Today I got a question from a user that needed to change the Column ordering in his SharePoint list. To his surprise (and at first to mine as well) the link named Column Ordering in List Settings was not there. In his other list they shows up fine.
What we first tested was to see if the settings page worked at all and it did. This test was done by manually adding formEdt.aspx?List=[Your list guid] to the URL and everything worked fine.
We then found out that SharePoint removes this option, quite logically after you have set the list to “Allow management of content types”. This is done under Advanced Setting in List Settings. If you set that to No, the link will show up again.
This is because when you select to use Content Types in your list the columns becomes a new custom Content type. And If you need to have the content type then you need to change the Column order through the Content type. It’s basically just moved into the Content Type settings.
Wow, I was going crazy trying to figure out what happened to the Column Ordering linkl. Thanks so much for putting this tip up!
What a lifesaver! I had growing list with over 25 columns, and the inability to re-order the columns was making it a nightmare for users. Thank you thank you thank you for this!
Glad to be able to help.
Thanks. This worked for me. 1st time I have had this issue but this fixed it. Thanks!