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PowerBi gantt sorting bug
Hey,
I'm using the 3.0.12.0 version of MS provided Gantt visualization and I noticed that when you sort the data alpabetically, it does not work correctly. If the data lines have uppercase and lowercase first letter, they are treated separately. For example "Turntables" are now before "eBikes". Basically it sends all the lowercase words to end of capitalized list and starts sorting them as their own set after them.
Hi,
Thanks for solution rajendraongole1 offered, and i want to offer some more information for user to refer to.
hello PetriR , based on your descriotion, please check that if you sort it descending, if it is sorting descending, it will sort befoe the "ebikes".
And you can try to remove the visual, then recreate it and sort the field.
After tesing, it can work in my sample.
If the soution above cannot solve it, you can consider to add a custom column in power query.
=Text.Upper([Column1])Then in power bi desktop, select the column1 and the select sort by the custom column.
Then remove the field in visual and reput it to the visual, it should work.
Best Regards!
Yolo Zhu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
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HI PetriR - You can create a calculated column in Power BI that converts all the text to lowercase or uppercase, and then sort your visual based on this column instead of the original text.
Eg: SortColumn = LOWER([YourColumnName]) for Lower for upper you can use it for uniformly set the same.
After creating this column, you can go to the "Sort by Column" option and choose the new column for sorting.
or in Power Query Editor, select the column, then choose Transform > Format > Lowercase or Uppercase.
I hope it works.
Hey, thanks for the fast answer but we don't want to change the data since they are product and service names so they need to retain their capitalization.
Hi,
Thanks for solution rajendraongole1 offered, and i want to offer some more information for user to refer to.
hello PetriR , based on your descriotion, please check that if you sort it descending, if it is sorting descending, it will sort befoe the "ebikes".
And you can try to remove the visual, then recreate it and sort the field.
After tesing, it can work in my sample.
If the soution above cannot solve it, you can consider to add a custom column in power query.
=Text.Upper([Column1])Then in power bi desktop, select the column1 and the select sort by the custom column.
Then remove the field in visual and reput it to the visual, it should work.
Best Regards!
Yolo Zhu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Thanks for the reply but the data is sorted correctly in the table view but not in the gantt chart. The structure in the gantt is so that there is one data field which categorizes these fields which are not sorting correctly therefore they are not in the "top" level but in the second. So if I remove the top level categorization the sorting works.
Hi PetriR
Thanks for your quick reply, can you provide the picture to show the problem you faced, and hide the private information.
Best Regards!
Yolo Zhu
