Reorder variable collections list

This thing is such a pain.
Came here to find a solution for this & it looks like it hasn’t been solved yet.

How is this a share an idea ticket? To me it really feels likes its a bug, or at the very least a missed feature.

It’s not a feature request to ask for the order of shown collection inside the usage panel to be the same as in the creation variable panel. I keep seeing this trend to drown bug reports in “feature ideas” to be voted, and absolutely never implemented after dying in some backlog somewhere.

Also just ran into this issue, newish library and as I’ve been adding primitives and tokens, me and my designers are leaning towards grabbing whatever they see first instead of scrolling all the way down to the tokens section. Agree that this is more of a UX bug. A fix would be awesome and help a lot!

Agreed, I personally view this as a bug and not an “idea” or “feature request”. My designers pick the “wrong” tokens all the time because they grab the first thing they see like @Hragatron mentioned

As much as I want to see this issue fixed, ie. give us the control to reorder collections, and not just by renaming to use alphabetical or numerical ordering, I just wanted to understand why it worked the way it does, and what the logic is behind the current behavior. I think I figured it out.

The order of the collections within the window where you would apply them, whether color or number, is determined by the amount of variables within that collection. They are ordered from least to most.

Still just want to see this fixed though.

To me it sounds like a bug with an easy fix… because it sounds the collections are sort by ID and not alphabeticaly at the very least.

@Josh The “Selection Colors” module is also a disaster area.

This works for files that access vars in external library, but does not seem to work within the library it’s self.

Am I missing something?

I made it in the same library… is it not your case? They have a default sorting by last updated, or at least it is what I think…

Crazy…
The local variables feature looks like an Adobe product.