Displayr

SUMMARY: In a recent interaction with a customer they asked if we have the functionality in Displayr to create a Summary Table i.e. a list of brand preferences and then use the sort order of these brands to sort another table i.e. a grid of imagery statements by brand. It will be great if we can potentially add this to Table > Properties > Rules, so that customers do not have to write the R-Code.

Although the feature is accessible, it necessitates multiple clicks and navigating through various menu options, leading to confusion for users with the terms Ascending and Descending being used for sorting labels in a row.

A user who created a crosstab (i.e. Preferred cola in the rows and age in the columns) might want to dynamically sort the rows of their table by changing the column to sort on i.e. 18-24 year olds from a combo box control. Currently, they would need to create an R output, identify the column to be sorted, link it to the combo box, and sort it in the R output.

Allow for sorting of Text RAW Data Table alphabetically. This is possible in the Data Editor, but not in a table.

Sometimes a user wishes to sort a table by a specific column but doesn't want to show it. It should be easier to accommodate sorting by a hidden column.

The right-click sort option in tables should work the same way as the automatic sorting rule which ensures a table keeps being sorted after changes.

All table types in Displayr should be sortable by one or more columns. This should extend to right statistics and not just cell statistics.

It’s not currently possible to sort a table on a marginal statistic (such as sorting columns/rows on Average in Statistics - Right or Below) either in a table or as part of any of our visualizations. Adding this feature would enhance our customers' abilities to do more with fewer outputs, simplifying their Q and Displayr projects.

User was using a data file without meta data and had scaled variable sets that had the scales out of order. They had changed the Values in the Value Attributes to be in order in hopes they could then sort by the underlying value to get the scale in order in their table. This would be helpful for users without metadata in their files. Workaround is to relabel the categories with something to sort on and then sort that way.

Take Cola Tracking data, for example. Step 1: Table > Raw Data > Variables Step 2: Select Unique Identifier, Interview Date, Age (doesn’t really matter, the important variable is Interview Date). Step 3: Sort on Interview Date (either ascending or descending) and note that the values are sorted alphabetically. This is unlikely to be the intent of the user when sorted. Feature request is to allow the user to change the variable type to be Date and sort it sensibly.