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alex_bi
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Sort a visual matrix that uses the "show as rows"

I will describe the challenge from the start, since it might be easier to get another way to reach to the solution.

 

So I have a table with many columns. A number of these columns are  responses to a questionaire and hold the exact same variables, let's call them Var1,Var2,Var3,Var4.... Imagine the variables to be Yes, No, Maybe etc.

 

What I want to do is create a visual matrix where the rows are the questions, and the column is the count of "No". I must be able to sort the matrix so only the first N questiions (the ones with the highest counts of Nos) are shown.

 

I created a measure for each var (using COUNTAX  that counts the number of nos, and then used the "show as rows" option to create a visual matrix. However while the result is a visual matrix in the way I want, I cannot sort it/ filter only the top N. 

 

Any proposed solutions to this?

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v-frfei-msft
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Hi @alex_bi,

 

Kindly share your sample data and excepted result to me.

 

Regards,

Frank

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alex_bi
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I will describe the challenge from the start, since it might be easier to get another way to reach to the solution.

 

So I have a table with many columns. A number of these columns are  responses to a questionaire and hold the exact same variables, let's call them Var1,Var2,Var3,Var4.... Imagine the variables to be Yes, No, Maybe etc.

 

What I want to do is create a visual matrix where the rows are the questions, and the column is the count of "No". I must be able to sort the matrix so only the first N questiions (the ones with the highest counts of Nos) are shown.

 

I created a measure for each var (using COUNTAX  that counts the number of nos, and then used the "show as rows" option to create a visual matrix. However while the result is a visual matrix in the way I want, I cannot sort it/ filter only the top N. 

 

Any proposed solutions to this?

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