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Anonymous
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7 years ago
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Custom Sort bar chart

Hello,   I'm new to Power BI and trying  to sort the chart below by the following order: Agree, Strongly Agree, Neither Agree Nor Disagree, Disagree, Strongly Disagree. I have other statements that ...
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  • parry2k's avatar
    parry2k
    7 years ago

    Anonymous in Power Query add another field in your table. assuming your existing field is called "Status" and new column is called "Status Order"

     

    if [Status] = "Agree" then 1 else
if [Status] = "Strongly Agree" then 2 else
if [Status] = "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" then 3 else
if [Status] = "Disagree" then 4 else
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    Close and apply the changes, go to modelling tab, select "status" field and choose sort by column option and select "Status Sort" column.

     

    Your data will sort as per your need.

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parry2k
Super User
3 years ago

saraammain yes, you need to create it in PQ.

 

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    saraammain
    New Member
    3 years ago

    Thanks, worked now 🙂 However, in order not to add numerous additional columns to my data table, in the end I created separate "sorting tables" (with two columns: names for the x-axis and index), connected them with my data table, used the new table for the x-axis and sorted the x-axis by the index column.