diff --git a/flaskinventory/flaskdgraph/utils.py b/flaskinventory/flaskdgraph/utils.py
index b445c3d..1d0a701 100644
--- a/flaskinventory/flaskdgraph/utils.py
+++ b/flaskinventory/flaskdgraph/utils.py
@@ -40,14 +40,14 @@ def validate_uid(uid: Any) -> Union[str, bool]:
 
 def restore_sequence(d: dict, sortkey = 'sequence') -> None:
     sortable_keys = list(filter(lambda x: x.endswith('|' + sortkey), d.keys()))
-    print('found the following predicates', sortable_keys)
     for facet in sortable_keys:
         predicate = facet.replace('|' + sortkey, '')
         if predicate not in d:
             # skip over edge attributes
             continue
-        print('restoring sequence for', predicate)
-        correct_sequence = [d[predicate][d[facet][k]] for k, v in d[facet].items()]
+        correct_sequence = list(range(len(d[predicate])))
+        for k, v in d[facet].items():
+            correct_sequence[int(v)] = d[predicate][int(k)]
         d[predicate] = correct_sequence
 
 def recursive_restore_sequence(l: list, sortkey = 'sequence') -> None:
diff --git a/tests/test_utils.py b/tests/test_utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cef738e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+import unittest
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    from sys import path
+    from os.path import dirname
+    from requests import HTTPError
+    import unittest
+
+    path.append(dirname(path[0]))
+
+from flaskinventory.flaskdgraph.utils import restore_sequence, recursive_restore_sequence
+
+class TestUtils(unittest.TestCase):
+    
+    def test_restore_sequence(self):
+        d = {'_authors_fallback': ['Author B', 'Author D', 'Author A', 'Author C'],
+             '_authors_fallback|sequence':
+                {'0': 1,
+                 '1': 3,
+                 '2': 0,
+                 '3': 2}}
+    
+        solution = ['Author A', 'Author B', 'Author C', 'Author D']
+        
+        restore_sequence(d)
+
+        self.assertListEqual(d['_authors_fallback'], solution)
+
+    def test_recursive_restore_sequence(self):
+        l = [{
+                '_authors_fallback': ['Author B', 'Author D', 'Author A', 'Author C'],
+                '_authors_fallback|sequence': {
+                    '0': 1,
+                    '1': 3,
+                    '2': 0,
+                    '3': 2}
+                },
+                {
+                '_authors_fallback': ['Author D', 'Author B', 'Author C', 'Author A'],
+                '_authors_fallback|sequence': {
+                    '0': 3,
+                    '1': 1,
+                    '2': 2,
+                    '3': 0}
+                },
+                {
+                '_authors_fallback': ['Author A'],
+                '_authors_fallback|sequence': {
+                    '0': 0}
+                },
+                {
+                '_authors_fallback': ['Author A']
+                }
+            ]
+    
+        solution = ['Author A', 'Author B', 'Author C', 'Author D']
+        recursive_restore_sequence(l)
+
+        self.assertListEqual(l[0]['_authors_fallback'], solution)
+        self.assertListEqual(l[1]['_authors_fallback'], solution)
+        self.assertListEqual(l[2]['_authors_fallback'], ['Author A'])
+
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main(verbosity=2)