Dear KNIMErs,
the Conditional Box Plot in KNIME 4.2 (Win 10 64 bit SDK nightly) gives me an incorrect sort order on string-numeric category labels, see below:
A fix would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks! 
Regards,
E
Yes, it would indeed be nice if there is some way in which we could control the order of the categories; sometimes I want to have a box plot of categories that can be divided into distinct groups; in such a situation I would like the categories belonging to a certain group to appear next to each other in the box plot.
Consider a boxplot comparing the weights of corvids and various birds of prey; afaik Knime does not offer a way to make the boxes appear in a sensible grouping, such as:
Crow - jackdaw - raven - hawk - buzzard - eagle
Last time I was in this situation I was forced to move the boxes around in Gimp after producing the box plot with Knime.
Best regards,
Aswin
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Well, I tried my best with the “0” prefix already, alphabetic order should’ve done the trick in this case - but the feature seems bugged in this node. :-/
And while I agree that hierarchical groups and custom sorting rules would be even better to have, I am also slightly wary of having too many reporting-type features in KNIME’s core. If I did it for a publication I’d probably go the ggplot route via R, and for exploration I’d just continue to generate alphabetically ordered prefixes.
Cheers,
E
Dear Ergonomist,
seems like there is something wrong with the sorting of the node. I agree that custom sorting would probably make sense. I have opened a ticket and will write here once its finished.
Cheers,
Daniel
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Great, thanks! 
-E
Hi there @lckrogh,
welcome to KNIME Community!
Not sure fix would help you. What you can try is following transformation from string to number:
Apr 18 --> 1804
Maj18 --> 1805
…
Anyways will add +1 on ticket (internal reference: AP-13814) to better handle order of categories if possible.
Br,
Ivan
Just a quick heads up on this topic. You can find an example for a grouped box plot using the Generic JavaScript View node in Grouped Box Plot – KNIME Community Hub. You have to make sure that your data is exactly in the required form (first column = group, one column for each subgroup), though.
Best,
Stefan
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Hello there!
Issue reported here is addressed with KNIME version 4.2.3. (AP-13814)
Changelog here:
Br,
Ivan
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