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My quarter column is not sorting from different years

I have a table column called quarter

Q1= April-Jun

Q2 = Jul-Sep

Q3 = Oct/Dec

Q4 = Jan/Mar

 

How do I work out how to order these against the correct years also?

 

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@Greg_Deckler I've done what you suggested and it shows ERROR.

 

When I transform my data and change my 'Year' column to date, it shows different values.

 

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Greg_Deckler
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@daniellamoore29 Often you solve this by creating a sort by column that combines Year and Quarter like:

Year Quarter = [Year] * 10 + [Quarter]



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