bar chart sort axis

[flapponi]

Hi,

I am struggling in plotting a bar chart with continuous axis sorted according to my preference. This seems to be allowed only if I select a categorical axis data type (but in this case the outcome is not desirable), but surprisingly not for continuous axis type!?!  Is there a work around? 

See below

Txs,

Fabio

[flapponi]

In reality I will be most happy to just invert the axis (sort for descending order). This is actually possible for the x axis (there's an invert axis option) but not for the y axis. As my y axis is depth below surface I will like to have them plotted inverted and being numbers it shoul dbe in theory a very simplye thing to do....  

[ibarrau]

Hi. I don't think you can and it's ok if you think about it. The continious axis means that the value for the axis is a number or date that will show all the values it can inside showing an aggregation in the visual with the size of the visual. This forces the visual to show in scale order by that because it is grouping the axis to show. If you change the sort for a different thing it won't be able to do any of that. If you want to sort by value that's why you can change to categorical to show that order value by value not aggregating the quotatin on the axis.

I hope that make sense.