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BSwan
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Creating Different Sort Orders in Waterfall or Bar Charts based on what level is Drilled Down On

Hi PB Community,

 

Wondering if anyone is aware of a way to default the the sort order in a Waterfall/Chart/Bar/Funnel Chart depending on what level is drilled down to (besides manually adjusting the sort by clicking the elipses in the upper right corner).

 

For example, if I have some sales data in a waterfall chart with drilldown enabled. The Hierchy goes : Year --> Month --> Region --> Salesperson --> Customer.

 

Is there a way to by default, have PB sort the Year & Month levels by chronological order, and then the Region, Salesperson, & Customer by net revenue?

 

I couldn't come up with anything natively in PowerBI, perhaps a Rank DAX function could work?

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Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi @BSwan,

 

The chart not support to set default sorted column currently, you can use query editor to sort these columns:

 

Based data.
 Capture1.PNG

 

Sort in query editor.
Capture2.PNG 

 

Save the change and you will find the records sorted.
 Capture3.PNG


Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng

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klabir
Helper V
Helper V

Hello

We created the Power BI Ultimate Waterfall Custom Visual.

It has a lot of clever functionality built-in. Like Chart orientation, small multiples, sub totals, Start value, deviation calculation and many more.

http://dataviz.boutique/2017/03/22/powerbi-ultimate-waterfall-custom-visual/

We are interested in your feedback!

Which functionality you still miss?

THX

Klaus

M8.PNG

Hi Klaus,

 

the waterfall you have developped is awsome.

It could be nice to have also a waterfall with differences.
I'll try to explain better the topic:

we need to compare two different waterfall and to see in a third waterfall the differences between the first two graph.
Is it possible?
How can do it? Could you help us?
Thank you
Best regards
Lara

klabir
Helper V
Helper V

Hello

We created the Power BI Ultimate Waterfall Custom Visual.

It has a lot of clever functionality built-in. Like Chart orientation, small multiples, sub totals, Start value, deviation calculation and many more.

http://dataviz.boutique/2017/03/22/powerbi-ultimate-waterfall-custom-visual/

We are interested in your feedback!

Which functionality you still miss?

THX

Klaus

M8.PNG

Anonymous
Not applicable

I am having this problem too but not finding this solution works for me.  

 

I have a bar chart which shows the cases due in the next 7 days sorted by date.  

 

Capture.PNG

It has a drill down which then shows who those cases are allocated to 

 

 

Capture2.PNG

 

I want to sort this level by volume whereas it's sorted by name alpha at the moment.

 

How can I acheieve this?  I data sorted by the volume measure in the table view like this suggests but it's made no difference.

 

Thanks for any help

Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi @BSwan,

 

The chart not support to set default sorted column currently, you can use query editor to sort these columns:

 

Based data.
 Capture1.PNG

 

Sort in query editor.
Capture2.PNG 

 

Save the change and you will find the records sorted.
 Capture3.PNG


Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng

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