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Field drop down in form not defaulting to alphabetical order

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Posted on by Community Member Microsoft Employee

I've added a new field to an existing form and for some reason when selecting a value from this form the dropdown list doesn't default to alphabetical order. As you can see here: (Strangely, when there is already a value assigned to the Timesheet setup field the dropdown list is sorted).

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Also when I click a different dropdown from the same form the form it is sorted by default as you can see here:

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These fields are from the same data source so I'm not totally sure what I'm missing.

Thanks in advance.

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RE: Field drop down in form not defaulting to alphabetical order

That did it - I didn't have the primary index on the table set.

Also used this thred to help with that: community.dynamics.com/.../163432
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RE: Field drop down in form not defaulting to alphabetical order

Is it a string field? Is it in the primary index.

In the worst case, you could create a custom lookup method or a form, but it's clearly not ideal.

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