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Amber_Salyer
Amber_Salyer
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December 10, 2025
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Extended Collections

  • December 10, 2025
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I am using extended collections and they are appearing, but at first I thought it was alphabetical, so I updated my naming to include the “Drug” but then the order they appear in the dropdown seems completely random. How does this work? And can we make it more structured?

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    hummh
    hummh
    Active Member
    December 12, 2025

    Have the same problem. Looks like there is no sorting that you can influence available currently. It seems very random :-( Beside sorting it would also make sense to show the hierarchy in the dropdown as well to make it easier to use and understand the relationships. Currently its super hard to use.

      Chris_Lowery
      Chris_Lowery
      New Member
      February 5, 2026

      With an extended collection setup I am able to successfully export modes from parent but unable to export modes from the child. Is this a bug? Please advise.

      Kerry_Johnson
      Kerry_Johnson
      Active Member
      April 27, 2026

      I had hack my own solution, much like a lot of things in Figma  Using a whitespace character I was able to do:
      ‎

      ‎ ‎ ↳ Company
      ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎  ↳ App
      ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎  ↳ Web
      ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎  ↳ Mobile


       


      Thankfully, these names are tied to an extended collection ID that doesn’t change, so removing these whitespace and arrow characters in the future when they improve the display in the dropdown won’t break things.

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