Sortorder in Report Builder

Swalker — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 20:21:43 GMT

Hi,

In Power Bi I have a FactTable of 227 project records with Start Dates starting from 1 Jan 2017 till 26 jan 2023. In PQ i added an Index Column starting from latest Start Date 26 jan 23 (Index 1) till 1 Jan 2017 (Index 227) .

I am loading in Reporting Builder 5 fields from the PowerBI dataset: Year (=YEAR([Date])) ClientType (text) Location(text) Project (text) Sector(text) using the Query

EVALUATE SUMMARIZECOLUMNS('ReferenceList'[Year], 'ReferenceList'[ClientType], 'ReferenceList'[Location], 'ReferenceList'[Project], 'ReferenceList'[Sector])

In Report Builder a Tablix is used and all 5 Fields are dropped in the Value box

The issue: The Sorting Order is not correct.

There are 5 pages and 46 lines per page. The first 3 pages is in ascending order till 1 jan 2017.

But then the Project Years start with 2021 , then 2020, then 2019, then 2022, then 2022 , then 2018...later 2023 the year are all over the place.

How can I force a sorting order (descending from Start dates 2023 -> 2017) either at the source data or in the Query ?

Many thanks !

Re: Sortorder in Report Builder

Swalker — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 09:36:55 GMT

I have solved this issue as follows:

EVALUATE SUMMARIZECOLUMNS('ReferenceList'[Index],'ReferenceList'[Year], 'ReferenceList'[ClientType], 'ReferenceList'[Location], 'ReferenceList'[Project], 'ReferenceList'[Sector]) ORDER BY 'ReferenceList'[Index] ASC

* include column [Index] in EVALUATE statement

* use ORDER BY [Index] ASC

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Sortorder in Report Builder

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