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Anonymous
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Matrix Sort by Value Not Working

Hi,

 

I have a report showing data by seasons. I've attached an image below of the seasons. I've created a sorting measure to order how I'd like the seasons to appear (chronologically). So the logic is the first two numbers are year and Summer ends 1, Winter ends 2 so it will order chronologically. This works fine in a table. However if I drag this measure into a matrix visual and click sort by this, it still continues to sort the seasons alphabetically. 

 

I've included a screenshot of the matrix - I blanked out the data values as they are not important to the problem. 

In the matrix there 2 row fields, 1 column field and 4 values fields.

 

Has anyone experiences measures sorting tables correctly but not matrix visuals?

 

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parry2k
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@Anonymous not sure why but you should create a column product sort column and sort your column with this new column and tht should work.

 

Sort one column by another column in Power BI Desktop - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

 

 

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parry2k
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@Anonymous not sure why but you should create a column product sort column and sort your column with this new column and tht should work.

 

Sort one column by another column in Power BI Desktop - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

 

 

Follow us on LinkedIn and YouTube.gif to our YouTube channel

 

Learn about conditional formatting at Microsoft Reactor

My latest blog post The Power of Using Calculation Groups with Inactive Relationships (Part 1) (perytus.com) I would  Kudos if my solution helped. 👉 If you can spend time posting the question, you can also make efforts to give Kudos to whoever helped to solve your problem. It is a token of appreciation!

 

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Anonymous
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Thanks Parry2k for the help. I used that feature you linked and it flagged a circular dependency so I set up a reference table and it fixed the problem. Appreciate the help. 

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