# Perspective Property Editor always messes up the order of objects lists

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [November 24, 2021, 11:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-property-editor-always-messes-up-the-order-of-objects-lists/53454 "2021-11-24T23:04:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![ToMakPo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tomakpo/32/23875_2.png) [@ToMakPo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ToMakPo)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 11:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-property-editor-always-messes-up-the-order-of-objects-lists/53454/1 "2021-11-24T23:04:33Z")

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Why does the order of the items in an object list always get messed up? For example, in this list of items, it’s supposed to be node0, node1, node2; but it changed it to node2, node0, node1.  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/4/a/4a01e49d885903bfbfbc813abfb4f2663028d2c8.png)

If it took my list that was entered in a non-alphabetized way and it alphabetized it, that would be a little annoying, but it would at least make since, But it’s not even doing that. It is seemingly putting them in a pretty random order.

Why does it do this and is there a way to avoid it?

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 11:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-property-editor-always-messes-up-the-order-of-objects-lists/53454/2 "2021-11-24T23:31:49Z")

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Most dictionary objects in both Java and Python are unordered. Or more specifically, ordered by the pseudo-random hash function that makes lookups efficient. Sorry. You can’t avoid it and it isn’t likely to change anytime soon. (It would cost in performance.)

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**Author:** ![ToMakPo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tomakpo/32/23875_2.png) [@ToMakPo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ToMakPo)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-property-editor-always-messes-up-the-order-of-objects-lists/53454/3 "2021-11-24T23:37:36Z")

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Thank you for letting me know.