# Sort order of projects in EAM Agent Tasks?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sort-order-of-projects-in-eam-agent-tasks/84186>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [January 12, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sort-order-of-projects-in-eam-agent-tasks/84186 "2024-01-12T13:24:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![hw79](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/838e76/32.png) [@hw79](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hw79)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sort-order-of-projects-in-eam-agent-tasks/84186/1 "2024-01-12T13:24:11Z")

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When trying to send a project to an agent, the sort order of the projects doesn't seem to make sense and is not sortable by the user. They're not alphabetical or by last modified, or even the order they were added to the gateway.

I know it sounds silly, but does anyone know what the ordering is?

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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:** [January 12, 2024, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sort-order-of-projects-in-eam-agent-tasks/84186/2 "2024-01-12T13:39:51Z")

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Probably the order of their key hashes in a java HashMap.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sort-order-of-projects-in-eam-agent-tasks/84186/3 "2024-01-12T17:06:14Z")

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Yeah, Phil's got it. It's a view of the keys in a ConcurrentHashMap.