Looking at your screenshot, you're using a
pivot table (table visualization) in Analytical Designer.
The sort icon is not available in your case because
sorting via the sort dialog is only supported for specific chart types, not for tables/pivot tables in the UI. According to the documentation, sorting is available for:
• Bar charts
• Column charts
• Area charts
• Combo charts
• Bullet charts
• Pie charts
• Donut charts
• Heatmaps
[
Sort Data Docs]
This is a known limitation — a community member raised the same issue and was told that the sort option only appears when switching to a supported chart type (e.g., a column chart). A product feedback request was submitted to consider adding this functionality to tabular reports as well. [
Community Discussion]
Additionally, the pivot table documentation confirms that
sorting is not available in rows containing metrics, which may further limit sorting options in your layout. [
Pivot Table Limits]
Workarounds to consider:
1.
Switch to a supported chart type (e.g., bar or column chart) to use the sort dialog.
2.
Use the SDK — if you're embedding via the GoodData UI SDK, you can programmatically apply sorting to pivot tables using
sortBy
with
newMeasureSort
or
newAttributeSort
. [
Pivot Table Sorting]
3.
Set sort labels in the LDM — you can define a default sort order for attributes directly in the Logical Data Model. [
Sort Labels] 👍 0 button 👎 0 button ℹ️
Tip: Mention
@kapa.ai in the thread for follow-ups.
👀 Our Support team monitors all messages and will jump in if needed.