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Date Month Sort - In DIMDATE Table
Hi Experts
How would you sort the a DD MMM column in a DimDate table (see column image i need to sort) in day month order
Add a column for MonthNumber and sort the DayMonth column by MonthNumber
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Add a column for MonthNumber and sort the DayMonth column by MonthNumber
Did you select the DayMonth coumn and Sort by Month Number column?,
We are sorting one column based on the values of another column, It works for me
You need to have additional column (eg. oryginal_date) with standard date type format eg 2022-01-13 and then you can select your DayMonth column and select Order by oryginal_date. Note that it won't work correctly if you will have 2 same dates eg 11 May = 11 May 2022 || 11 May 2023 would have different order value.
Let's assume you have such column as a text:
DayMonth
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Oryginally you have wrong order on your visual like this:
But if you will do like I said so select DayMonth column and with Column tools set "Sort by column" as DayMonth - as date you will get something like this:
