How to get Planner task checklist items sorted correctly?

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I am using the following simple set of actions to get the checklist items of a Planner task (which are then sent to a List field):

However for some reason the result is putting the checklist items into a strange order:

To clarify, I don't want the items in alphabetical order but just in the same order that they were in in the Planner task, since otherwise this information will be very confusing. How can I do this?

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JulioRF 2 on at

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I had the exact same problem, a few minutes ago I found out that the items will show alphabetically based on the id. My list showed correctly after adding a trailing A, B, C:

I did this right where I created the checklist, in the Update task details' block.

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Hello. The display order of checklist items is influenced by the orderHint property of each item. I'm working with GraphAPI via PowerShell to copy plans/tasks/checklists. When copying checklists, I just found that appending " !" (space exclamation) to the original orderHint maintains the order in which checklist items appear on the screen. Maybe this will help via PowerAutomate as well.

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