Sorting Chart Legend

Question

I have a report with both a table view and a chart view of monthly aggregate opportunity revenues.
Got a request to sort the bar chart view entries by product.
I followed forum advice sorting on a column non-alphabetically, using a hidden Product Category field to sort my products by machine size with this CASE statement:
CASE
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='SPICA') THEN 1
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='NL28') THEN 2
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='NL28P') THEN 3
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='L28') THEN 4
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='L28P') THEN 5
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='LS29') THEN 6
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='LS29P') THEN 7
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='LSX29') THEN 8
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='L40') THEN 9
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='L40P') THEN 10
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='L40SP') THEN 11
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='LS40') THEN 12
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='LS40P') THEN 13
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='LS40SP') THEN 14
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='LSX40') THEN 15
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='LSX40RP') THEN 16
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='LS44') THEN 17
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='Web') THEN 18
WHEN ("Product Category"."Parent Product"='Chambon') THEN 19
ELSE 0
END
Sorts great...in the table. But the legend is sorting in its own goofy way. Once I added that column, the legend sorted a little differently but still is in the wrong order, based on the products:
Unspecified (always shows at the top of the legend: because of ELSE 0?)
LSX529C (Category = LSX29)
LS540C (LS40)
LS840P (LS40)
LS840PC (LS40)
LS629PC (LS29P)--out of order, should be before the first item
L640C (L40)--out of order
LS640C (LS40)--out of order
Chambon (Chambon)
I checked each of the entries and see they are properly Categorized in the Content Managemetn > Products area.
Anyone have any tips on getting the legend (and thus the cylinder segments) to sort properly or what might be happening here?
Thanks
Andy
Edited by: ARK2 on Dec 17, 2010 7:04 AM

Answer 1

Y = Opportunity Revenue
X = Month
The report is a 4-month forecast, but not using built-in Forecasting that CRMOD uses; this report uses the Forecast checkbox in an opportunity to determine if the oppty should be on the forecast report, then grabs the overall Oppty Revenue from that same region of the Oppty (not using line/Product level revenue field).
The report uses a table and above that a chart with 3D cylindrical output where each press model (derived from a field in the Oppty header) is a different color (I'm letting Analysis defaults set the colors for each product).
My boss wants to sort the colors from smallest model size to largest model size for consistency sake and to make the chart easier to comprehend with a glance.
Is this even possible? I could see sorting by revenue size, but that's not always the best indicator (as some used larger presses may sell for less than new smaller ones).
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Andy