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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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brjones
Advocate I
8 years ago

I thought this would solve my problem, but for some reason when I do the 'sort by column' step it does not sort by that column.  I made sure that no other columns had any kind of sort applied to them.

I created a new table based on an excel file.  

Then created a link between the new table and the one I wanted to sort by category.

Then did the sort by column step.  The screen flashed like it was doing something, but nothing happened.

 

The Table1 (T1) in my case is a query built from some other queries.

My Table2 (T2) is an excel file with two columns that I imported.

The linked column is labeled 'Reason Lost', with a 'Many to One' setting from T1 to T2, and cross filter set to 'both'

 

I would love some help with this, because the only other way I know to sort these correctly is to add an index in front of every item to get it to sort correctly, and that is visually distracting.