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Gantt Chart - Sorting Issue
The last time I used this was about 2 weeks ago at which time it was possible to choose which column to sort by, by clicking on the ... at the top-right of the gantt visualisation, but this option no longer appears:
So it seems that something has changed; is there a team at Power BI or GitHub or somewhere else that could advise if/when the functionality will return?
Thanks,
I came across the same issue and reached out to the software engineer of the visual noting the problem and he replied sayingthe following:
Gantt chart doesn’t support custom sorting. This visual always sorts values by date or category if date field isn’t filled.
We’ll improve Gantt visual and allow custom sorting.
It's strange because I want to create this screenshot form the Gantt App Store page. I want to sort the task name alphabetically but it won't allow it.
Identified a bit of a workaround; by selecting group tasks, it seems that tasks are sorted alphabetically by legend first then by date second. It may be necessary to make all task names unique otherwise it will combine tasks with the same name (unless of course you want this to happen). And, by using a helper column to assign the right alphabetical value to the field used in the legend, you can determine the required sort order.
That said, this is probably not the intended use of the legend field so the functionality may change at a later update...
Unfortunately, Group Task have no effect on my chart :(
