Sort Colum in Power Query with Month Text

[JoaoMS]

Dear all, I have a table with two columns which shows the exchange rate of two currencies per month. The raw data is like this (spanish):

MonthYear	ER
Ene19	3.332
Feb19	3.304
Mar19	3.320
Abr19	3.309
May19	3.376
Jun19	3.290
Jul19	3.310
Ago19	3.398
Sep19	3.350
Oct19	3.400
Nov19	3.314
Dic19	3.378
Ene20	3.460
Feb20	3.384

However when I upload it in Power Query the table becomes like this, sort by text and I don't know how to sort it back in PowerQuery:

MonthYear	ER
Ene19	3.332
Abr19	3.309
Ago19	3.398
Dic19	3.378
Ene20	3.460
Feb19	3.304
Feb20	3.384
Jul19	3.310
Jun19	3.290
Mar19	3.320
May19	3.376
Nov19	3.314
Oct19	3.400
Sep19	3.350

The database is in the following link https://estadisticas.bcrp.gob.pe/estadisticas/series/mensuales/resultados/PN01215PM/html

Thanks in advance,

Joao

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

@JoaoMS 

You would need to replace the Spanish to English first, because the Power Bi cannot read and sort month from different languages.

After all the values are displayed in "19-Jan","19-Feb". You can just change the Data Type from text to date, then sort.

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

[Vvelarde]

Hi, you need to create an Custom Column with a format date of your string:

Example: "1-" & Text.Start([Fecha],3) & "-" & Text.End([Fecha],2)

After that Parse in Date Menu. 

Its possible that fail with Months in Spanish so replace before parse: Example: 1-Ene-96  to 1-Jan-96

Finally Sort by this new column

Regards

Victor 

[amitchandak]

You need to create sort column and mark it as the sort column for the month year

Month year sort = format([Date],"YYYYMM")

[JoaoMS]

Thank you for the quick response, but it seems that is DAX, is it possible to do the same in Power Query?

Regards.

[amitchandak]

@JoaoMS 

Refer:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/date-totext

example

Date.ToText(#date(2010, 12, 31), "yyyyMM")