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iGi
Advocate I
9 years ago
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Custom Sorting in PowerBI?

Hello all,    Seeing as how helpful people were with my last two questions, I thought I'd ask another, which has been nagging me.    I'm aware of the sorting function in graphs, but that seems to...
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    v-haibl-msft
    9 years ago

    iGi

     

    You can create a table like following one and create relationship with the original table.

     

    Then create a calculated column in original table with following formula.

    Column = RELATED( Table2[ID] )

     

    At last, select the Type column and make it sorted by above created column.

     

     

    Best Regards,

    Herbert

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v-haibl-msft
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

iGi

 

You can create a table like following one and create relationship with the original table.

 

Then create a calculated column in original table with following formula.

Column = RELATED( Table2[ID] )

 

At last, select the Type column and make it sorted by above created column.

 

 

Best Regards,

Herbert

iGi's avatar
iGi
Advocate I
9 years ago

v-haibl-msft I got it! I was editing the query earlier, not realizing that I should just go through the Modeling tab under the table. 

Anyway, I was able to select "ID" from the new table: 

 

Sorted the Risk Rating column as you said, saved and the change took. 

 

Learned something new today. :)

 

Thank you!