Altair® Panopticon

 

Creating a Custom Sort Order

For this sample data:

Month

Weekday

Date

MonthNo

WeekdayNo

January

Monday

01/01/2021

1.00

1.00

February

Tuesday

 

2.00

2.00

March

Wednesday

 

3. 00

3.00

April

Thursday

 

4. 00

4.00

May

Friday

 

5. 00

5.00

June

Saturday

 

6. 00

6.00

July

Sunday

 

7. 00

7.00

August

Monday

 

8. 00

1.00

September

Tuesday

 

9. 00

2.00

October

Wednesday

 

10. 00

3.00

November

Thursday

 

11. 00

4.00

December

Friday

 

12. 00

5.00

 

When used in a visualization or filters, will be displayed as:

 

On the Columns pane in the Edit Data Table layout, you can create the custom sort order of the dimensions or text columns of the selected data source. Consequently, this allows the dimensions to be displayed in a visualization and filter in the correct or desired order.

Steps:

1.     Click the Columns button.

The Columns pane is displayed.

 

 

2.     Enter the order of the values (separated by a comma) of the dimensions or text columns under the Custom Sort Order section.

Title

Custom Sort Order

Month

January,February,March,April,May

Weekday

Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday,Saturday,Sunday

 

 

3.     Click . Once saved, a notification displays.

 

Using the data with custom sort order, the visualization and filters will now be displayed as: