# Tree View Control Item Order

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tree-view-control-item-order/5075>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 29, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tree-view-control-item-order/5075 "2012-08-29T23:09:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jonathan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jonathan)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tree-view-control-item-order/5075/1 "2012-08-29T23:09:37Z")

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Is there a way to control the order items are displayed in the tree view component? I have unchecked the Auto Sort property, but it still is sorting alphabetically by the path.

Thank you,

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tree-view-control-item-order/5075/2 "2012-08-29T23:13:13Z")

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I will put a ticket in for that. It is sorting the leaf nodes from the order in the dataset but not the folders.

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**Author:** ![DarrenAsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@DarrenAsh](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/DarrenAsh)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tree-view-control-item-order/5075/3 "2012-09-12T15:58:07Z")

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I believe this is the same issue I am having. I have created a database table for the dataset and added columns to control the order I want the tree view to appear in, yet it is still sorting alphabetically, even though the dataset is sorted the way I would like it to display.

I have also unchecked the Auto Sort behavior.

Ignition Platform 7.5.2 (b1146)  
Vision Module 6.5.2 (b662)  
Java Version 1.6.0\_35-b10

Thanks,

Darren

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**Author:** ![greg.simpson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/greg.simpson/32/3135_2.png) [@greg.simpson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/greg.simpson)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tree-view-control-item-order/5075/4 "2012-09-12T21:19:01Z")

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There is still a ticket in the system for this.