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Sort by Another Column error message for Date field
Hello, I'm new to Power BI. Very simple issue: Ive created two slicers: by Year and by Month. Have a date field in the table. Created new fields Month (number), Year (number), Month Name. I want my Month slicer be sorted by Month Name. When select Month to sort by - get error message Sort by Another column. What I'm doing wrong?
Thank you in advance!!!
Hello, thank you for your response. Below are how I've created my columns based on OrderDate:
Year = YEAR(<table>[OrderDate])
Month = MONTH(<table>[OrderDate])
MonthName = FORMAT(DATE(1,<table>[Month],1),"MMM")
When I have just one year- your scenario works. But for the span of multiple years I get that error message. So I've found the solution. Created 2 new fields: one like yyyymm (integer), another yyyy/ <month name>. It works
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Hi Anonymous ,
By my test with your scenario, I create the month and year column based on the date column with MONTH() and YEAR() function.
And create the Month Name with 'Table'[Date].[Month].
By sorting Month by month name, that is works as expected.
How do you create the month name column?
For your error, if you create the month name based on the month column, I think you will have this error.
In addition, please check if you have sorted by other column.
If you still need help, please share your data sample and your desired output.
In addition, you could refer to my attachement.
Best Regards,
Cherry
Hello, thank you for your response. Below are how I've created my columns based on OrderDate:
Year = YEAR(<table>[OrderDate])
Month = MONTH(<table>[OrderDate])
MonthName = FORMAT(DATE(1,<table>[Month],1),"MMM")
When I have just one year- your scenario works. But for the span of multiple years I get that error message. So I've found the solution. Created 2 new fields: one like yyyymm (integer), another yyyy/ <month name>. It works
