Help Needed in Nested Sorting for Hierarchical Bar Chart

[rintoalappat]

Hi Everyone, 

I'm a begginer in Power BI, We are working on a Tableau to Power BI Migration project where I'm facing some difficulties in converting one bar chart to power bi. 

Scenario : I have a category and subcategory and sales value plotted in a bar chart, I have turned of Concatenation, I want to show it by Category group (Highest Category First) then inside each group show sucategory bars (Highest Subcategory First).

I was able to achieve the first sort by creating a Total colum using ALLEXCEPT(). but I'm not able to do the second layer sorting. 

Any help is appreciated. 

Screenshot below:

Expected :  I want to show highest subcategory in DESC in each category. 

Sample File Download Link : Sample PBIX File 

Regards,

Rinto

[Ahmedx]

is this whate you looking for

[rintoalappat]

yes, This is what I'm looking for. Could you please share the steps which you followed. Thanks in Advance. 

[Ahmedx · Accepted solution]

[clarainesgg]

Hi, I have the same Issue. I can open the bar graph dashboard. Could you send in another version? Thanks!

[clarainesgg]

Hi, I am following the steps and i got an error:

Failed to resolve name 'ROWNUMBER'. It is not a valid table, variable, or function name.

[rintoalappat]

Thank you. Its working for me. I do have one more query in the same DAX, on the same bar chart, I have visual level measure filter which restricts the data for sales >=1.  

The abpve dax is working without the filter, but if I add that visual level filters, the sort s not working properly. I know we have to add that filter somewhere inside the m2 calculation summarization part. 

Could you please help me with that as well ? Appreciate your help and time.

[Ahmedx]

if you find that you have a lot of subcategories and because of this the measure is violated, then try this measure
You can replace 100 with 1000 if you have a lot of subcategories

[Ahmedx]

I don’t understand, please share the file with the problem

[rintoalappat]

Scenario : Need to show subcategories which having Sales more than 50. 

Problem : When I apply visual level filter, its resetting the sort.

PBI file : Sample PBI File - Filter Interfere with Sort  

[parry2k]

@rintoalappat great minds are already here and provided the appropriate solutions, just curious, is this what you are looking for:

[rintoalappat]

yes, subcategory is showing properly. but office supplies category should come at the beginning as per value desc.

[Ritaf1983]

Hi @rintoalappat 

Unfortunately, this functionality is unavailable.

Please refer to the linked discussion:

https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Desktop/Sorting-by-multiple-columns-in-clustered-column-ch...

And vote for the linked idea:

https://ideas.fabric.microsoft.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=facafdf4-1c63-4db8-a385-c120e4607c45

To rank the values hierarchically you can use a matrix with conditional formatting.

It is also a much more efficient graph for ranking scenarios than  a clustered column:

pbix is attached

If this post helps, then please consider Accepting it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly

[rintoalappat]

Thank you for the alternate solution. I do have some stacked legeds as well on the bar, I believe its not possible with Matrix bar visual

[Ritaf1983]

Hi @rintoalappat 
No, and don't recommend using stacked bars.
Please refer to my linked blog post which explains why.

"Home experiments" and stacked bar graphs (madeiradata.com)

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[amitchandak]

@rintoalappat , When you sort ox Axis Category / subCategory, As of now you do not have option to sort subCategory based on value