3307547 - Unable to sort Extension Field

Symptom

You have added an Extension Field in the UI, and you cannot sort this field from the OWL screen.

Environment

SAP Cloud for Customer
SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

Sample steps, it can be any workcenter:

Accounts Management workcenter
Accounts view
All Accounts, overview you have extended one Extension Field

For this field "Sort Ascending, Sort Descending" option is not available.

Cause

The Extension Field created as Extended Text in Adaptation Mode. For field created of type Extended Text, Sorting is disabled.

Resolution

Extended Text field type, Sorting is not supported. You need to create this field of type Text.

Keywords

Sorting, Extension Field Type, KUT field, sort , KBA , AP-RC-UIF-RT-B , ByD HTML5 Client (not for Cloud for Customer) , AP-RC-UIF-FLX , Page Layout & Key User Configuration , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions ; SAP Cloud for Customer core applications all versions