# How to prevent table sorting?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-prevent-table-sorting/2483>\
**Category:** Archived Topics\
**Created:** [January 5, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-prevent-table-sorting/2483 "2011-01-05T13:33:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![cezipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@cezipper](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cezipper)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-prevent-table-sorting/2483/1 "2011-01-05T13:33:30Z")

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I don’t want the user to be able to change the order of the records. Is there a way to disable that feature? I am currently putting labels over the column headers so they can not click on the header, but I was hoping there is a better way. I am running Factory PMI version 3.3.3

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-prevent-table-sorting/2483/2 "2011-01-05T16:35:21Z")

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There is not a way to accomplish this in FactoryPMI. However, in Ignition you can choose which columns are allowed to sort on.