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slc7456
Advocate III
9 years ago
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Format DAX function does not sort properly

Data Source: Tabular Cube 

 

Purpose: Create a new measure that is a whole number formatted as currency, i.e. no decimals. This new measure must be able to sort high to low. 

 

Background: Microsoft knows there is a bug that doesn't allow newly created measures to be formatted using the modeling tab link. Which is why a DAX query must be used to control formatting. 

 

 

Recently Microsoft announced that you could create new measures when using a Tabular Cube data source. I've created a new measure called SalesDAXFormat (see below). 

 

However, this new measure seems to sort alphabetically by number (right matrix). Does anyone know how I can get this measure to sort numerically from high to low (and vice versa)?  

 

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Ya, I think you are hosed until the June release.  As soon as you use FORMAT( ) your measure it going to return text, and that will cause text based sorting... and not much you can do about that (outside of... don't use FORMAT, but then you hit the other bug w/ built in formatting not saving).

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    9 years ago

    Ya, I think you are hosed until the June release.  As soon as you use FORMAT( ) your measure it going to return text, and that will cause text based sorting... and not much you can do about that (outside of... don't use FORMAT, but then you hit the other bug w/ built in formatting not saving).

    • slc7456's avatar
      slc7456
      Advocate III
      9 years ago
      I think you're correct. I'll try again in june. Thanks!
      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        Not applicable
        4 years ago

        Hi, 

         

        Was this fixed?

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      7 years ago

      Hi Scottsen!

       

      Do you know, if this issue was resolved? I'm having the same problem. 

       

      I can't see any fix mentioned on the june-2017 update list.

       

      Br, Torben

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      5 years ago

      does anyone know if its resolved? FORMAT() is still doign Text sorting