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Anonymous
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Sorting issue for Rows with Matrix

Hello, having issues Sorting within a Matrix. I have a field named "Sort". What it does is sorts By date the Category/SubCategory/Element so that they are continuously in the same order each time I get new records flowing in daily. Please see that I brought the "Sort" field in to Values in to order to sort but the issues is that anytime a new day's worth of data flows in, the column I brought for Sort shows up. I want it completely hidden. So maybe I'm going about this completely wrong. Is there a better way?

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So as new dates flow into my matrix, I am forced to hide the sort column each time. I dont want to have to do this.

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Patrick
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tackytechtom
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

I'd suggest to create three different sort columns, one for Category, one for Subcategory and one for Element.

 

After, assign each column to its correspinding sort column:

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Would this solve your issue? 🙂

 

/Tom
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tackytechtom
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

I'd suggest to create three different sort columns, one for Category, one for Subcategory and one for Element.

 

After, assign each column to its correspinding sort column:

tomfox_0-1648283211897.png

 

Would this solve your issue? 🙂

 

/Tom
https://www.tackytech.blog/
https://www.instagram.com/tackytechtom/



Did I answer your question➡️ Please, mark my post as a solution ✔️

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Anonymous
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Tom, that solution works perfectly! I have been struggling with that or so long so thank you so much!

Patrick

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