skills/tableau-workbook-authoring/resources/examples/sort.json

{
  "_description": "Sort a dimension by a measure using a view-level sort node. This is the ONLY reliable sort method — CDP tabdoc:sort is unreliable and datasource-level sorts get stripped.",
  "_feature": "sort,sort-computed",
  "sort_node": {
    "_placement": "Direct child of worksheet > table > view (sibling to datasources, filter, slices)",
    "type": "sort",
    "attrs": {
      "column": "[federated.XXXX].[none:Sub-Category:nk]",
      "using": "[federated.XXXX].[sum:Sales:qk]",
      "class": "computed",
      "direction": "DESC"
    }
  },
  "notes": {
    "column": "The dimension column-instance being sorted",
    "using": "The measure column-instance to sort by",
    "class_values_Sort-G": ["computed", "manual", "natural", "alphabetic"],
    "direction_values_SortDirection-ST": ["ASC", "DESC"],
    "WRONG_placements": [
      "Inside column node in datasource-dependencies — stripped by loadMetadataFromXml",
      "shelf-sort-deltas at table level — stripped by loadMetadataFromXml"
    ],
    "CDP_sort_command": "tabdoc:sort is unreliable — use workbook JSON view-level sort instead"
  }
}