Modern Tablist Sorting in Alphabetical Order All of a sudden

(6) Share

Report

Posted on by ST-24070323-0

113

Hi All,

I was using the Tablist and it was working properly until 23-July-2024. All of a sudden my Tablist started sorting the tabs in alphabetical order. I query my SharePoint list to get the tabs value and also have a order column in SharePoint that sorts it as per the order i need. When i set it to the items property in Modern tablist, the tablist does not follow the order. And sorts is alphabetically. This has happened all of a sudden. As soon as you add a Field value property in the tablist it orders it alphabetically. Even when you set manually your tablist Items Property to Table({TabName:"Home"},{TabName:"About Us"},{TabName:"Contact Us"}) and Field Property to TabName it sorts it alphabetically. Earlier this would not happen.

Please advice

Categories:

Building Power Apps

I have the same question (0)

All responses (18)

Answers (0)

CU24071315-1 5 on at

Like (1)

Report

Hello,

I just wanted to say I have this exact same issue and came to post about it when I noticed you'd already created one. My old apps which have not been re-published for a few months are still fine but one that I re-published today has suddenly developed this fault. My current workaround is to put numbers at the start of each tab name so it sorts it but this isn't great as it doesn't look nice and is completely unnecessary.

I hope this gets fixed soon.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
mmbr1606 14,605 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

Like (1)

Report

hey all

this is another example of buggy modern controls. most of them still in preview, i (and many others) wont suggest using them in productive apps. they can be buggy and cause issues in many places.

for now stick to classic controls and wait until the modern ones are finally ready to use.

If the Post help you solve your issue, please mark it as verified answer and give it a like so we can help other in the community with similar issues

Greetings

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
CU24071315-1 5 on at

Like (1)

Report

@mmbr1606

Thank you for your reply. According to Microsoft documentation, Tab list is no longer in preview so it should be fine for production use I would have thought? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
mmbr1606 14,605 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

Like (2)

Report

hey,

as of now i wont suggest using any of them because i have not really seen one that works 100% as it supposed to.

maybe this is a ressource that might help you:

Power Apps: Filter Gallery With A Tab List (matthewdevaney.com)

but in my point of view when it already worked and just recently started to be buggy it is connected to the modern controls i general and not a special issue ;)

If the Post help you solve your issue, please mark it as verified answer and give it a like so we can help other in the community with similar issues

Greetings

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Matt8 11 on at

Like (1)

Report

Same problem here for

- Tab List

- Creator Kit DetailsList

Order now as below:

- Alphabetic for TabList

- ID for Creator Kit DetailsList (instead of selected column name or SortBy column)

Seems the default code settings are wrong now or will not update:

---

Control: PowerApps_CoreControls_TabListTemplate_dataField

Variant: textualColumn

Properties:

FieldDisplayName: ="Value"

FieldName: ="Value"

FieldType: ="s"

Order: =1

---

Control: cat_PowerCAT.FluentDetailsListTemplate_dataField

Variant: textualColumn

Properties:

FieldDisplayName: ="ID"

FieldName: ="ID"

FieldType: ="n"

Order: =1

---

Version 3.24071.7 works fine yesterday.

Hope this will be fixed.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
edward_davis on at

Like (1)

Report

Same issues here, not affecting apps already in production but unable to change sort order when developing. Please sort this ASAP

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
CF-24071949-0 2 on at

Like (1)

Report

Encountering this issue as well using authoring version 3.24073 in an EU-West environment. Rolling back to 3.24072 seemed to fix it, but I'd like to avoid pinning to older versions for a new app that's still in active development. I don't know why they constantly roll out new versions when the feature/change list is blank.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Suggested answer

ST-24070323-0 113 on at

Like (4)

Report

Until Microsoft provides a fix for this. Here is a solution as of now. Firstly the issue is caused as soon as you add a value in the Field Property of your tab list control. If you add the Items manually directly in the Items Property it will not sort. If we get dynamic data from a datasource suppose SharePoint we would need to set the Field Property. Now keeping this in mind we need to somehow avoid setting the field property. And to do this we need to directly set the items property and have a column named Value. So if you are getting data from your datasource rename the column to value. Below is my example:

RenameColumns(varGetDataFromSharePoint.Title,Title,Value)

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
MB-25071505-0 8 on at

Like (1)

Report

I have the same issue in version 3.24073.20 (Canada). Rolling back to version 3.24072.14 corrects this.

My table is:

SortByColumns(
Table(
{Id:01,DocumentType:"Info",Label:"Property Information"}
,{Id:02,DocumentType:"News",Label:"All News"}
,{Id:03,DocumentType:"Mail",Label:"Email"}
,{Id:04,DocumentType:"Photos",Label:"Online Photos"}

,{ other entries}

)
,"Id",SortOrder.Ascending)

In the new versions, the items are ordered by Label, ignoring the SortByColumns.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Kathy_Sea 28 on at

Like (2)

Report

Hello,

I'm experiencing an issue with the TabList in the App Formula property. Whenever I publish a new app, the menu items sort alphabetically by default. This behavior disrupts the intended order of my menu.

I hope Microsoft addresses this soon or that someone in the community finds a solution that doesn't involve rolling back to a previous version.

For now, I am numbering my items to maintain the correct order. However, I'm also forced to use alphabetical characters to prevent the number 10 from appearing in the second position, which looks unprofessional.

Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No