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If you only have 24 values - 7am, 8am, 9am, etc for all 24 periods, you could create a custom column in Power Query to do this:
if [Column1] = "7am" then 1 else if [Column1] = "8am" then 2 else if [Column1] = "9am" then 3 else nullThat is 3. You just need to do the other 21. There must be a else null at the end without getting too deep in if/then/else constructs.
It is 100% case sensitive. So "7am" is not the same as "7AM"If you have minutes then this isn't workable like that. Otherwise, we'd need to see data. How to get good help fast. Help us help you.
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Community ChampionYes. You will need to add a column to your data to show how you want Power BI to sort it. So 7am would be 1, 8am would be 2, etc. Then you tell Power BI to sort the time column by your sort column. You can read more about that here.
Note that it must be a 1:1 relationship. So if you have Jan 1, 2020, and 7am, and then Jan 2, 2020, also with 7am, the "1" sort code must be for both dates, assuming the 7am is in a separate column. You cannot have, for example, 1 for the Jan 1 7am record and a 2 for the Jan 2 7am record. Power BI will see a 7am record with a 1 and 2 and will not know how to sort it.