Sudden change in label ordering in explores

[Brent_Wiles]

Update: This issue has been confirmed by Looker and was unintentionally caused by v24.0. A ticket has been opened with the engineering team.
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Hello All - we've used the leading spaces technique for ordering the fields in our explores for quite some time. We've put these spaces in the group_item_label without issue, until today, when I noticed the ordering reverted back to alphabetical order based on the label field. 
If I add the leading spaces to the label field, it still works, but doing that across all our explores will be a significant amount of rework.

Anyone else seeing this sudden change in behavior? 

[davidcraig]

Yes! We're seeing this, as well. Your post was very helpful, and it's good to hear you've already been working with Looker eng to get a ticket going. Thanks.

[cpeterson]

I'm also experiencing this change and it's drastically impacted the organization of our explores.

[IanT]

Hi,

thanks for following up with info about Looker acknowledging this. Did they say they were going to fix this back to old behaviour?

[Brent_Wiles]

Hi @IanT - yes, the Looker engineering team has assessed the issue and given it a medium priority for resolution. That's based on our biz impact, but it is impacting all users on Looker v24.0.

I'm not sure how that translates to a timeline, if there is a larger impact to your/others business, filing a ticket through Looker could elevate it further. 

[Brent_Wiles · Accepted solution]

We noticed on 3/28/24 that Looker had resolved the field ordering issue on our instance. Hopefully everyone else has seen the same.