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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.
v-haibl-msft May needs to return 1, because otherwise January of the next year would be 1, February 2 and so on. If I'd try to sort now, January of eg 2016 would before May 2015 in the chart, you see?
Please clarify
a) Do you have any Calendar or Date Table ?
b) How has this been built- is it continuous from the Minimum of Fact Table date and upto the maximum of Fact Table Date
c) What is the business rule to be applied to start a new year with different months as the first month number.
It will be good to have a sample of your data along with the data model to come out with appropriate solution.
Cheers
CheenuSing