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How to sort TOPN results
- 7 years ago
AlB,
As far as I know, there is no reliable way. You could click the filter drop down arrow on the column and select Sort.
Hi affan
Thanks for your reply. It is sorted in the visual on your report, because the visual sorts it, but what I am talking about is the table itself, that you see in the Data view. That is what would be generated if I used the Table2 code somewhere else. For instance, imagine I want to get the top value from Table2, we could think of doing:
FIRSTNONBLANK ( TOPN ( 5; Table1; Table1[Value]; ASC ); 1 )
but for that to work properly I need to know the table returned by TOPN is actually sorted with the 1 on the first row. It will not necessarily be so, given how TOPN works. So how can we sort it? I know you could approach the above in a different manner but I am interested in the sorting issue.
Thanks
AlB,
As far as I know, there is no reliable way. You could click the filter drop down arrow on the column and select Sort.