Sorting a drop-down list in Content

Hello,
This may be a simple issue but I just started working with UCM and have a question. I have a metadata field that's populated using a drop-down list. Seems like the list is sorted based on the date and time I added the list values. I would like to sort the list alphabetically in ascending order based on the label in the view. I've looked all over the documentation but can't find this anyway.
Can anyone point me to the right solution?
Thanks.
Bigmc

Is this for a custom metadata field or one of the out of the box? if ootb, which field?
Where are you trying to find the information? I'm wondering where you're looking that you don't find it. It's documented in a few places in the "Managing Oracle WebCenter Content" document:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E29542_01/doc.1111/e26693.pdf
-ryan

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