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jwjwjwjwjw
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7 years ago

Matrix Column Sort Order

My apologies if the solution for this is already out there, I don't think it is but I figured it wouldn't hurt to check.   I am using the matrix visual to compare year by year profitability of a ra...
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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Isn't it a shame and ridiculous that after... - what? 2 years? - we still can't sort by arbitrary columns in a matrix. Such a simple and basic thing. Microsoft - shame on you.

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MFelix
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5 years ago

Hi Anonymous ,

 

This is related with the type of information you use on yhe columns or rows of the matrix. If they are individual columns on the model you can rearrange them has you need however if you are using a the data from a column to present your information on the matrix columns the used option is the one of the sorting of the data in that column.

 

I understand what people refer because in excel for example this is doable, but it's diferent softwares so some functionalities are different.

 

Check if there is an idea for this in the forum and vote for it.