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Complex sorting in Line Chart

Hello Community,

 

I am humbly requesting for contribution on this complex sorting, 

MY CASE : I have a forecast and actual values for 24 hours of the day on three different product, I am representing the data point in a line chart at the hourly level as shown in the chart for each other day for different product . I am finding it difficult to sort daily asc and hourly asc.

I added a slicer just to have just one product in the view at a time , the sortiing is still not right.

the Start time HE was created based on the logic below date and hour for the Axis. 

 

Starttime HE = (CONCATENATE(CONCATENATE(Hourly_Error_compare[date]," "),Hourly_Error_compare[hour_num]))

 

Current output 

iskidet_1-1639787073395.png

Expected output

 

iskidet_0-1639784897368.png

samplefile in my repo: https://github.com/erosons/PowerBI/blob/main/sample%20file.xlsx 

 

Thank you.

Sam

 

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parry2k
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@Anonymous why not you use date/time on the x-axis, seems like you are using a text column on the x-axis and that's your issue, if you change that date to date/time it will fix and will sort correctly.

 

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parry2k
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@Anonymous why not you use date/time on the x-axis, seems like you are using a text column on the x-axis and that's your issue, if you change that date to date/time it will fix and will sort correctly.

 

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Learn about conditional formatting at Microsoft Reactor

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Anonymous
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Thanks for the insight, I added hour to the datetime  hierarchy and drill down.

 

 

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