You have the following data. You want to sort each category's sub-category by ascending sales. Which sort option should you use?

The correct answer is A. Nested. A nested sort allows you to sort data within each category by a secondary field, such as sub- category sales in this case. By using a nested sort in Tableau, each sub-category within a category will be sorted by Sales in ascending order, providing the desired hierarchy within…

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You have the following data. You want to sort each category’s sub-category by ascending sales. Which sort option should you use?

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ANested
BManual
CData source order
DField

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A
75% (21)
B
4% (1)
C
7% (2)
D
14% (4)

Explanation

A nested sort allows you to sort data within each category by a secondary field, such as sub- category sales in this case. By using a nested sort in Tableau, each sub-category within a category will be sorted by Sales in ascending order, providing the desired hierarchy within each main category. Other options, like manual sort and data source order, would not automatically achieve this within-category sorting by sales, and field sort does not offer nested functionality by

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