# Kanban Save Order repeats
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/kanban-save-order-repeats/86294
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [February 9, 2026, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/kanban-save-order-repeats/86294 "2026-02-09T17:50:15Z")
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/kanban-save-order-repeats/86294/1 "2026-02-09T17:50:15Z")
Does anybody have any knowledge, particularly from Glide’s side, about how the Kanban Save Order (Index) functionality works? I occasionally run into issues with cards being assigned a Save Order that matches existing cards in the same Group. Let’s just say it causes undesirable results.. New cards are bumped below the other cards with the same Save Order instead of defaulting to the top of the group, and I can’t properly reorder them. Seems that the only way to break it out of that state is to move all cards to a different group and then back again. Seems like a bug as I’ve encountered it a few times in the past? If I understood the logic of how the values are assigned, I could figure out if there is a certain order of events causing it to happen.
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### Author:  [@NFNHello](https://community.glideapps.com/u/NFNHello)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/kanban-save-order-repeats/86294/2 "2026-02-09T22:28:33Z")
Oh that’s interesting! I’ve always wondered how this works too.
I’ve only ever had 3 or 4 digit values in my save order columns, I guess I rarely have many items in a list. And my values usually start with a ‘W’, ‘U’, or ‘V’.
I just made a bunch of test entries in a test app and found two things. One, the second character seems to be related to the column. And B, the more records I add, the more the values have repeating characters in the middle of the value, ‘W’s seem to have zeros, and ‘U’s seem to have ‘z’s next to them. 🤷♂️
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 11:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/kanban-save-order-repeats/86294/3 "2026-02-09T23:55:37Z")
Yeah, it’s definitely cryptic. I use the kanban to manage individual projects, so I’m continuously moving cards around. Each group is a status level. Most projects start out in the ‘Working On’ group and then move along from there. Then within each group are individual projects. Cards move from group to group as the status changes and sometimes I reorganize cards in the same group depending on priority. I have to wonder if there is a point where there is a max value for the Save Order and I happen to bump into that sometimes. Wish I understood how it was designed to work, or if it used values that made more sense. One advantage is that the Save Order structure allows me to calculate and apply a number to each card (#1, #2, #3, etc.). When I move the cards around the Save Order value is in alphanumeric order, so sorting of cards applies correctly and the numbers update accordingly.
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