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PowerBisfun
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7 years ago
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Power BI not sorting months properly

Hi everyone.  I've created a very basic dataset to sort out expenses. The issue is, Power BI sorts the months correctly, but not by year. See image attached   How can I fix this? How can I get i...
  • TomMartens's avatar
    7 years ago

    Hey,

     

    in a way it does, there are two options just create a yearmonth column that contains values that can be ordered, like so: 201811, 201812, 201901 or 2018-11, 2018-12, 2019-01

     

    A second option is that you use nested columns on the x-axis.

    To create a nested hierarchy, just add the columns like Year and Month to the x-axis of your chart:

     

    Make sure the "Concatenate labels" property is set to off (Formatting pane --> X axis card):

     

    Drill down all levels of the hierarchy in your chart:

     

    Sort the x axis accordingly, please be aware that this might look different as your column names are different :-)):

     

    A final move might be that you have to change the order sequence from descending to ascending or vice versa

     

    Hopefully this is providing some ideas.

     

    Regards,

    Tom