This article explains how sequence order determines the display order of items and other entities.
What is Sequence Order?
The sequence order determines how items and other entities are displayed in lists. Each entity has a sequence number (a numerical value, e.g., 1, 2, 3, 100) that controls its position.
How Drag and Drop Affects Sequence Order
The items can be moved by dragging and dropping.
When an entity is dragged and dropped to a new position:
- The system updates only the sequence order of the moved entity
- It does not update the sequence order of all other entities
- The new sequence number is calculated based on the position where the entity is dropped
How the Calculation Works
When an entity is dropped:
- The system finds the prior entity (the one above where the entity was dropped)
- It assigns a sequence number one lower than the prior entity
Because only the moved entity's sequence is updated, it may be necessary to drag and drop twice to achieve the exact required order.
Avoid dragging items only once when reordering, as this may result in duplicate sequence numbers. Instead, perform a second drag to adjust the sequence of adjacent items and ensure proper ordering.
Example: If Item 02 is dragged to the top before Item 01, it gets sequence 99 (same as Item 01). To ensure proper ordering, also drag Item 01 down to update its sequence accordingly (so it gets sequenceOrder 100).
The sequence order can be activated by clicking on customize columns.
Click on Add column, add the sequenceOrder and click on Apply.
A new column will be added, allowing quick entity viewing by clicking on it. To adjust the order, change the sequenceOrder number and the display order will update accordingly.
The order of groups can also be changed by dragging and dropping, the group will be changed position when a blue strip appears to drop.
Please note that Features have sequenceFactor instead of sequenceOrder. When dragging features, all features below the dragged feature will have their sequence numbers updated automatically.