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How To Sort Columns based on other columns with duplicate values

I have 3 columns:

  1. destination town
  2. destination branch
  3. destination town index

The index columns are whole numbers that represent the actual geographical location of each town. I have pivot table matrix with origin town and destination town, and by default, the pivot sorts the towns by alphabetical order.

I would like to sort the towns by index but can't figure out how to as there are duplicates in town & index columns as per screenshot below. 

How do I overcome this?

 

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ibarrau
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Hi. If you want to order a column by other value you can do it. Go to Data View and select a column, then under modeling tab you will find a "Sort Column by" or something like that. Check the picture out:

sort col bysort col by

For more info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-sort-by-column#sort-using-the-sort-by-column-butto...

 

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Anonymous
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@ibarrau  I tried to sort Destination Town by Destination Town Index but got the following error

 

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Check the data. This will only work if you have a town destination for each town id. Your Town 3 has two values (2 and 3). If you correct this kind of things it will let you do it.

 

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