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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's avatar
    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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mvanwyns
Advocate I
8 years ago

All these workarounds for just a simple sort task, unbeleivable how difficult it is

 

I just can't get this crap worked out

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s--turn
Helper II
2 years ago

I agree this is a HUGE faff for such an obvious requirement!  I am sure this is possible in Tableau.  Is there anywhere this has been logged as a suggestion that we can upvote, and try and get it on the roadmap?