# Any way to rearrange the order of filter tabs in overview?

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**Created:** [June 11, 2024, 3:54am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/any-way-to-rearrange-the-order-of-filter-tabs-in-overview/452037 "2024-06-11T03:54:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Adept\_Ambraelle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/adept_ambraelle/32/510089_2.png) [@Adept\_Ambraelle](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Adept_Ambraelle)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 3:54am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/any-way-to-rearrange-the-order-of-filter-tabs-in-overview/452037/1 "2024-06-11T03:54:52Z")

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Is there any way to do this? It seems that this should be a standard feature, no? I just installed the Iridium Overview and don’t like the order they are displayed, I am wanting to change them.

In searching for a resolution the only thing that comes up is to change the column order.

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**Author:** ![Gerard\_Amatin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gerard_amatin/32/481361_2.png) [@Gerard\_Amatin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gerard_Amatin)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 5:42am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/any-way-to-rearrange-the-order-of-filter-tabs-in-overview/452037/2 "2024-06-11T05:42:10Z")

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The filters appear to be sorted alphabetically, so I’m pretty you can rearrange the order if you rename the tabs:

For example:

Anoverviewtab  
Someoverviewtab  
Theoverviewtabthatyouwantontop _(let’s move this one up!)_  
Thisisanotheroverviewtab

→

A-Theoverviewtabthatyouwantontop  
B-Anoverviewtab  
C-Someoverviewtab  
D-Thisisanotheroverviewtab

I guess numbers will also work, haven’t tried that.

The overview filters are fully customizable. Ingame in the overview settings you can export your current overview to a .yaml file which you can open in a text editor like notepad. There you can change the names to your liking and import it again.

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**Author:** ![Adept\_Ambraelle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/adept_ambraelle/32/510089_2.png) [@Adept\_Ambraelle](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Adept_Ambraelle)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 2:33am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/any-way-to-rearrange-the-order-of-filter-tabs-in-overview/452037/3 "2024-06-12T02:33:27Z")

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Oh wowz that seems rather redamentary; that should really be added as a feature, would be very helpful.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Gerard\_Amatin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gerard_amatin/32/481361_2.png) [@Gerard\_Amatin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gerard_Amatin)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 11:20am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/any-way-to-rearrange-the-order-of-filter-tabs-in-overview/452037/4 "2024-06-12T11:20:15Z")

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I’m just wondering, why do you want sorting?

Instead of sorting I use a different solution to find my commonly used filters myself: I keep the list of filters short.

While I haven’t used Iridium, I used Z-S for years. I noticed I rarely used all the specialised filters of Z-S, just a few of them, so when the default overview settings were updated to include many specialised filters by default I made a few custom filters for my own overview tabs and dscan.

With about 5 filters it’s really easy to find the one I need.

From the top of my head I think I use:

- **General combat** - shows hostile and neutral ships, bombs, cynos, deployables and more stuff that I can shoot or can shoot me
- **Friendlies** - shows friendly ships only
- **Travel** - gates, stations, sun and structures and other warp destinations - _in a separate overview tab_
- **Dscan all** - ships, structures, wrecks, deployables, probes etc.
- **Dscan ships** - ships and probes only

Short list, so no need for filters. And if I ever need a specialised filter for some task it’s not hard to make one.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 11:20am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/any-way-to-rearrange-the-order-of-filter-tabs-in-overview/452037/5 "2024-09-10T11:20:47Z")

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