SYNOPSIS:
Not possible to sort on a metric in a Visual Insight (VI) Bar Graph when the option "left row " is enabled.
SYMPTOM:
When creating a Bar Graph in Strategy Visual Insight Dashboard the option to sort on metrics will not work as expected if the option "left row" is enabled.
After enabling "left row" functionality the sorting option is still available but the changes are not applied.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
1) Create a VI in 10.2 with one dataset containing one metric and one attribute, create a bar graph with the attribute in the Vertical box and the metric in the Horizontal box.
2) Check that you can sort by right mouse clicking on the metric and choosing sort ascending and/or sort descending.
3) Right mouse click on the attribute and choose left row.
4) Right mouse click on the metric and see how sorting functionality is not applied.
CAUSE:
This is working as designed. It is expected that sorting on metric only works when the attributes are on the axis. If the attribute is put on the rows, each bar is in a separate chart so sorting would become a very complex and misleading task in a chart containing multiple data points, not only a simple bar chart.
For this specific use case, users could sort the bar by putting the attribute back to the axis.
