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?
@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.
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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.
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