# Sort Perspective Components in Project Browser

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sort-perspective-components-in-project-browser/88902>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [April 16, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sort-perspective-components-in-project-browser/88902 "2024-04-16T15:03:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joshua\_Myers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@Joshua\_Myers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Joshua_Myers)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sort-perspective-components-in-project-browser/88902/1 "2024-04-16T15:03:50Z")

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Good morning,

Does anyone know if there is a way to sort all of your components in the Project Browser in Persepective? I have a large overview view built in a coordinate container and it would be nice if as I renamed my components, they were sorted in alphabetical order.

Is this possible? Is it a setting I've missed somewhere?

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**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sort-perspective-components-in-project-browser/88902/2 "2024-04-16T15:05:31Z")

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I believe it's sorted by z order.

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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:** [April 16, 2024, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sort-perspective-components-in-project-browser/88902/3 "2024-04-16T15:08:08Z")

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The order of components in Perspective has semantic significance, including for Z order in coordinate containers, occurrence order in a flex container, etc.

So you have to rearrange the components to get a different ordering in the project browser.

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**Author:** ![Joshua\_Myers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@Joshua\_Myers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Joshua_Myers)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sort-perspective-components-in-project-browser/88902/4 "2024-04-16T16:27:31Z")

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Gotcha. Was hoping to be able ot make it a little easier for someone coming behind me to work on the application but I'm not going to take the time to arrange the components alphabetically in Z order. Thanks for the info!