diff --git a/demo-shell-ng2/app/components/activiti/activiti-demo.component.ts b/demo-shell-ng2/app/components/activiti/activiti-demo.component.ts
index 98125b3730..b2fec92f42 100644
--- a/demo-shell-ng2/app/components/activiti/activiti-demo.component.ts
+++ b/demo-shell-ng2/app/components/activiti/activiti-demo.component.ts
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ export class ActivitiDemoComponent implements AfterViewInit {
                 {type: 'text', key: 'started', title: 'Started', cssClass: 'hidden', sortable: true}
             ]
         );
+        this.dataProcesses.setSorting(new DataSorting('started', 'desc'));
 
         // Uncomment this line to replace all 'text' field editors with custom component
         // formRenderingService.setComponentTypeResolver('text', () => CustomEditorComponent, true);
diff --git a/ng2-components/ng2-activiti-processlist/src/components/activiti-processlist.component.spec.ts b/ng2-components/ng2-activiti-processlist/src/components/activiti-processlist.component.spec.ts
index 73582b1454..ca90dba508 100644
--- a/ng2-components/ng2-activiti-processlist/src/components/activiti-processlist.component.spec.ts
+++ b/ng2-components/ng2-activiti-processlist/src/components/activiti-processlist.component.spec.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Rx';
 import { ActivitiProcessInstanceListComponent } from './activiti-processlist.component';
 
 import { AlfrescoTranslationService, CoreModule } from 'ng2-alfresco-core';
-import { DataTableModule, ObjectDataRow, DataRowEvent, ObjectDataTableAdapter } from 'ng2-alfresco-datatable';
+import { DataTableModule, ObjectDataRow, DataRowEvent, ObjectDataTableAdapter, DataSorting } from 'ng2-alfresco-datatable';
 
 import { TranslationMock } from './../assets/translation.service.mock';
 import { ProcessInstance } from '../models/process-instance.model';
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ describe('ActivitiProcessInstanceListComponent', () => {
         });
 
         it('should reload the list when the sort parameter changes', (done) => {
-            const sort = 'desc';
+            const sort = 'created-desc';
             let change = new SimpleChange(null, sort);
 
             component.onSuccess.subscribe((res) => {
@@ -290,6 +290,21 @@ describe('ActivitiProcessInstanceListComponent', () => {
             component.ngOnChanges({'sort': change});
         });
 
+        it('should sort the list when the sort parameter changes', (done) => {
+            const sort = 'created-asc';
+            let change = new SimpleChange(null, sort);
+            let sortSpy = spyOn(component.data, 'setSorting');
+
+            component.onSuccess.subscribe((res) => {
+                expect(res).toBeDefined();
+                expect(sortSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(new DataSorting('started', 'asc'));
+                done();
+            });
+
+            component.sort = sort;
+            component.ngOnChanges({'sort': change});
+        });
+
         it('should reload the process list when the name parameter changes', (done) => {
             const name = 'FakeTaskName';
             let change = new SimpleChange(null, name);
diff --git a/ng2-components/ng2-activiti-processlist/src/components/activiti-processlist.component.ts b/ng2-components/ng2-activiti-processlist/src/components/activiti-processlist.component.ts
index d28f74b386..c7d83635bb 100644
--- a/ng2-components/ng2-activiti-processlist/src/components/activiti-processlist.component.ts
+++ b/ng2-components/ng2-activiti-processlist/src/components/activiti-processlist.component.ts
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 
 import { Component, Input, Output, EventEmitter, OnInit, OnChanges, SimpleChanges } from '@angular/core';
 import { AlfrescoTranslationService } from 'ng2-alfresco-core';
-import { ObjectDataTableAdapter, DataTableAdapter, DataRowEvent, ObjectDataRow } from 'ng2-alfresco-datatable';
-import { TaskQueryRequestRepresentationModel } from 'ng2-activiti-tasklist';
+import { ObjectDataTableAdapter, DataTableAdapter, DataRowEvent, ObjectDataRow, DataSorting } from 'ng2-alfresco-datatable';
+import { ProcessFilterRequestRepresentation } from '../models/process-instance-filter.model';
 
 import { ProcessInstance } from '../models/process-instance.model';
 import { ActivitiProcessService } from '../services/activiti-process.service';
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ export class ActivitiProcessInstanceListComponent implements OnInit, OnChanges {
     @Input()
     name: string;
 
-    requestNode: TaskQueryRequestRepresentationModel;
+    requestNode: ProcessFilterRequestRepresentation;
 
     @Input()
     data: DataTableAdapter;
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ export class ActivitiProcessInstanceListComponent implements OnInit, OnChanges {
         );
     }
 
-    private load(requestNode: TaskQueryRequestRepresentationModel) {
+    private load(requestNode: ProcessFilterRequestRepresentation) {
         this.processService.getProcessInstances(requestNode)
             .subscribe(
                 (response) => {
@@ -168,9 +168,25 @@ export class ActivitiProcessInstanceListComponent implements OnInit, OnChanges {
      */
     private renderInstances(instances: any[]) {
         instances = this.optimizeNames(instances);
+        this.setDatatableSorting();
         this.data.setRows(instances);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Sort the datatable rows based on current value of 'sort' property
+     */
+    private setDatatableSorting() {
+        if (!this.sort) {
+            return;
+        }
+        let sortingParams: string[] = this.sort.split('-');
+        if (sortingParams.length === 2) {
+            let sortColumn = sortingParams[0] === 'created' ? 'started' : sortingParams[0];
+            let sortOrder = sortingParams[1];
+            this.data.setSorting(new DataSorting(sortColumn, sortOrder));
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Select the first instance of a list if present
      */
@@ -226,10 +242,9 @@ export class ActivitiProcessInstanceListComponent implements OnInit, OnChanges {
         let requestNode = {
             appDefinitionId: this.appId,
             processDefinitionKey: this.processDefinitionKey,
-            text: this.name,
             state: this.state,
             sort: this.sort
         };
-        return new TaskQueryRequestRepresentationModel(requestNode);
+        return new ProcessFilterRequestRepresentation(requestNode);
     }
 }