[Status: Launched 🚀] Order of custom fields in the folder/project/task view

Hi Angelos Gaitis, thank you for this suggestion! It's been passed on to the Product team.

Agreed! I had these fields set up in a way that worked for me. I do NOT need them alphabetically, if I did I would have set it up that way. I need them the way I originally had them setup. Please change it back, or give the option to reorder them. 

Ja ich stimme den Kollegen zu, in DE ist es auch notwendig die "custom fields" zu sortieren.
Eine alphabetische Sortierung macht wenig Sinn. Vielen Dank.

Hi Stephanie Miller and Ronald Otmar Theil, thank you for sharing your feedback here! 

Agree with the urgency and importance of the order of custom fields.

Alphanumerical order makes absolutely no sense because it does not cluster the custom fields that are related or relevant, nor does it help in displaying the most important batch for individual use cases (for project managers, portfolio managers, regional specialists, engineers, back offiice staff, branch mangers, etc.).

We have custom fields that are used globally by various use cases, local custom fields by country, custom fields that are only relevant to certain areas or regions, etc. So naming or numbering them in a consistent way across the whole account is not possible.

I've also commented on the original "Brough to you by Wrike" post: https://help.wrike.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360044203093--From-Wrike-Custom-Field-Update-?page=1#community_comment_360012067133

Please change it back! We also had our custom fields sorted logically, not alphabetically. Alphabetic may be useful in some situations but definitely not all. Giving users the option to use the default (alpha) sort or a custom sort would be optimal.

Thank you.

Thanks a lot for sharing your feedback on this, Carrie Warolin, I'm passing it on to the team! 

mdr

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When we originally setup our custom fields, we were advised that if we wanted to control the custom field arrangement on the project list view, use the table view and arrange columns.  We did this, and it had worked perfectly.  Now, the view has changed to alphabetically arranged and not helpful at all for us.  Please give clients back the ability to arrange the custom field views so that it reflects how their project teams need to see the data.  Thanks you for your consideration.

mdr

Hi Suzanne-Admin -Automation, 

Thank you for sharing your feedback, it's been shared with the Product team. The team are planning to review all custom fields-related feedback this quarter, so as soon as we have a further update to share, I'll be sure to let you know.

What's the status of allowing the admin to control the order in which custom fields are viewed on the project view like it used to be?

Are there any work arounds?

Hi Sue Otterstein, welcome to the Community! 🙂

No updates from the team at the moment. As Hugh mentioned above, we'll let you know once we hear news from the team. Thanks for reaching out! 

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This should be on FRONT burner not the back.

I find this feature is needed and have received complaints from my team about the ordering of customer fields confusing. Please add the ability to organize manually. 

The alphabetical order of these fields is quite messy and does not make sense in regards to grouping the things together that need to be together. Hugh mentioned this being a topic of discussion last quarter with your Product team. Do you have any updates on if and when this will be addresses?

I'm checking with the team now again Brittany Stringer, and if there are any updates, I'll make sure to let everyone know here! 

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Hi everyone! There's no update on this yet, but there might be one later as the team are finalizing their plans. I'll let you know once I have news for you! 

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I hope this makes it to the short list soon. This is SUPER annoying. We can't even use the "add number/letter prefix" trick to force alpha order because our fields are often shared in different projects. We need a display ordinal option.

Hi Joesph Hoffmann, thanks for adding your feedback and use case here. 

We've shared this with the team. As Lisa mentioned, we don't have any news to share on this one at the moment, but if that changes we'll be sure to let you know. 

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Please add the ability to organize manually +1

I too need to be able to arrange the custom fields in a logical manner that alphabetical order will not allow. Please accelerate this improvement, thanks. 

Thanks a lot for supporting this idea Kathlynn Hung, Kevin Harris 🤗

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Same for us! Please allow this again! Best

Thank you for letting us know your feedback Gaelle Sannia! 🙌

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We would also love to be able to reorder custom fields instead of having them in alphabetical order

Hello,

Please allow custom to facilitate a better organizational work flow. 

I have often wished I could rearrange the order of the custom fields.  Please make this possible.

Please add an OPTION to manually order the custom fields. We absolutely need the ability to manually order custom fields. Occasionally alphabetical is useful so we'd like to keep this as well, although the alphabetical scenario is rare.