# Single Select field values in alphabetical order

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/single-select-field-values-in-alphabetical-order/2813>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Created:** [May 18, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/single-select-field-values-in-alphabetical-order/2813 "2022-05-18T14:18:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eugene\_Vabishchevich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/eugene_vabishchevich/32/4310_2.png) [@Eugene\_Vabishchevich](https://community.fibery.io/u/Eugene_Vabishchevich)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/single-select-field-values-in-alphabetical-order/2813/1 "2022-05-18T14:18:58Z")

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Sometimes we add new values to a single select field. We want to make values in alphabetical order. On additional switch will be very helpful. See a proposal and an example from Salesforce implementation.

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Salesforce

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/single-select-field-values-in-alphabetical-order/2813/2 "2022-05-18T14:29:14Z")

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Is it too inconvenient to manually reorder them with drag and drop?

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**Author:** ![Eugene\_Vabishchevich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/eugene_vabishchevich/32/4310_2.png) [@Eugene\_Vabishchevich](https://community.fibery.io/u/Eugene_Vabishchevich)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/single-select-field-values-in-alphabetical-order/2813/3 "2022-05-18T14:37:23Z")

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Yes, if you have 10+ values and add several new ones.

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/single-select-field-values-in-alphabetical-order/2813/4 "2022-05-18T14:39:57Z")

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Would you want the reordering to be an action you trigger as needed, or do you need it to be a toggle (so that you can switch back to the original, manually defined order)?

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**Author:** ![Eugene\_Vabishchevich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/eugene_vabishchevich/32/4310_2.png) [@Eugene\_Vabishchevich](https://community.fibery.io/u/Eugene_Vabishchevich)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/single-select-field-values-in-alphabetical-order/2813/5 "2022-05-18T14:49:31Z")

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A simple alphabetical order on the save field setting would be enough. **Just wanted to highlight** – the solution from Salesforce with the checkbox looks very odd because the system doesn’t save the checkbox state in the database. I guess, it should be some better UI solution. Maybe a button “Reorder alphabetically” or something similar.

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/single-select-field-values-in-alphabetical-order/2813/6 "2022-05-18T16:56:01Z")

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So the checkbox is just a ui control for triggering? If you check and then uncheck, what happens?