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Ramyaajithkumar
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need help

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how to bring months in chronological order in bar chart ?

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ppm1
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You need to set up a sort-by column. Please see this documentation.

Sort one column by another column in Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

 

Pat

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giammariam
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Solution Sage

Add a month number column (not as a calculated column, but in power query or at the source) and in the data view, select the month name column and sort by the month number column. 

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-sort-by-column?tabs=powerbi-deskto...



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