Custom Sorting

user32470

Hi Everyone,

I followed the steps outlined here: https://dojo.domo.com/t5/iSolveditwithDomo/How-do-I-Create-a-Custom-Sort/m-p/45500#M13 but cannot get my custom sorting to work. 

 

Chart: Heatmap

Data: Google Ads Data, broken out by date and hour.

 

I attempted to do custom sorting for Day of Week (using a date transform) and Dayparts (custom grouing based off hours of day)

 

Dayparts - The hours in the data is represented 0 - 23 (Military time). Since I'm using a heatmap, it would look unwieldy to have that many rows of data. this is the beast mode I used to group:

 

(CASE

When `Hour Of Day` in ('6', '7', '8', '9') then 'Morning 6-9AM'
When `Hour Of Day` in ('10', '11', '12', '13', '14', '15', '16') then 'Daytime 10-4PM'
When `Hour Of Day` in ('17', '18', '19') then 'Early Fringe 5-7PM'
When `Hour Of Day` in ('20', '21', '22') then 'Prime 8-10PM'
When `Hour Of Day` in ('23', '0') then 'Late Fringe 11-12AM'
When `Hour Of Day` in ('1', '2', '3', '4', '5') then 'Overnight 1-5AM'

end

)

 

to do a custom sort, I used this beast mode:

 

CASE

when 'Dayparts' = 'Overnight 1-5AM' then 1
when 'Dayparts' = 'Morning 6-9AM' then 2
when 'Dayparts' = 'Daytime 10-4PM' then 3
when 'Dayparts' = 'Early Fringe 5-7PM' then 4
when 'Dayparts' = 'Prime 8-10PM' then 5
when 'Dayparts' = 'Late Fringe 11-12AM' then 6

end

 

I then take this beast mode for the sort and drag it into the sorting field. I make sure there is no aggregation and do ascending order. The result is that it's out of order (See my attached screenshot). 

 

Now onto Day of The Week

 

Day of Week. This is the beast Mode I used to return a day of week name:

(CASE

when dayofweek(`Date`) = 1 then 'Sunday'
when dayofweek(`Date`) = 2 then 'Monday'
when dayofweek(`Date`) = 3 then 'Tuesday'
when dayofweek(`Date`) = 4 then 'Wednesday'
when dayofweek(`Date`) = 5 then 'Thursday'
when dayofweek(`Date`) = 6 then 'Friday'
when dayofweek(`Date`) = 7 then 'Saturday'
end)

 

this is the beast mode I used to do the custom sort

 

CASE

When 'Day of Week Name' = 'Monday' then 1
When 'Day of Week Name' = 'Tuesday' then 2
When 'Day of Week Name' = 'Wednesday' then 3
When 'Day of Week Name' = 'Thursday' then 4
When 'Day of Week Name' = 'Friday' then 5
When 'Day of Week Name' = 'Saturday' then 6
When 'Day of Week Name' = 'Sunday' then 7

end

 

Similar to the Dayparts sort beast mode, everything is returned out of order. 

 

What am I doing wrong? The video I linked makes sense...maybe it's the fact that I am doing another step before the custom order that's throwing it off? Thanks!

 

 

user32470

Hi Grant

 

I ended up being able to sort it - I took the original day part data the beast mode group was created from (hour of the day) and dragged that into the sorting file as ascending. to answer your question, yes the beast mode does return numerical values when I put in secondary dimension (eg: cost)

 

thanks though!!

user32470

Update - I was able to correct the Day of Week to make it sort in order. 

 

I made a new beast mode called "Day of Week Transform" where it just contained

 

DAYOFWEEK ('Date')

 

Then I dragged that beast mode into the sort and I was able to sort Day of The Week correctly.

 

The dayparts (hours), I'm still stumped on...

GrantSmith

Hi @user32470 

For your custom sort for the day parts - is your beast mode actually returning different numerical values or are they all the same?

user32470

Hi Grant

 

I ended up being able to sort it - I took the original day part data the beast mode group was created from (hour of the day) and dragged that into the sorting file as ascending. to answer your question, yes the beast mode does return numerical values when I put in secondary dimension (eg: cost)

 

thanks though!!