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Custom order for legend

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Krishna Sankar on 30 Jul 2015 05:43:14

I should be able to order the "legend" and the values for each legend category in a stacked bar chart. This is similar to "series order" feature in Excel

Administrator on 20 Aug 2020 01:24:03

Thanks for the feedback. Vote to keep updated on progress for this item.

Comments (279)

Comments (279)

66366d4c a6df-ea11-a813-000d3a8faea9 on 16 Aug 2020 10:00:26

RE: Custom order for legend

This is very valuable feature. ... it helps readability if certain things are in chronological order. For instance, if we are tracking how many issues are there in todo, in progress, in review or completed.. .. current sort order by highest to lowest value (or count of issues in each category) is not really read-able friendly. rather, i should have an ability to sort in this sequence, todo, in progress, in review, completed.

and not only readability, it will also add a bit of random design. currently everything seems flowing from left to right, if i have some random heights in sequence, it would look better as a pure classical Manhattan graph.

Please add this feature of "Axis Sequence" and list down all legends that user can drag and drop to change order.

thanks.

c43b2067 d114-4feb-9370-f54358f4a8fc on 16 Aug 2020 04:20:31

RE: Custom order for legend

agree with the thought below to extend this to other stacked chart types

ffbd0774 1cf2-458b-9120-b247125bf5ff on 16 Aug 2020 04:20:22

RE: Custom order for legend

Is there a roadmap on when this feature is planned to be released?

51086fef 3b87-4694-aa73-d0994d33187d on 16 Aug 2020 04:20:05

RE: Custom order for legend

Yes, I agree vith this suggestion.
please let us know when available ;-)

9d1909b8 9acf-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 16 Aug 2020 04:20:05

RE: Custom order for legend

Please fix this asap, and extend to the stacked area chart also. The way it currently displays is totally counter-intuitive - the legend is in the reverse order to the chart!

So many complex features have been rolled out in the 5 years since this was raised, supported by thousands of votes, hundreds of comments. It's hard to believe it is still neglected.