Feature request from hostep, posted on GitHub Aug 24, 2016
I expected to be able to change the sort order of the billing address fields in the checkout using xml or some other "convenient" way, but found this is almost impossible without manually altering the sort_order field in the customer_eav_attribute table.
Not able to sort the billing address fields in a convenient and easy way.
To be able to sort the shipping address fields in the checkout, we can create a file checkout_index_index.xml with something like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" layout="checkout" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
<body>
<referenceBlock name="checkout.root">
<arguments>
<argument name="jsLayout" xsi:type="array">
<item name="components" xsi:type="array">
<item name="checkout" xsi:type="array">
<item name="children" xsi:type="array">
<item name="steps" xsi:type="array">
<item name="children" xsi:type="array">
<item name="shipping-step" xsi:type="array">
<item name="children" xsi:type="array">
<item name="shippingAddress" xsi:type="array">
<item name="children" xsi:type="array">
<item name="shipping-address-fieldset" xsi:type="array">
<item name="children" xsi:type="array">
<item name="region_id" xsi:type="array">
<item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="string">87</item>
</item>
<item name="postcode" xsi:type="array">
<item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="string">80</item>
</item>
<item name="company" xsi:type="array">
<item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="string">45</item>
</item>
<item name="vat_id" xsi:type="array">
<item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="string">46</item>
</item>
<item name="country_id" xsi:type="array">
<item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="string">85</item>
</item>
<item name="telephone" xsi:type="array">
<item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="string">90</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</argument>
</arguments>
</referenceBlock>
</body>
</page>I was hoping there was a similar way for the billing address fields, but came to the conclusion after viewing https://github.com/magento/magento2/blob/c5d618d5439362f50ba0f21d3fadf418cc765190/app/code/Magento/C... this is not possible due to those hardcoded values.
Or am I missing something obvious here?