Getting top 10 values and ranking the same values alphabetically

[RingoSun]

I have a bar chart above and as you can see I have 20 dealers. Dealer 1 to Dealer 3 have values while the remaining ones have 0. When I try to apply a filter to this visual to get the top 10, it still shows all 20 dealers probably due to the fact that Dealers 4 to Dealers 20 all have 0.

Now what I want is that when I try to get the top 10 and there are Dealers that have the same values (In this case 0) I want those with the same values to be arranged in alphabetical order instead.

So the order in the X axis should look like this:

Dealer 3, Dealer 2, Dealer 1, Dealer 4, Dealer 5, Dealer 6, Dealer 7, Dealer 8, Dealer 9, Dealer 10

Is this possible?

Sample pbix

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @RingoSun,

As far as I know, [Dealer] column is text data type. We couldn't sort text data type column like number type column.

So the order in the X axis should look like this:

Dealer 3, Dealer 2, Dealer 1, Dealer 10, Dealer 11, Dealer 12, Dealer 13, Dealer 14, Dealer 15, Dealer 16

I suggest you add a whole number data type [Dealer ID] column in your table. Duplicate [Dealer] column and replace "Dealer " by blank in Power Query Editor. Then change the column type to whole number and rename it as "Dealer ID".

Measure:

Rank = 
VAR _SUMMARIZE =
    SUMMARIZE (
        ALL ( 'Table' ),
        'Table'[Dealer ID],
        'Table'[Dealer],
        "Value", CALCULATE ( SUM ( 'Table'[Value] ) )
    )
VAR _ADDRANK =
    ADDCOLUMNS (
        _SUMMARIZE,
        "RANK BY VALUE", RANKX ( _SUMMARIZE, [Value],, DESC, DENSE ),
        "RANK BY ID", RANKX ( FILTER ( _SUMMARIZE, [Value] = 0 ), [Dealer ID],, ASC, DENSE )
    )
VAR _NEWRANK =
    ADDCOLUMNS (
        _ADDRANK,
        "New Rank",
            VAR _MAXRANKVALUE =
                MAXX ( _ADDRANK, [RANK BY VALUE] )
            RETURN
                IF (
                    [RANK BY VALUE] <> _maxrankvalue,
                    [RANK BY VALUE],
                    [RANK BY ID] + _MAXRANKVALUE - 1
                )
    )
RETURN
    SUMX (
        FILTER ( _NEWRANK, [Dealer ID] = MAX ( 'Table'[Dealer ID] ) ),
        [New Rank]
    )

Add this measure into the visual level filter and set it to show items when value is less than or equal to 10.

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

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[amitchandak]

@RingoSun , Try for Rank Tie breaker
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Breaking-Ties-in-Rankings-with-RANKX-Using-Multiple-...
https://databear.com/how-to-use-the-dax-rankx-function-in-power-bi/