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Anonymous
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Sort graph axis values (DAX generated)

Hello community,

 

I have created a Boxplot chart showing salary distribution per category. The categories are retrieved from a table that was created by DAX. As you can see in the photo, the categories order is random and I want to sort the categories so I have L3, L5, L6.

 

How can I do that? 

 

Thanks in advance 🙂screenshot boxplot.png

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amitchandak
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@Anonymous , Create a sort column mark that as sort column and sort visual on axis

 

How to Create Sort Column and Solve Related Errors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK1zu4MBb-c

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-sort-by-column

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Anonymous
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Thank you for your feedback @amitchandak 

what I did to resolve this problem , is that i Created the ID column in the DAX code that I used to generate my table. By so doing, I have no dependency between category and ID_cat so. COnsequently, when I used sort column by ID_Cat it worked successfully.

 

Conclusion: try to avoid circular dependency

 

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Anonymous
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Thank you for your feedback @amitchandak 

what I did to resolve this problem , is that i Created the ID column in the DAX code that I used to generate my table. By so doing, I have no dependency between category and ID_cat so. COnsequently, when I used sort column by ID_Cat it worked successfully.

 

Conclusion: try to avoid circular dependency

 

amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@Anonymous , Create a sort column mark that as sort column and sort visual on axis

 

How to Create Sort Column and Solve Related Errors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK1zu4MBb-c

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-sort-by-column

Full Power BI Video 20 Hours YouTube
Microsoft Fabric Series 60+ Videos YouTube
Microsoft Fabric Hindi End to End YouTube

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