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kivancc94
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3 years ago
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Sorting Months by Concatanatex function

Hi,

I would be happy if you could help me. 

Trying to sort "Month Name" column by using Concatanatex function. But it s not sorting in a correct order.


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  • danextian's avatar
    danextian
    3 years ago

    hi kivancc94 ,

    CONCATENATEX has  an argument for sorting. First create a Month Sort measure - based on test, the measure has to be created outside CONCATENATEX otherwise the values will not be in the expected order.

    Month Sort Measure =
SELECTEDVALUE ( Dates[Month Number] )

    or

    Month Sort Measure =
MONTH ( Dates[Date] )

    Then update your formula similar to below

    MONTHS =
CONCATENATEX (
    VALUES ( Dates[Month Name] ),
    Dates[Month Name],
    UNICHAR ( 10 ),
    [Month Sort Measure], ASC
)

     

     

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    3 years ago

    Hi kivancc94,

    I'd like to suggest you refer to the following link to create a custom table with raw field value and index field.

    After you finish setting 'sort by column' property with index field value and link to the raw table field. You can use the new table field on slicer to filter records and keep with specific sorting orders.

    Custom Sorting in Power BI 

    Regards,

    Xiaoxin Sheng

  • danextian's avatar
    danextian
    Super User
    3 years ago

    hi kivancc94 ,

    CONCATENATEX has  an argument for sorting. First create a Month Sort measure - based on test, the measure has to be created outside CONCATENATEX otherwise the values will not be in the expected order.

    Month Sort Measure =
SELECTEDVALUE ( Dates[Month Number] )

    or

    Month Sort Measure =
MONTH ( Dates[Date] )

    Then update your formula similar to below

    MONTHS =
CONCATENATEX (
    VALUES ( Dates[Month Name] ),
    Dates[Month Name],
    UNICHAR ( 10 ),
    [Month Sort Measure], ASC
)