idea Ability to order the legend items in Operations Dashboard. in ArcGIS Dashboards Ideas

Ability to order the legend items in Operations Dashboard.

JoannaEllis — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 15:40:37 GMT

Currently cannot order the items in the legend of charts with split by field / stacked data - this means dashboards with related tables look messy and it makes data harder to understand from a user perspective.

Re: Ability to order the legend items in Operations Dashboard.

RandyMcGregor_Home — Tue, 05 May 2020 11:44:57 GMT

This is really quite necessary. Some of my dashboards have fairly long legends (unavoidable - long story) and finding what color goes with what can be a chore.

Re: Ability to order the legend items in Operations Dashboard.

MikeKellison1 — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 15:25:56 GMT

Even for smaller legends this would be ideal. I have six items ranging from Very Poor to Very Good, but I can't order them correctly, so it just looks sloppy.

Re: Ability to order the legend items in Operations Dashboard.

GeorgeBrown1 — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 14:36:32 GMT

We are also having this issue when it comes to bar charts and wanting to show the years as 2019 2020 2021, yet the DB will randomly show the dates for certain bar charts as, for example, 2019 2021 2020.

Re: Ability to order the legend items in Operations Dashboard. - Status changed to: In Product Plan

patrickb — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 19:19:52 GMT

This is something we hope to make progress on. In the meantime, custom sorting can often be achieved via a data expression (currently available in ArcGIS Online). The basic idea is that the data expression creates a feature set with things in the desired order.

Re: Ability to order the legend items in Operations Dashboard. - Status changed to: Implemented

patrickb — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 14:43:53 GMT

Improved sorting was added to serial charts as part of the March 2022 release of ArcGIS Dashboards.

https://doc.arcgis.com/en/dashboards/reference/whats-new.htm

Re: Ability to order the legend items in Operations Dashboard.

CarolineBlack29 — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 18:20:54 GMT

Same legend sorting capability would be useful in pie charts please!

Re: Ability to order the legend items in Operations Dashboard.

DanielLeónPacheco — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 20:44:07 GMT

It is something that is really very necessary to be able to establish an order, that is to say, that we can customize our categories. I think adding it to the user interface would be the best or allow to work with arcade.

Re: Ability to order the legend items in Operations Dashboard.

GraceTortorici_ — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:56:29 GMT

@patrickb is there a way to sort legends for a multi field pie chart in dashboards?

Re: Ability to order the legend items in Operations Dashboard.

sarahc_WellingtonCounty — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:28:34 GMT

@GraceTortorici_ Not sure if you've already found this setting or not, but I noticed you can reorder the fields in the data tab of the pie chart settings. Reordering will update the legend order too.