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jsnadams
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9 years ago

Sort by another column error : "We cannot sort the "foo" column by "bar"

I keep hitting this issue trying to sort by another column, where I have many incidents that occur in a single day, my goal is to sort the table first by calendar day, then by the incidents, in the order of most incients counts to least incident counts;

 

Sample Data;

DateIncidentsIncidentCount
11/8/2016IncidentA5
11/8/2016IncidentB50
11/8/2016IncidentC3
11/7/2016IncidentD100
11/7/2016IncidentE5
11/7/2016IncidentF70

 

This is the output I would like:

DateIncidentsIncidentCount
11/8/2016IncidentB50
11/8/2016IncidentA5
11/8/2016IncidentC3
11/7/2016IncidentD100
11/7/2016IncidentF70
11/7/2016IncidentE5

 

But I keep getting this error when I sort by another column:

 

"Sort by Another Column Error"  "We cannot sort the "foo" column by "bar".  You can't have more that one value in "foo" for the same value in "bar".  Choose a different column for sorting or update the data in "bar".

3 Replies

  • You can use the matrix visualization to see the sorting by the calendar day and Incident Count.

     

    Alternatively, You can also create a third calculated column to combine the two columns using CONCATENATE and do the sorting by that column.

     

     

    • jsnadams's avatar
      jsnadams
      New Member

      Thanks you for your response, but that is what I tried to do, but notice the Date column gets re-sorted, where I need to see most current date at the top, then I need to see IncidentCount sorted, my example I used Excel to do this (first sort one column, then sort a 2nd column), so I am hoping there is a way to also do this in Power BI?