Tab Order

Hi All,
I need some information regarding Tab Order in EP. I know about Sort priority property but wondering what is the default order.
Suppose I have three Role
Role A
Role B
Role C
EP show these roles in the following Order
Role B | Role A | Role C
every time.
As per help.sap.com <b>Items without a priority appear in any order.</b>
1. Now If the order is ANY, then why user see the same order every time he logon-on.
2. Same roles assigned to the another user, he also see the roles in same order.
It shows that there is some default Order. It is not alphabetically for sure.
Any Clue.????

Hi Anup,
> Items without a priority appear in any order
means: There is no contract between the implementation and the administrator/enduser, in which order they appear.
Obviously, the implementation does not use a random number to determine the order
One possibility would be that the entry points will be ordered, but that the ordering algorithm - in the case of no sort order given - produces no "real" order.
Another possibility would be that the order is dependent on deep PCD JNDI implementation secrets...
So, I cannot see what's the value of disclosing this secret, so I won't spend my time to suss it. But if you want - start with decompiling the TopLevelNav implementation, going down the code until you see how it is "ordered"...
Hope it helps
Detlev
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