# Placeholder Sort

**URL:** <https://community.tulip.co/t/placeholder-sort/10567>\
**Category:** Support, Troubleshooting, & Help\
**Tags:** apps, record-placeholder\
**Created:** [February 12, 2024, 11:18pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/placeholder-sort/10567 "2024-02-12T23:18:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![da-noguchi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@da-noguchi](https://community.tulip.co/u/da-noguchi)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 11:18pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/placeholder-sort/10567/1 "2024-02-12T23:18:13Z")

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Hi all,

Is it possible to put the Placeholder in string order?  
I don’t remember at what point in time this happened.  
It would be useful to be able to sort both of the following images.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/1/1e8fca490cee082bc81a965a895206147be0d083.png)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/f/f04c39203d51159961756b77cad827eb02aa3c63.png)

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![John](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/john/32/4971_2.png) [@John](https://community.tulip.co/u/John)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/placeholder-sort/10567/2 "2024-02-13T16:29:34Z")

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Hi @da-noguchi, I understand the pain here. I’m not currently aware of a solution for sorting record placeholders, but I’m tagging in my colleagues @ychan164 and @Katie_Stakland, who think a lot about how to manage app building elements. I think they’d be interested to see this.

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**Author:** ![ychan164](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/ychan164/32/8740_2.png) [@ychan164](https://community.tulip.co/u/ychan164)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/placeholder-sort/10567/3 "2024-02-13T18:27:18Z")

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Hi @da-noguchi ,  
Thanks for sharing! This request is on the team’s radar, this isn’t the first time sorting and search have been suggested for the Records tab (see [related post](https://community.tulip.co/t/alphabetical-sorting-of-table-references-in-apps/9851) and another [here](https://community.tulip.co/t/ability-to-fold-table-record-reference-in-apps/9852))