# Status Chart Series Order

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/status-chart-series-order/61018>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80, vision\
**Created:** [June 21, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/status-chart-series-order/61018 "2022-06-21T16:21:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Jeremy\_Plunkett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@Jeremy\_Plunkett](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jeremy_Plunkett)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/status-chart-series-order/61018/1 "2022-06-21T16:21:13Z")

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Hello, is it possible to change the order of the series labels for the Vision status chart? It seems like they default to alphabetical order.

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**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/status-chart-series-order/61018/2 "2022-06-21T16:40:25Z")

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It actually uses the "Natural Ordering". See here for more info.

> [@Status Chart Y Axis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/status-chart-y-axis/38304/2):
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> Theoretically, it is possible, but I doubt that you are going to want to dig in that deep. The Status Chart uses the natural ordering of the series names (in either mode). So 0-9 will always be below alpha numeric characters and alpha numeric characters will be sorted in alphabetical order from bottom to top (e.g. A will be below B, Line 0 will be below Line A, etc.) This stems from the implementation of the [java.util.TreeMap](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/TreeMap.html). In theory you could implement your own extension of the StatusCha…

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**Author:** ![Jeremy\_Plunkett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@Jeremy\_Plunkett](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jeremy_Plunkett)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/status-chart-series-order/61018/3 "2022-06-21T16:53:21Z")

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Thank you very much for the info. I think I will leave it be then.