Custom sorting axes

Hey folks,

 

I'm looking to create a chart using DAY OF WEEK. However, I can only sort the axis by descending or ascending. I want to display the bars in the order of the days of the week.

 

Two questions about this problem:

 

1) Does anyone know how to modify this?

 

2) What does Domo use as the default to order, if I don't specify any sorting? (i.e. in my case it started with Friday, then Saturday, then Sunday, etc.) I would think Domo would use the order in which the entries appear in the database, but that's not the case - in my case, first entry was Wednesday.

 

3) Assuming none of this funtionality exists... can we add it to the product backlog? Man Happy I think this would be useful.. not all metrics are presented alphabetical or numeric. Some examples that come to mind: city, day of week, different time periods that we assign names to, etc.

Comments

  • There is this recommendation of creating a Beast Mode:

    https://dojo.domo.com/t5/Card-Building/Custom-Sorting-Using-a-Field-Specifically-Sales-Funnel/m-p/17907#U17907

     

    Does anyone know of a simpler way?

  • Hi all,

    Can anybody help out @phillipgornicki?

    Thanks!

  • Tclark07
    Tclark07 Domo Employee

    @phillipgornicki,

    I wanted to make sure the answer we discussed was also posted here in case anyone else had a similar question.

    In order to sort by day of week you would have to create a beast mode filter that looks similar to this:


    CASE
    WHEN `column` = 'MONDAY' THEN 1
    WHEN `column` = 'TUESDAY' THEN 2
    WHEN `column` = 'WEDNESDAY' THEN 3
    WHEN `column` = 'THURSDAY' THEN 4
    WHEN `column` = 'FRIDAY' THEN 5
    WHEN `column` = 'SATURDAY' THEN 6
    WHEN `column` = 'SUNDAY' THEN 7
    END


    Also note that you may need to use the TRIM() function in case there are any extra white spaces. 

    Thank you.




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  • When adding the custom sort to the "Sorting" field, it has no effect.  Attached is a screenshot and below is the code created in beast mode....what am I missing?

     

    DomoSort.PNG


    @TylerC wrote:

    @phillipgornicki,

    I wanted to make sure the answer we discussed was also posted here in case anyone else had a similar question.

    In order to sort by day of week you would have to create a beast mode filter that looks similar to this:


    CASE
    WHEN `column` = 'MONDAY' THEN 1
    WHEN `column` = 'TUESDAY' THEN 2
    WHEN `column` = 'WEDNESDAY' THEN 3
    WHEN `column` = 'THURSDAY' THEN 4
    WHEN `column` = 'FRIDAY' THEN 5
    WHEN `column` = 'SATURDAY' THEN 6
    WHEN `column` = 'SUNDAY' THEN 7
    END


    Also note that you may need to use the TRIM() function in case there are any extra white spaces. 

    Thank you.



    I have created a sort and applied as shown, however it seems to have no affect, am I missing something? Below is my code/validated in beast mode.

    (CASE
    When 'Month' ='January - 2016' THEN 1
    When 'Month' ='February - 2016' THEN 2
    When 'Month' ='March - 2016' THEN 3
    When 'Month' ='April - 2016' THEN 4
    When 'Month' ='May - 2016' THEN 5
    When 'Month' ='June - 2016' THEN 6
    When 'Month' ='July - 2016' THEN 7
    When 'Month' ='August - 2016' THEN 8
    When 'Month' ='September - 2016' THEN 9
    When 'Month' ='October - 2016' THEN 10
    When 'Month' ='November - 2016' THEN 11
    When 'Month' ='December - 2016' THEN 12
    When 'Month' ='January - 2017' THEN 13
    When 'Month' ='February - 2017' THEN 14
    When 'Month' ='March - 2017' THEN 15
    When 'Month' ='April - 2017' THEN 16
    When 'Month' ='May - 2017' THEN 17
    When 'Month' ='June - 2017' THEN 18
    When 'Month' ='July - 2017' THEN 19
    When 'Month' ='August - 2017' THEN 20
    When 'Month' ='September - 2017' THEN 21
    END)

  • HA, after posting the question, I could see the nuance with my text nearby to compare - solved it.  Needed to use ` and not ' for the column name.  Now sorting as expected.

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