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Br1bn
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3 years ago
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Month Abbreviation

Hi, in my data I have two fields YEAR and MONTH that I used to create a new column  Date = DATE (Data[YEAR],Data[MONTH] ,1) and setting its data type as Date/time I obtain this: which I us...
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  • FreemanZ's avatar
    FreemanZ
    3 years ago

    hi Br1bn 

    For chart visuals, you can always add another field to the tooltips and sort with the tooltips field.

    e.g. another column like:

    MonthNumber= FORMAT ( [Date], "MM" )

    like this:

     

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Anonymous
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3 years ago

Hello Br1bn  after created the new column of abbrv, go to your tables, 

Create a new sort column

Sorting = format([date],"yyyymm")

Now

Select the added column of abbrv, and press on sort column, and choose the sorting added column

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Br1bn
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3 years ago

I created a new column:

Month_Sorting = format(Data[Date],"yyyymm")

Then I clicked on the column "Month Short" and then I went to "Column Tools":

but tring sorting by the "Month Sorting" I got this error message

 

  • ghaines's avatar
    ghaines
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    3 years ago

    The sorting is set up staticly on the whole table, not in the context of your visual.  The problem is that there are multiple values of month_sorting for each Month

     

    e.g. for June, Jun corresponds to 202206 and 202106.  When there are similar multiple values for the other months, it doesn't know how to perform the sort.

     

    Either use Format(..., "MMM") for short month and Format(...,"mm") as your month_sorting
    and always have a year filter in effect where it is used

    or
    use Format(..., "MMM yyyy") for short month and Format (..., "yyyymm") as your month_sorting but this will change your display output.