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Sort Text Column in Power BI
How can I Sort my Column in Power BI?
My Column is
I Want it to be in ascending Order. I tried to sort using visual option but no result. Please help me...
Hi Anonymous
If you want to sort the column ascendingly by the interger part before "D", you need to add a column for sorting. In Power Query Editor, extract the interger part into a new column: under Add Column, select Extract > Text Before Delimiter and enter D in Delimiter textbox. And change the data type to Whole number.
After applying changes into Power BI Desktop, sort the original column by the new column. At last, select Sort ascending on the visual.
I don't add the new column with DAX because it will bring a circular dependency error when sorting the column by the new column. Hope this helps.
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Community Support Team _ Jing
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Anonymous , In every visual you have the option under three dots to sort on column and order ,
if not you can use sort column of your choice
How to Create Sort Column and Solve Related Errors: https://youtu.be/KK1zu4MBb-c
Hi Anonymous
If you want to sort the column ascendingly by the interger part before "D", you need to add a column for sorting. In Power Query Editor, extract the interger part into a new column: under Add Column, select Extract > Text Before Delimiter and enter D in Delimiter textbox. And change the data type to Whole number.
After applying changes into Power BI Desktop, sort the original column by the new column. At last, select Sort ascending on the visual.
I don't add the new column with DAX because it will bring a circular dependency error when sorting the column by the new column. Hope this helps.
Regards,
Community Support Team _ Jing
If this post helps, please Accept it as the solution to help other members find it.
