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Anonymous
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How to sort the matrix column header values

‎01-22-2019 07:39 AM

The data in the table is 

 

 

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I am using weekend date as column values in the matrix table.

 

 

The ouput is 

 

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The matrix column header values in appropriate order. How to display the column header values in ascending order ?

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‎01-23-2019 06:58 AM

The matrix column header values are 11/1/2018,11/8/2018,11/16/2018,11/24/2018..... 1/05/2019,1/12/2019. It's in ascending order.

 

My expectation is like 1/12/2019 ,1/05/2019,...............11/24/2018,11/16/2018,11/8/2018,11/1/2018

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‎01-23-2019 11:28 AM

You will need a "Sort By" column. See attached, Table9, Page 8.

 

Date is "Sorted by Column" the SortBy column. You access this by clicking on Date and then go to the Modeling tab.



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‎01-23-2019 08:14 AM

@Anonymous clicked on (...) on top right corner and change the sort order.



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‎01-23-2019 06:23 PM

Hi @Anonymous,

 

You can go to Query Editor, sort the "weekend date" column in descending order, then add a index column from 1. Apply the change. 

 

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Go to Data type select the "weekend date" column, click on Sort by Column, choose Index column. 

 

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