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more of a back end question.

Using a drop down field type that is populating the menu from another channel field. only problem is that t populates by entry number.

Was hoping to populate alphabetically? there aren’t a lot of alpha options in EE that I know of.

on a related question. If EE does not have an populate Alpha solution, can i use EE Tag pairs in the field to populate the list. Example:

Manually populate list:

{exp:channel:entries channel="channel" orderby="title" sort="asc"}
{title}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Hi Jerseyjones,

I can confirm that yes it does indeed look like it’s sorting by entry_id. I’m not too sure why that was chosen so let me ask the rest of the team and see what they have to say about it.

As to manually populating the list like that using a tag pair there is no built-in method to do that I’m afraid.

There was a 3rd party add-on for 1.x which allowed for this type of thing but I’m not sure if it was ever ported across to 2.x and I’m not sure if any other 3rd party offerings allow for this.

Let me find out from the team as to why it sorts by entry_id and not title and I’ll come right back to you.

It may be that you will have to put in a Feature Request to ask for this to work in this way.

Thanks.

Mark

Hi Jerseyjones,

I’ve had a word with the team and this is working the way it is supposed to so if you’d like it to sort by title instead you can go ahead and add a Feature Request if you want. Definitely seems like a good one to me.

Is that okay? Is there anything else we can help with today?

Thanks.

Mark

Hi Mark,

Do you know if this has been resolved yet?

Hi cliffdangler,

As of ExpressionEngine 2.5.2 this feature still sorts entries by entry ID and there is no option for title.

Fee free to add your voice to the Feature Request!

Cheers,

Hi cliffdangler,

As of ExpressionEngine 2.5.2 this feature still sorts entries by entry ID and there is no option for title.

Fee free to add your voice to the Feature Request!

Cheers,

It would make a lot more sense to sort alphabetically by the selected field name or have a sort option.

Hey all,

I am glad to see that Dan was able to help you out!

Feel free to file that Feature Request.

If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,