You can now sort visualizations using fields from the Tooltips. This becomes especially handy when you need to reorder charts based on fields not initially part of the visualization.
Imagine you have a bar chart showing GMV (Gross Merchandise Value) by country:
By default: Countries appear alphabetically
Your goal: Group by geographic regions
Quick solution: Add ‘Region’ to Tooltips and sort by it
Hi Theo,
Many thanks to the Holistics team for making this update. We started implementing this new feature in our dashboards and found a couple of limitations that may limit its utility over time:
If the intent is to hide fields by which you are sorting fields from view, sorting by a tooltip will automatically make those fields visible on hover-over. This is is a similar constraint to sorting by hidden fields on pivot tables (rows can be hidden, but not columns on pivot tables).
When a chart uses a legend (ex. a multi-series bar chart, stacked bar chart), the tooltip sort does not apply to the sorted measure overall, but instead it requires you to pick one of the values.
For example, a stacked bar chart showing customers (X-axis), product category (Legend), and Summing total sales, if you want to show highest sales totals overall, the use of sort by tooltip value is not always consistent.
The ability to hide tooltip values would likely solve the first issue.
