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acretney
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9 years ago
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How do i sort a column with duplicate values by another column

Hi all,   I am trying to create a 'stacked bar chart' visual that will show me financial information corresponding to tasks coming from a project plan. (See below)   The tasks are currently...
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  • acretney's avatar
    acretney
    9 years ago

    Thanks Angelia,

     

    That fixed the calculated column however when i try to sort the 'taskname' column by it i get the following error

    "This column cant be sorted by a column that is already sorted, directly or indirectly by this column"

     

    I've actually implemented a workaround by concatenating the 'TaskIndex' and 'TaskName' values and sorting by this instead. So now i have..

    ID1 Establish routine

    ID2 Set Trap

    ID3 Drop Anvil

    ID4 Chug a beer

     

    It's not ideal as i would prefer the task ID not to display in the visual however at this stage its a cosmentic issue rather than a functional one.

     

    Thanks anyway for your efforts

     

    Kind regards

    Alex

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v-huizhn-msft
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

Hi acretney,

I edit the reply, as Vvelarde posted, please remove the ) as follows. And check if it works fine.

MaxDate =
VAR currentTaskName = 'Table1'[TaskName]
RETURN
    CALCULATE (
        MAX ( 'Table1'[Date] ),
        FILTER ( ALL ( Table1 ), 'Table1'[TaskName]  = currentTaskName
    )



Thanks,
angelia

 

acretney's avatar
acretney
Frequent Visitor
9 years ago

Thanks Angelia,

 

That fixed the calculated column however when i try to sort the 'taskname' column by it i get the following error

"This column cant be sorted by a column that is already sorted, directly or indirectly by this column"

 

I've actually implemented a workaround by concatenating the 'TaskIndex' and 'TaskName' values and sorting by this instead. So now i have..

ID1 Establish routine

ID2 Set Trap

ID3 Drop Anvil

ID4 Chug a beer

 

It's not ideal as i would prefer the task ID not to display in the visual however at this stage its a cosmentic issue rather than a functional one.

 

Thanks anyway for your efforts

 

Kind regards

Alex

  • v-huizhn-msft's avatar
    v-huizhn-msft
    Microsoft Employee
    9 years ago

    Hi acretney,

    Congratulations, you have resolved your issue. Please mark your solution as workaround, so that more people will benefit from it.

    Thanks,
    Angelia

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    6 years ago

    I agree this is not an idea solution. If there is a duplicate value, but it has a unique ID from another system, we should not need to remap these items to new names with a sort value as a prefix. In principle, I understand why powerBI has created this limitation, but we should be able to define hidden attributes which make duplicate values unique so that they can be sorted correctly in visualizations.