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powerbidevelope
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Month and Quarter Incorrect sorting

Hi All,

 

In Our report, we have to display the current User Selection(Slicer Selection) in a Card Visual

 

We have

1. Year Slicer(Single Select)

2. Quarter(Multi Select)

3. Month(Multi Select)

 

When we display the user selection, it is not coming in sorting order.

 

Please help..

 

pbix file:

https://github.com/bodempudi/CodeSnippets/blob/master/PowerBI/Demos/month%20sort%20issue.pbix

sample excel file:

https://github.com/bodempudi/CodeSnippets/blob/master/PowerBI/Demos/date%20sorting%20%20issue.xlsx

 

dax expresion:

User Selection = CONCATENATEX(VALUES(Sheet1[CAL_MTH_NAME]),Sheet1[CAL_MTH_NAME],", ")&"
"&CONCATENATEX(VALUES(Sheet1[CAL_QTR]),Sheet1[CAL_QTR],", ")
month sort issue.PNG

 

Thanks

 

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v-yuta-msft
Community Support
Community Support

@powerbidevelope ,

 

You can add two parameters [order_by_expression] and [order] in concatenatex() function like below:

User Selection = CONCATENATEX(VALUES(Sheet1[CAL_MTH_NAME]),Sheet1[CAL_MTH_NAME],", ", Sheet1[CAL_MTH_NAME], ASC)&"
"&CONCATENATEX(VALUES(Sheet1[CAL_QTR]),Sheet1[CAL_QTR],", ", Sheet1[CAL_QTR], ASC)

 

Community Support Team _ Jimmy Tao

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Hi @v-yuta-msft 

 

thanks for your reploy, your expression is not working.

 

Any help is appreciated..

 

Thanks......

 

Hi @v-yuta-msft @v-yuta-msft 

 

i am just thinking like as we do not have continuous dates, sorting is not working. Is that correct? or any other reasons..

 

Thanks..

 

 

@powerbidevelope ,

 

Have you solved your issue by now? If you have, could you please help mark the correct answer to finish the thread? Your contribution will be much appreciated.

 

Regards,

Jimmy Tao

@powerbidevelope ,

 

Yes, based on my test, concatenatex() will sort by the first charater of the text if the values are not date or number.

 

Community Support Team _ Jimmy Tao

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Community Champion

So normally you put in a "sort by" column and set your column to sort by that column. 



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