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Back into the CiviCRM fray after a while away...

Maybe I'm being a bit dim here.  I've searched through forums and issues and so on and whilst some come close, I cannot find an answer to this.

In the CiviCRM Profile definition screens there is a field for "weight" which, I presume, is meant to let you define the order in which particular Profile sections appear in any resultant form.  There does not appear to be a corresponding database column in the civicrm_uf_groups table.  And it indeed appears to have no effect - it looks to me as if the Drupal registration form is simply rendering the CiviCRM profiles in alphabetical order of their titles.

Is there meant to be a way of controlling the order they appear in?  It seems like quite a plausible use case.

I'm using CiviCRM 2.1.4 on Drupal 6.8

Cheers,

Jock

Will do - I don't think it matters on which side of the fence you look at it - there doesn't appear to be a "weight" field in the underlying table - so I presume it's not going to work anywhere.

I have of course got round it by lettering my profiles in the order I want them to appear, but I will file it if you like!

Cheers,

Jock

Weight is stored "by profile / entity instance" in the civicrm_uf_join table. (I know, weird naming ....).

So if profiles are "Used For" Drupal User Registration - there will be an entries in that table with the weight(s).

I just did a test in my local 2.2 install - and the Order I entered in each profile's settings does work to set the order in User Registration. Lower order (weight) appears above higher order in the user registration form.