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Sorting display of results within Service Items' dropdown fields that obtain it's data from a custom object

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  • October 25, 2023
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I am looking for a way to ‘sort the order of displayed content’ (e.g. alphabetically) within a Service item’s dropdown field that gathers its information from a ‘custom object table’ 

It seems like it gets it’s order now from de table’s unique id, but of that I am not really sure, for I have seen sorders change as you add or remove (record-)lines to/ from the table. 

 

Dropdown field

 

Table Objectrecords:

Table Object fields configuration:

Current order of display: 

(Would prefer to display alphabetically, or in any order that I choose)

 

 

See also:

Sorting display of 'values' by choice within Dropdown fields that pull up their information from a custom object table | Freshworks Community

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Dev1
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  • September 6, 2024

Really wish there was some traction on this feature request in the last 10 months.

We need this feature to manage a dynamic value list which we source from an external homegrown solution.  Not being able to change away from the default sorting option (sorted by last modified record first) presents Usability issues in having a dynamic drop down in a ticket be sourced from a Custom Object.


Medic1334
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  • September 9, 2024

@alyssia.correa looks like we’ve cleared the 15 mark. Is this something that can be brought up for consideration now?


VBScab
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  • September 11, 2024

To me, it’s beyond belief that this functionality wasn’t built-in from the start!

Who on God’s green Earth presents users with information in a random order?

In my view, ALL drop-downs should be presented in alphabetical/numerical order.


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  • October 2, 2024

I’ve finally gotten far enough in my Freshservice journey to realize how much of a pain point this is. As others have stated, we have a custom dataset that we want to populate for our employees in a service catalog item but the display of values is sorted based on the record ID, which in our case presents values in reverse alphabetical order. This means we’d have to create our records in the reverse order within the custom object but this is just counterintuitive to how the dataset should work. You should really be able to sort the dataset however you want within the custom drop down field in the service item.


I would also love to see this feature implemented--any externally sourced custom object that is updated over time is going to end up in a weird order and it seems like allowing user-facing sort should be pretty trivial to implement.