Multiqc not sorting descendingly with custom_plot_config

[TS2310 (Thomas)]

I am working on a custom module for my internship.
I am making a custom table that should look something like this:

But for some reason when I try to preload the sorting settings with the multiqc_config.yaml it only sorts in ascending order, like this and takes the first column with it.

I have a multiqc_config with the following settings:

I have also tried without adding direction like described in the documentation Plotting functions | Seqera Docs

I am new to this, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

[vlad.savelyev]

Hi Thomas! I can’t seem to be able to reproduce the issue. I’m running on the samtools coverage test data (test-data/data/modules/samtools/coverage at main · MultiQC/test-data · GitHub):

multiqc -f test-data/data/modules/samtools/coverage -c ~/.multiqc_config.yaml

With the following config:

custom_plot_config:
  samtools-coverage-table_table:
    defaultsort:
      - column: "Mean depth"
        direction: desc

And it looks as expected:

Would you be able to share a reproducible example?

[TS2310 (Thomas)]

I have added a smaller edition of my project in the zip file together with some test data.
Normally after installing and using $ multiqc -m msh2 ./test_data/ -c multiqc_config_MSH2.yaml should do the trick for producing the report.

multiqc_help.zip (1.4 MB)

[TS2310 (Thomas)]

Could my problem be caused due to my column consisting out of strings instead of floats or integers? Sorry for bothering with this niche question.

[TS2310 (Thomas)]

Problem seems to be solved when updating to multiqc 1.29.