      expect(response.body.rows).toHaveLength(4)
+      expect(response.body).toEqual({
+        rows: expected.map(name => expect.objectContaining({ name })),
+      })
+    })
   })
 })
diff --git a/packages/server/src/sdk/app/rows/search.ts b/packages/server/src/sdk/app/rows/search.ts
index 0a4886278a..c6d0e013fa 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/sdk/app/rows/search.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/sdk/app/rows/search.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { SearchFilters } from "@budibase/types"
+import { SearchFilters, SortType } from "@budibase/types"
 import { isExternalTable } from "../../../integrations/utils"
 import * as internal from "./search/internal"
 import * as external from "./search/external"
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ export interface SearchParams {
   bookmark?: string
   limit?: number
   sort?: string
-  sortOrder?: string
-  sortType?: string
+  sortOrder?: "ascending" | "descending"
+  sortType?: SortType
   version?: string
   disableEscaping?: boolean
 }
diff --git a/packages/types/src/documents/app/view.ts b/packages/types/src/documents/app/view.ts
index 7826cc06fd..c03bc3fe7f 100644
--- a/packages/types/src/documents/app/view.ts
+++ b/packages/types/src/documents/app/view.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-import { SortType } from "../../api"
-import { SearchFilters, SortDirection } from "../../sdk"
+import { SortOrder, SortType } from "../../api"
+import { SearchFilters } from "../../sdk"
 import { Document } from "../document"
 
 export interface View {
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ export interface ViewV2 extends Document {
   query?: SearchFilters
   sort?: {
     field: string
-    order?: SortDirection
+    order?: SortOrder
     type?: SortType
   }
 }