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Manually setting the order of fields and components on the application

Kirk Fatool

June 04, 2012 20:19

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The online application creation process was a little frustrating for two reasons;

One, once you enter all your custom info you cannot change or add to the order of terms without starting over. For example, I enter terms x, y, and z but I can't add term between x and y with out taking off y and z. Maybe a drag and drop or a button to change the order of selected terms?

Two, when i create a component they automatically list in alphabetical order. There is no way to change it. It would be great if I could order the online components in what ever way I wish.

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  Edward Estes June 08, 2012 13:30

  I would like to second everything that Kirk Fatool said on June 4. The arranging of fields in the application is frustrating. I would love to have a drag and drop option.

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  Sherry Mahon July 23, 2012 19:41

  Absolutely!

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  Nadine Bryant September 19, 2012 17:39

  Definitely need an easier way to edit an application / change field order, etc.  It is a very frustrating process having to go back and basically start over on some of the pages if something at the beginning of the document needs to be changed.

  Also, do not like how the fields are in alphabetical order.  Need to be able to arrange them manually.  Thank you!

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  Steve Sutcliffe March 13, 2013 01:15

  Has no one raised the concern about the history of the application form? If you remove some of those fields (say in a later revision of your application form or because you don't want to go through the effort of adding x & y again) those fields are gone from all your old application forms as well. It's a little disconcerting if you are hoping to keep all this data online.

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  Steve Sutcliffe March 13, 2013 01:36

  Same request here:

  https://support.populiweb.com/entries/20118728-Reorder-Fields-in-Application-Components

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  Sherry Mahon March 13, 2013 13:35

  My understanding was that the data is still behind the scene in the fields since you wouldn't delete the actual field but just the field in the application (or whatever form you make).  If you were to reorder the fields from x, y, z to y, x, z the info would still be there. 

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  Adam Sentz March 15, 2013 18:40

  Steve is right, this is a duplicate of https://support.populiweb.com/entries/20118728-Reorder-Fields-in-Application-Components