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Status Under review
Workspace Planning Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 5, 2024

Legend sort in charts according to the selected set, even with the zero suppressioin

At the moment if you show the legend for your chart, it doesnt matter what type of charts, you cannot use the zero suppression for sure. 
The sorting order is functioning not according to your set but according to your values, it is not practical and disappointed. 

It means, that e.g. you have some values for Argentina in 2024, however, for Belgium in 2020, for the legend you get Belgium as first country, and Argentina as a second country. But you want and you need Argentina as a first country. 

The answer from support team: 
The non alphabetical sort of the elements in chart legends when the elements in dimension are sorted alphabetically is going to be a permanent limitation of our software, the alphabetical order of members in the chart's legend is not guaranteed when zero suppression is turned on.

 

Thank you very much in advance. 

With best regards, 
Vitalij

 

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  • Guest
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    Mar 5, 2024

    Hello Stuart,

    in my usecase for the support issue, I have some additional information.
    I tried it with the cube sales.

    Here is my mdx for the dimension "region" that is my row dimension.


    #######################
    ORDER(EXCEPT(DISTINCT({[region].[region].[World],DESCENDANTS([region].[region].[World] , 99 , LEAVES)}) , {[region].[region].[World]}) , [region].[region].CURRENTMEMBER.PROPERTIES("MEMBER_NAME") , BASC)

    #######################


    Concerning the values, I put some values to Argentina, e.g. for August and some values to Belgium / Brazil to a month a bit earlier, and as a result, you get such a view: with Brazil / Belgium and only after that Argentina.

    I will add here my screens from the support case.

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    Stuart King
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    Mar 5, 2024

    Hi Vitalij,

    I'm not sure I understand the issue you are presenting. I did a quick test with a bar chart using a single dimension (countries) on the row axis. I sorted the members alphabetically using the set editor sort option.

    Without suppression I see this:


    With suppression enabled I see this:


    It appears that the sort order is persisting.

    The legend appears to match the order of members in the rows axis of the source view.