When one overrides a variable, a re-ordering happens of the variables & prompts. This causes us to override variables we otherwise don't want to, in order to control the resulting UI ordering relative to other non-overridden variables. This puts our user interface at odds with our QB development design. I would like to see a decoupling of field/prompt ordering from inheritance.

I know variables defined in any given configuration can be reordered; but this does not help when your trying to re-order them relative to their ancestor definitions (can't re-order inherited variables).


One suggestion is a "prompt order" field in variable definition which can be set to a numeric value. When rendering the prompts during build creation GUI, QB would render the resulting variable prompts sorted by this "prompt order" such that the prompt ordering is decoupled from the variable inheritance and entirely controllable.