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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

 

Thanks so much for this!  

 

I had to delete some visualizations and re-create them in order for it to work correctly, but it's working beautifully now :)

 

GREAT TIP!

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bassm
Advocate I
8 years ago

Same for me. I had to delete my chart and create again.

 

Thanks for the tip. A good work around.