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RoundedWheels
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Reordering months

By default charts show months in the x-axis starting in January and ending in December. However, I'd like the x-axis to follow the same order of our fiscal year, which starts in July and ends in June. How can I get this?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

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Fowmy
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@RoundedWheels 

Create a column in your calendar table to sort the months/year in Fiscal month order as shown in the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0peKz7XjEdw

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Jihwan_Kim
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Hi, @RoundedWheels 

Please check the below picture and the sample pbix file's link down below.

I suggest creating a new column for the purpose of "sort by fiscal year".

In your case, please write a formula something like the below for creating a new column for a sorting purpose.

 

Month Name Sort FY CC =
SWITCH (
TRUE (),
Dates[Month Name Sort CC] IN { 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 }, Dates[Month Name Sort CC] - 6,
Dates[Month Name Sort CC] + 6
)

 

Picture2.png

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/eiw7gf02cx8p92y/roundedwheels.pbix?dl=0 

 

 

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Thanks a lot @Jihwan_Kim .

In understand how you create that column with a number in the right order (i.e. July=1, August=2, etc.). But, how do you make the Chart use that order to display the month names in the X-axis? Is there any property in the Chart fields that allow you to decide whether using "Month Name Sort CC" or "Month Named Sort FY CC"?

Fowmy
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@RoundedWheels 

Create a column in your calendar table to sort the months/year in Fiscal month order as shown in the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0peKz7XjEdw

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Thanks @Fowmy , very clear!

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