diff --git a/ui/src/views/Forecast.jsx b/ui/src/views/Forecast.jsx
index d59b030..382a3db 100644
--- a/ui/src/views/Forecast.jsx
+++ b/ui/src/views/Forecast.jsx
@@ -755,7 +755,6 @@ export default function Forecast({ sources = [], sourceId, versions = [], versio
       await viewer.load(tableRef.current)
       viewer.setAttribute('theme', dark ? 'Pro Dark' : 'Pro Light')
       if (!hideSplitTotal()) setTimeout(hideSplitTotal, 400)
-      await syncOrderExpressions()
 
       // restore last-used layout or build default
       // Strip cfg.table — table is already loaded by reference above; a stale name
@@ -793,6 +792,12 @@ export default function Forecast({ sources = [], sourceId, versions = [], versio
       }
 
       // auto-persist viewer state (formatting, columns, etc.) to the last-used cache
+      // After the layout, not before: restoring a saved config replaces
+      // `expressions` wholesale, so expressions applied earlier were being wiped
+      // by the very next line and the ordering columns never appeared in the
+      // column list.
+      await syncOrderExpressions()
+
       if (viewer._pspUpdate) viewer.removeEventListener('perspective-config-update', viewer._pspUpdate)
       viewer._pspUpdate = async () => {
         try {