# Discover - ordering in text columns does not work

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-ordering-in-text-columns-does-not-work/242073>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 21, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-ordering-in-text-columns-does-not-work/242073 "2020-07-21T16:44:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moretti\_Edmar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/moretti_edmar/32/72528_2.png) [@Moretti\_Edmar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Moretti_Edmar)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-ordering-in-text-columns-does-not-work/242073/1 "2020-07-21T16:44:05Z")

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The option to sort fields does not work for text types. Upon inspecting the requisition, I noticed that the field type is marked as a number and should be as text.

This error did not occur in version 7.5.

7.7: erro

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/3/e351594cb6184853d277774d8ba9f29a48c34093.png)

7.5: ok

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/f/ef18d60e57e63abda77d0150071a2030e816f6d3.png)

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**Author:** ![matw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matw/32/13913_2.png) [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-ordering-in-text-columns-does-not-work/242073/2 "2020-07-31T09:50:31Z")

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Hi and welcome to our community!  
Thanks for this feedback, I can reproduce this. it seems to be a regression, will open an issue in our GitHub repo for that  
Best,  
Matthias

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**Author:** ![matw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matw/32/13913_2.png) [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-ordering-in-text-columns-does-not-work/242073/3 "2020-07-31T12:50:29Z")

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Here's the issue

> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/73928>
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> Kibana version:
> master, 7.x, user reported it started failing 7.7
> Describe the bug:
> Using a scripted field to sort by doesn't work when the...

Thanks for reporting,  
Matthias

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-ordering-in-text-columns-does-not-work/242073/4 "2020-08-28T12:50:33Z")

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