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aletho
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Avoid Alphabetical Sorting

‎09-13-2018 06:26 AM

Hello 

 

I'm taking over a dashboard and would like to change the x-axis, which represents the month, to the name of the actual name of the month. But it keeps sorting it alphabetically - what could I be doing wrong? 

Graph sorting alphabetically.PNG

 

Thanks

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Greg_Deckler
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‎09-13-2018 07:00 AM

Create 2 columns in your table off of your date field. One for the number of the month and one for the name. Select the name column and change the Sort By to the numeric column.



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‎09-13-2018 07:00 AM

Create 2 columns in your table off of your date field. One for the number of the month and one for the name. Select the name column and change the Sort By to the numeric column.



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‎09-14-2018 12:28 AM

Thanks again Greg! Your help is really appreciated

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