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Advocate II

8 years ago

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Sort legend

How can i do a manual sort on the legend in a graph visual? Because i use numeric description in the text it sorts as alphas rather than numeric: I want it sorted in time order: Early ...

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v-sihou-msft
8 years ago
nogi

I assume the "bucket" column you put in Legend should be based on another numeric column. You can't directly have this "Bucket" column sort by that numeric column.

In this scenario, you can create another sort table like:

Bucket Order

Early 1

On time 2

5 - 10 days 3

11 - 15 days 4

16+ days 5

Then build the relationship to your existing table on Bucket column, and use "merge queries" to join the Order column into existing Query. Now you should be able to have the Bucket column sort by Order column.

Regards,

JWorthy

Advocate I

8 years ago

Hello,

I tried out what you suggested but the option to sort by 'Order' isn't showing. I've added some screen shots to show how I've created the relationship and that I've merged the tables to add 'Order' to my survey data.

Where have I gone wrong?

Shot showing that I've merged the queries, successfully i think?Shot showing the relationship I've created between the two tables. Linking responses togetherShow showing that when I have responses selected the 'Sort by' option is showing 'Order' as an option