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OlegV
Helper III
4 years ago
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Sort Week Day Names by Date

Hello, I need to create a line chart, to show a price change during a week (from Friday to Thursday).   But I am not able to sort WeekDay names BY DATE. The result I get is the following: ...
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  • moizsherwani's avatar
    moizsherwani
    4 years ago

    I think I found a bug in PowerBI, if you intitially setup the sort of WEEKDAYNAME to be by WEEKDAYNUM = WEEKDAY([date]) and then change the formula of WEEKDAYNUM = DATEVALUE([date]) it continue to sort correctly on the graph. If you try to sort it by column again then it gives this error. That said, this may not be the best solution so please find another solution below

     

    Put the date on the X Axis and change the format of date to be 'ddd'. Make sure the X axis is changed from Continuous to Categorical. Also if you need to keep the oringinal date column as well you can simply make the WeekDayNum a duplicate of the Date column using = [Date]. Let me know if this works

     

     

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moizsherwani
Continued Contributor
4 years ago

You can create a column called "WeekDayNum" using the formula below and Sort "WeekDayName" by WeekDayNum"

 

 

WeekDayNum = WEEKDAY('Sample'[Date])

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • OlegV's avatar
    OlegV
    Helper III
    4 years ago

    Thank you for a reply, but I need to sort WeekDay names BY DATE, not by Weekday number.

    • moizsherwani's avatar
      moizsherwani
      Continued Contributor
      4 years ago

      Instead of using the WEEKDAY function use DATEVALUE function and sort by the same column. Does that get you what you need?

       

       

      WeekDayNum = DATEVALUE('Sample'[Date])

       

       

       

       

      • OlegV's avatar
        OlegV
        Helper III
        4 years ago

        I see that you get the result I need, but it does not allow me to sort WeekdayName by weekdayNum.