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wnicholl
6 years agoResolver II
Sorting Issue
Sorting Issue I’m having issues with sorting the yearly brackets in my column chart. I tried to create a conditional column in query editor, however the supporting built off a few calculated col...
- Anonymous6 years ago
Year Brackets Order = SWITCH(TRUE(), 'your_table'[Years as Member] <= 10, 10, AND('your_table'[Years as Member] >= 11, 11, AND('your_table'[Years as Member] >= 21, 21, AND('your_table'[Years as Member] >= 31, 31, AND('your_table'[Years as Member] >= 41, 41, AND('your_table'[Years as Member] >= 51, 51, AND('your_table'[Years as Member] >= 61, 61, AND('your_table'[Years as Member] >= 71, 71, AND('your_table'[Years as Member] >= 81, 81 )In both tables create such a column and you're done. You'll use the column as the sorting column (hidden).
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- Anonymous6 years agoInstead of looking up, which by the way is a slow process, create one table with all the combinations, or relevant combinations, and then you'll have just one column which you can sort any way you want. Sometimes the answer does not lie in DAX but in the data model. Just change the model.
There is a way to arbitrarily sort a measure's values but that requires stunts in the code, namely, attaching non-breaking invisible zero-width spaces to the values returned by the measure. You don't want to go that route.
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Anonymous
6 years agoNot applicable
Instead of looking up, which by the way is a slow process, create one table with all the combinations, or relevant combinations, and then you'll have just one column which you can sort any way you want. Sometimes the answer does not lie in DAX but in the data model. Just change the model.
There is a way to arbitrarily sort a measure's values but that requires stunts in the code, namely, attaching non-breaking invisible zero-width spaces to the values returned by the measure. You don't want to go that route.
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There is a way to arbitrarily sort a measure's values but that requires stunts in the code, namely, attaching non-breaking invisible zero-width spaces to the values returned by the measure. You don't want to go that route.
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wnicholl
6 years agoResolver II
Perfect! Thank you again!!!