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sophie63
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Helper I

Date sorting problem

I have an issue with my x-axis which is not sorted in chronological order. I created a column to ahh index from 1 (jan 2016) to 15 (Mar 2017) but even the index are not well sorted.

 

 How can I solve this issue?

dateprob.PNGmonthnumber.PNG

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@sophie63

 

hi, your index is type number or text?. Should be number.

 

 




Lima - Peru

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sophie63
Helper I
Helper I

Hi,

I have an issue with my x-axis which is not sorted in chronological order. I created a column to ahh index from 1 (jan 2016) to 15 (Mar 2017) but even the index are not well sorted.

 

 How can I solve this issue?

 

dateprob.PNGmonthnumber.PNG

@sophie63

 

hi, your index is type number or text?. Should be number.

 

 




Lima - Peru

@Vvelarde indeed it was Text instead of number I  figured that out after posting ! I changed the type and the problem is solved. Thanks! 🙂

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