Change order of choices taken from table reference - CSM

[Archana33]

I have a variable of type 'List Collector', type specification is taken from country table. I want to show a particular country as the first option in the drop down list. Is it possible. Please help.

[Mark Manders]

You could try with an advanced reference qualifier and use a script like below. Not sure what it will do to performance though:

(function() {
    var query = "name!=United States^ORDERBYname"; // This query excludes 'United States' and orders the rest alphabetically by name.
    var countries = new GlideRecord('sys_country'); // Assuming 'sys_country' is the name of the country table.
    countries.addEncodedQuery(query);
    countries.query();
    var result = "name=United States"; // Start with 'United States' at the top.
    while (countries.next()) {
        result += "^ORname=" + countries.name; // Append other countries ordered by name.
    }
    return result;
})();

I took 'United States' as an example and I have difficulty waking up my PDI, so not sure if it works.