re-ordering report groups

#1

Hi, I’ve created one of my finest reports yet (in my opinion!). When sharing this with colleagues they have noticed (probably correctly) that the order of the content isn’t perfect.

I have 5 different ‘groups’ that contain repeating rows. I’ve spent quite a bit of time creating the report and the feedback I have is that the groups need to be ordered in a different way.

Do I have to delete the group that is in the wrong place, add a new group in the right place and then redesign? OR (as I’m hoping) there’s an easy way just to re-order the groups?

#2

You would have to remove the groupings and re-add them. However, one thing you could do to accelerate this process is to promote the group level metric sets underneath the report in the Explore tab.

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That way, these metric sets will now be under the Metric Sets folder like any other, so you can simply add a new grouping and use that metric set as the group metric set (as opposed to dragging in tables/cube dimensions one-by-one). You will need to rework the data labels underneath the grouping, but you can keep the previous grouping up while doing this for reference, then delete the previous grouping.

#3

That’s a helpful response thanks - I’d forgotten about promoting things - that will help speed things along.