Sort Month Year

[Anonymous]

Hello, 

I am having trouble sorting the dates Below. I created an additional column based off our Ship date. The column I created is

YearMonth(Ship) = 'FBAP Event Detail Fact'[ship_dt].[Year]&"-"&'FBAP Event Detail Fact'[ship_dt].[Month]

How can I possibly sort the column below.

I tried using the formula below but I get a text error.

Sort_YearMonth(Ship) = 'FBAP Event Detail Fact'[ship_dt].[Year] * 100 + 'FBAP Event Detail Fact'[ship_dt].[Month]​

[Ashish_Mathur]

Hi,

You should ideally create a Calendar Table with Year and Month extracted via these calculated column formulas

Year = year(calendar[date])

Month name = format(calendar[date],"mmmm")

Month number = month(calendar[date])

Sort the Month name column by the month number column.  Ensure there is a relationship from the ship_dt column to the date column of the calendar table.  To the x-axis of your visual, drag Year and Month from the Calendar table.

Hope this helps. 

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi

Could I ask, have you attempted to sort by the visual and it has sorted them alphabetically.

If so, I would suggest using a data table, linking to the date in your table. You are able to create custom columns from this to display the date in your desired format I.e. 202010 or 2020 - April/ yyyy-mmm

https://www.archerpoint.com/blog/Posts/creating-date-table-power-bi#:~:text=In%20your%20report%2C%20...