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Sort months in chronological order
Hi ArtFi. Can you combine your desired month number with a year prefix to give it a list of one-to-one values? For example, if you want 2015 to be ordered Jan then Feb etc., they would be numbered 201501, 201502. If you wanted 2016 to be ordered Mar, Jan, Feb, then March would still get 201601, then 201602 for Jan and 201603 for Feb. You'd just need to find some way to define the custom sort order in your column, either through a conditional column or maybe hard-coding the values in an Excel table.
If it's just that a year doesn't start with January because there is no January for that year (e.g., no sales for that month), you could still use the YYYYMM format to sort your months, and if the year starts with March, it won't hurt your chronological sort order anyway.
As CheenuSing mentioned, you’d better create a calendar table with similar formula as below if you don’t have.
CalendarTable = CALENDAR ( "1/1/2015", "12/31/2016" )
Then create relationship between these two tables with date key.
Create three columns in the Calendar table. Select MonthName column and make it sorted by YearMonth column.
YearMonth = YEAR ( CalendarTable[Date] ) * 100 + MONTH ( CalendarTable[Date] )
MonthName = FORMAT ( CalendarTable[Date], "mmmm yyyy" )
Year = YEAR ( CalendarTable[Date] )
Now you should be able to sort months as below. Make sure you select the MonthName column in Calendar table for Axis.
Best Regards,
Herbert
Hi,
v-haibl-msft , Could you please let us know why are you multiplying the year value in "YearMonth" colum.Since if we change any number instead of 100 the expected result is not coming.
YearMonth = YEAR ( CalendarTable[Date] ) * 100 + MONTH ( CalendarTable[Date] )