What is mean the 'order' field in any form?

[RathnamalaH]

Hi team,

As per my attachment, what is meant by the order field?  

I've read some comments here, and everyone mentioned that order is used to mention the position/ precedence of the variable (like an index of the item in an array data type in programming languages)  in a variable set. Still, I do not understand clearly how the order field works in forms

Can anyone please clarify this with clear terms?

Thanks.

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@RathnamalaH 

not much use but customers can add their own process around that field.

For example on incident tasks the order can tell in which sequence those are to be fulfilled.

good explanation here

"Order" field. What does it mean? 

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[Deepak Negi]

The significance of the "Order" field is similar to how it is being used in the technical components.

e.g If an Incident has related Child Incident Tasks then this order field can determine in which sequence the Tasks should be completed.

[RathnamalaH]

@Deepak Negi @Ankur Bawiskar  Thanks for your response.  As per your order, it is just used to mention the order of the tasks / it just determines the sequence of the tasks, which means why the default value is 100 and it's increased by multiples of 100 only. Why the order will not start from 1?

[Deepak Negi]

In other places the default value of the Order field is 100

So this maintains the consistency, easier to scale, flexibility to add more manual tasks in  between e.g., 102,103...(which we wont be able to if order starts from 1) 

Thats my understanding

Thanks

Deepak