Forum Discussion

mojganmeibodi19's avatar
mojganmeibodi19
Regular Visitor
2 years ago

sorting legend based on two criteria

I have a simple dataset that contains each supplier's sale in each year. I made a bar chart with years in the x axis and suppliers' sale on the y axis and used supplier company as legend. I wa...
Customer Sort
legend
lbendlin's avatar
lbendlin
Icon for Super User rankSuper User
2 years ago

Could you layer the individual columns as separate marks with their own sort order? Or would you have to know the number of columns/marks beforehand?

dm-p's avatar
dm-p
Icon for Super User rankSuper User
2 years ago

Whatever the layer, if they share the same encoding channel, Vega will likely resolve them to the same scale (and sort). Your best bet would be to use a window transform to generate a numeric order based on grouping and sorting of multiple fields in the dataset and then sort on that.