Hi, I am using sorttextarray(pv!test, false) to sort a list of text

This is because they are lower case (k,l,s instead of K, L, S). It is sorting capitals before lowercase

is there a way to fix that without changing the (k,l,s) to uppercase?

@sathisht How about using sort()?

sort({"Tammy Page","Teresa Croce","kalpana.mayuluri","Thane S Thurmond","Thomas Zebovitz","Tina M Walker","VANAND","Vanee Komolprasert","Vivian M Gilliam","WTROTTER","Weifeng Li","kalpana.mayuluri","Ischlappal","sathish.thulukanam"}) => Ischlappal; kalpana.mayuluri; kalpana.mayuluri; sathish.thulukanam; Tammy Page; Teresa Croce; Thane S Thurmond; Thomas Zebovitz; Tina M Walker; VANAND; Vanee Komolprasert; Vivian M Gilliam; Weifeng Li; WTROTTER

FYI, reverse(sort()) gives you descending order.

no, sort() dint work , it does the same thing.

We have a shared component for this : forum.appian.com/.../summary

Try it once. I think this will solve your issue

@sathisht Would you please be able to elaborate on how you have been trying to implement the sorting? It has worked well for me, when I did a quick test in the expression editor.

I have a process variable(test) which can hold multiple text values retrieved and saved through a DB call ,then I tried to use "=sort(pv!test)" in the drop down
Note: I am using portal interface in 7.11 version appian

@sathisht Can you configure the attributes of Dropdown as follows and test once again:

Display Label: sort(pv!test)
Value: sort(pv!test)

I am assuming that pv!test holds {"Tammy Page","Teresa Croce","kalpana.mayuluri","Thane S Thurmond","Thomas Zebovitz","Tina M Walker","VANAND","Vanee Komolprasert","Vivian M Gilliam","WTROTTER","Weifeng Li","kalpana.mayuluri","Ischlappal","sathish.thulukanam"} and tested the usecase on the same assumption in portal form of 16.1.

That worked fine for me and the output was exactly as mentioned above by me. Still if this doesn't work, it would be good if you can attach a screenshot of Dropdown configuration in your form.

it worked , thanks @sikhivahans

Glad to hear that..!