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Chris Foot 4 posts 95 karma points

Jul 13, 2017 @ 13:44
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Ordering fields from a form record
I am currently trying to develop a front-end for viewing entries to one of the forms in our umbraco forms system. Unfortunately, I can't seem to work out how to get the fields ordered the same way as they are in the front end. I've got the following code:
```
     @{
 var record = Library.GetApprovedRecordsFromForm(formId).Items.First(x => x.Id == recordId);
}

        @foreach (var recordField in record.RecordFields)
        {
            <div class="input-group contour">
                <label class="input-group-label">@recordField.Value.Field.Caption</label>
                <input type="text" disabled="disabled" class="input-group-field input-group-display" value="@recordField.Value.ValuesAsString(false)" />

            </div>            
        }
```
This does produce output but it seems to sort in a completely random order. I've seen examples using .OrderBy(r => r.Value.Field.PageIndex) but this property no longer seems to exist!

Can anyone offer any suggestions as to how to get this working?

Thanks

Chris
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Alex Skrypnyk 6176 posts 24187 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Jul 13, 2017 @ 16:14

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Hi Chris

It looks like it's a bug:

http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/CON-878

Thanks,

Alex

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Chris Foot 4 posts 95 karma points

Jul 13, 2017 @ 16:19

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Ahh, open since February too, guess it's not going to be fixed any time soon! Oh well...

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Alex Skrypnyk 6176 posts 24187 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Jul 13, 2017 @ 16:25

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By the way, maybe Umbraco Forms 6 hasn't this bug?

What version are you using?

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Chris Foot 4 posts 95 karma points

Jul 14, 2017 @ 08:38

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Hi Alex,

Good catch, i'm not on 6! I just installed it yesterday through the forms page in the backend so assumed I had the latest version but we're on umbraco 7.5.x so only got the v4 of forms! Looks like i've got some upgrading to do!

Thanks for your help

Chris

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Alex Skrypnyk 6176 posts 24187 karma points MVP 8x admin c-trib

Jul 14, 2017 @ 08:39

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You are welcome, Chris. Have a great weekend.

Thanks,

Alex

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Chris Foot 4 posts 95 karma points

Jul 18, 2017 @ 09:10

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Nope, still an issue in 6. It still brings them back in a random order. It wouldn't be a problem if they were in the same order as in the backend!

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Aaron Yarborough 2 posts 75 karma points

Jul 24, 2018 @ 13:39
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I was experiencing this issue running Umbraco Forms 6.0.8. I managed to work around it however after finding out that calling the GetForm() message on an instance of Form will return the fields in the correct order.

Annoyingly, the field instances under Form.AllFIelds don't hold values for their Values property so you still have to use RecordStorage to get the values.

This is what I ended up writing:
```
public static IEnumerable<RecordField> GetRecordValues(Guid recordUniqueId)
{
    using (var formStorage = new FormStorage())
    using (var recordStorage = new RecordStorage())
    {
        var record = recordStorage.GetRecordByUniqueId(recordUniqueId);
        var form = record.GetForm();

        var orderList = form.AllFields.Select(x => x.Alias).ToList();
        return record.RecordFields.Select(x => x.Value)
            .OrderBy(x =>orderList.IndexOf(x.Alias));
    }
}
```
Hope this helps!
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Nurhak Kaya 55 posts 149 karma points MVP 3x c-trib

Nov 02, 2020 @ 21:29

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Nice one Aaron, you have helped me! Thanks. #h5yr

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John Dawson 24 posts 135 karma points

May 18, 2021 @ 11:08

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Been having this issue myself and just found this thread. Will try Aaron's solution, but is this a bug that hasn't been fixed since 2017?

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