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udian
Helper III
Helper III

Matrix Sort By Column

Hi,

 

I am using power bi connected live connection to my tabular cube.

 

I am trying to sort my matrix using my dimension ID column but the "Sort by Column" option is greyed out. I guess this is because i am using live connection.

 

How can i sort my matrix?

 

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Thanks!

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v-sihou-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

@udian

 

No. It's not possible to sort column groups within a matrix.

 

Since each entry supposes to be repeated along with row group, even you don't put any field on matrix, it still doesn't support sort on some field. 

 

Regards,

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rjhartop
Helper II
Helper II

If anyone is still looking for a solution, this blog post may be useful:

 

https://affinityworks.co.uk/power-bi-matrix-column-sort-sorted/

 

You will likely need three slicers to sort by each of the different parent, child.. column headers

v-sihou-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

@udian

 

No. It's not possible to sort column groups within a matrix.

 

Since each entry supposes to be repeated along with row group, even you don't put any field on matrix, it still doesn't support sort on some field. 

 

Regards,

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