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sonam7
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How to get Month and Year chronologically sorted in category label in box and whisker plot

‎05-02-2019 04:41 PM

box and whiskers.PNG   I tried to create box and whisker plot but I wasn't able to use year month as date hierarchy in category field. Hence, I created a calculated column Month Year and used that instead. The problem here is that I am not able to sort it in chronological order by Month and Year. 

 

Can someone please help me how to approach this? Thanks!

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parry2k
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‎05-02-2019 04:50 PM

@sonam7 add another column to sort your Month & Year column.

 

Month Year Sort = FORMAT( Table[Date], "YYYY-MM")

Go to modelling tab, select your existing Month & Year column and select sort option in menu and choose "Month Year Sort". This will fix the issue.



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parry2k
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‎05-02-2019 04:50 PM

@sonam7 add another column to sort your Month & Year column.

 

Month Year Sort = FORMAT( Table[Date], "YYYY-MM")

Go to modelling tab, select your existing Month & Year column and select sort option in menu and choose "Month Year Sort". This will fix the issue.



Subscribe to the @PowerBIHowTo YT channel for an upcoming video on List and Record functions in Power Query!!

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VRMar2001
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‎02-18-2022 08:36 AM

Hello, How about if I need to sort by category label and also by values? Is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance.

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