# "ordered" in CMultiAttribute

**URL:** <https://discourse.openehr.org/t/ordered-in-cmultiattribute/16492>\
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**Created:** [29 January 2015 12:14 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/ordered-in-cmultiattribute/16492 "2015-01-29T12:14:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [29 January 2015 12:14 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/ordered-in-cmultiattribute/16492/1 "2015-01-29T12:14:17Z")

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Hi,

I wonder what a use-case might be for the "ordered" keyword in CMultiAttribute.  
It complicates software, and seems useless because elements in a list can be queried/sorted in any order in the result, as well be queried as a single element.

Shouldn't it therefore not be in the AOM, but be something for a template to implement?  
Thanks for any thoughts

Bert