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Sorting Order

JDong
8 - Asteroid

Hi Team,

 

Sort Column
ANA
ARAX
Armani
Basics
C and A
Capital
Peak
Pentagon
Porvai
QUEST
Quantum
RFE
REALISTIC
Savigny
SIGNAL
The Capitol
TLD Immov
TPGIT
Tisha
Union Jack
DC Values
Wealthny
Westen Part
WeWoke
alstrivia
pwr

 

I want to sort all the records shown in ascending order. Irrespective of it beign small or capital. Any idea here please since the sort tool options are not helping.

 

Thanks

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AngelosPachis
16 - Nebula

Hi @JDong ,

 

What you can do is use a formula tool to create a new field which contains the lowercase version of that initial column.

 

Then you can use a sort tool to to sort based on that new field in an ascending order, and then drop it with a select tool

 

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Hope that helps,

 

Angelos

JDong
8 - Asteroid

Thanks @AngelosPachis this is great...is there a way to make only first letter in capitals and rest in small ?

Qiu
20 - Arcturus
20 - Arcturus

@JDong 

I think his continent is night time now😁

Make a minor change based on @AngelosPachis  work.

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AngelosPachis
16 - Nebula

Yes, @JDong 

 

Try the Titlecase function instead of the lowercase; that should do it

 

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echuong1
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Another option is to use the data cleansing! You can modify to title case at the bottom.

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danilang
19 - Altair
19 - Altair

Hi @JDong 

 

Check the "Use Dictionary Order"  option in the sort Tool

 

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Results are sorted irrespective of letter case

 

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Dan

 

 

JDong
8 - Asteroid

Thanks to all of you !

 

The solution accepted works for the use case. The dictionary order did not work on my dataset.

 

 

danilang
19 - Altair
19 - Altair

Hi @JDong 

 

Can you post a sample of your actual input data?  

 

Dan

JDong
8 - Asteroid

Hi @danilang 

 

Thanks for the kind help !

 

The data is kind of sensitive so need time to extract and format the same. For some reason the lower case word is always shown at the bottom of the result even when we set the dictionary order to be active.

 

 

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