# Pen ordering on Easy Charts

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pen-ordering-on-easy-charts/8030>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 20, 2014, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pen-ordering-on-easy-charts/8030 "2014-02-20T13:01:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ivan)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pen-ordering-on-easy-charts/8030/1 "2014-02-20T13:01:06Z")

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It would be nice to be able to order the pens manually throughout all 3 categories, other than with the Alphabetize option. It would allow to present them in a more meaningful way!

What do you think?

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**Author:** ![diat150](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@diat150](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/diat150)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pen-ordering-on-easy-charts/8030/2 "2014-02-20T14:37:57Z")

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you can do this thru script if you build the datasets.

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**Author:** ![Javachon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@Javachon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Javachon)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pen-ordering-on-easy-charts/8030/3 "2014-03-05T14:23:44Z")

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I agree. I simple order column in the underlying dataset would be nice to have.

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**Author:** ![Clkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@Clkman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Clkman)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pen-ordering-on-easy-charts/8030/4 "2014-03-10T20:31:54Z")

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That would be useful.

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**Author:** ![Watermark\_JS](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/watermark_js/32/32342_2.png) [@Watermark\_JS](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Watermark_JS)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pen-ordering-on-easy-charts/8030/5 "2014-04-25T00:37:09Z")

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+1 to pen ordering without scripting

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**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ivan)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pen-ordering-on-easy-charts/8030/6 "2014-06-23T07:28:10Z")

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If I’m not wrong, this feature is in 7.7, thanks!