Dynamic Sorting in Tableau: Here's How to Do It

[@madhuripulimati160]

Good work, thank you for the video

[@DataVizCanvas]

You are welcome. Glad you find it useful. 🙂

[@romanvasiura6705]

Thank you for this great lesson 😃

[@DataVizCanvas]

Glad you liked it!

[@abhijeetdoshi332]

Great content!!

[@DataVizCanvas]

Thanks Abhijeet 🙏

[@px9418]

hi, if i want to do dynamic sorting by measure like the way with parameter, but only within each category of a dimension, is it possible?

[@DataVizCanvas]

Yes, you can by adding additional calculations. Please give a go and let me know if you need more info.

[@siddiquisherry7483]

How to do dynamic sorting when we have all dimensions in the data including date of birth, alphanumeric ice codes.? Thanks

[@likeminas]

Hi there, thank you for sharing this video. Quick question. Can this be also used for sorting a date type column?

[@DataVizCanvas]

I havent tried that but yes logically it should work. Please give it a go and let me know if you need any help there.

[@dollisonjoseph]

Hi I am new to tableau and I find this video helpful to what I need but I have a question? How do I hide the 2 dynamic sorting fields that are put on the rows shelf? Thank you in advance!

[@DataVizCanvas]

You can right click on the dimension pill and select hide. Hope that helps.

[@BhuvanaNatarajan-fz7on]

Hi, can you show how you can sort and also have custom colors based on each of the columns

[@DataVizCanvas]

Hi, please check the below tutorial on tableau tips and tricks where i have shared how to add different colour for each column that can be measure value or dimension. Please check that out and feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Cheers!

[@ajayb850]

Great content but if we use table calculation we can not able to make total how we can achieve that.

[@DataVizCanvas]

Hi Ajay, You can add the totals / subtotals by going to Analytics tab and double click on totals or by going to analysis menu and then going to total section. Also you have to make sure that you are following the correct order of operations while using filters . Check out below link for details help.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop/en-us/order_of_operations.htm

[@nataliacalderon8906]

So disappointing why trivial things like sorting, have their non-intuitive trick. why is the sort button on each column for then??!

[@DataVizCanvas]

Thanks for your feedback. There is defaut sorting option available as well. This is a different way to do dynamic sorting in tableau.