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How to order TO and FROM nodes in Path Way diagram (Sankey) in Visual Analytics

LukeSAS — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:01:07 GMT

Hello,

I am currently creating a path way or as some call it sankey, diagram.

I want to show behaviour for how customers extends their loans.

I am able to create a diagram and the visualization perfectly but the To and From nodes order is in my experience completely random.

I wish to have a specifik order of the nodes where the shortest loan time should be first in the from and to node.

Something like this:

From node To Node

1 year 1 year

2 year 2 year

3 year 3 year

I am not able to find a any option for this, I've tried to create a custom sort order for the category variable but it does show that order once I use it in the diagram.

Does anyone have a solution for this?

Thank you in advance.

Best regards

Re: How to order TO and FROM nodes in Path Way diagram (Sankey) in Visual Analytics

Madelyn_SAS — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:44:23 GMT

Hello, please let us know your release of Visual Analytics so that any answers are sure to apply to your release.

Re: How to order TO and FROM nodes in Path Way diagram (Sankey) in Visual Analytics

LukeSAS — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:03:55 GMT

Hello,

The release is 8.5.2.

Thank you.

SAS Viya Release V.03.05

Re: How to order TO and FROM nodes in Path Way diagram (Sankey) in Visual Analytics

Madelyn_SAS — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:25:13 GMT

I do see that an option to order the nodes was not available in version 7.5x, and I don't see any indication in later releases that the option to order nodes was added. I don't see any open feature requests. You could add one using this community:
https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Product-Suggestions/idb-p/product-suggestions