Sort Illustrator artboards alphabetically - by OMOTI

artboard_sort.js

/**
  Kudos to OMOTI 
  https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/script-to-sort-artboard-list-alphabetically/m-p/9558396?page=1#M77799 
 */
function sortArtboard() {  
    var doc = app.activeDocument,  
        properties = [],  
        i,  
        max;  
  
    function copyProperties(source) {  
        var props = {},  
            key;  
        for (key in source) {  
            try {  
                props[key] = source[key];  
            } catch (e) {  
            }  
        }  
        return props;  
    }  
  
    function pasteProperties(source, destination) {  
        var key;  
        for (key in source) {  
            destination[key] = source[key];  
        }  
    }  
  
    function compareName(a, b) {  
        var comparison = 0;  
        if (a.name > b.name) {  
            comparison = 1;  
        } else if (a.name < b.name) {  
            comparison = -1;  
        }  
        return comparison;  
    }  
  
    for (i = 0, max = doc.artboards.length; i < max; i += 1) {  
        properties.push(copyProperties(doc.artboards[i]));  
    }  
  
    properties.sort(compareName);  
  
    for (i = 0, max = doc.artboards.length; i < max; i += 1) {  
        pasteProperties(properties[i], doc.artboards[i]);  
    }  
  
}  
  
sortArtboard();