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Sorting a stacked bar chart

  • November 20, 2025
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How do you sort a stacked bar chart based on the total value of the bar. The chart only allows for sorting based on the values in the X axis. In my case these are peoples names. I am looking to sort the bars from highest to lowest. I have tried by using formula numeric fields .... no luck. If anyone has this solved... let me know

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  • November 20, 2025

You can sort by the Y-Axis value on a Bar Chart.  Perhaps somebody else knows a hack or work around for the stacked bar.


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  • November 23, 2025

Yeah as soon as you leverage a stacked bar chart, you loose the native functionality of sorting. To Don's point, you may be able to hide some values inside of a rich text field that you could use to sort in the y-axis. 


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  • November 24, 2025

GRX,

The other option is to use something like Tableau or Qlik.  BI/BA tools can make any type of report of chart you can dream about.