In Custom Fields, for every item where I can pick something from a list you always see a pattern of 2 rows:
item name and below also the item name (or sort name?) but smaller.
Other fields outside Custom Fields do not show this behavior. I guess because the do not have a ‘sort’ value?
Web also does it:
when you click on:
But using the dropdown directly it only shows 1 value:
It looks very unnecessary to show 2 rows of text for each item. Why is that?
On Web I always use the direct input for my custom fields and never go to the popup dialog. So I don’t really mind and didn’t really notice it was there. On Mobile however, you always see the second row with the same name. It looks really overwhelming and gives a busy impression.
Those are the Sort Name.
We decided that all custom pick lists fields get Display Names and Sort Names, to give you more control of the sorting of the values:
So busy with text. If it is just the sort name, why would you show that? It just needs to sort it and use the display value to show the content of the item. In my movie list I also only see 1 value, not title and sort title below it.
Basically, just because the app already did that for pick lists with sort names, like Actors, Directors, etc…
Haha, that makes a lot of sense to apply the same rules 
Do you think it makes sense to display the sort field in the pick lists? (web and mobile)
Or maybe something for the list of ideas/improvements?
Maybe not.
It does make sense to show them in Manage Pick List screens, but maybe not in the picker screens. I think these two current share the same code, so I think that’s why.
