Sort quarters as per academic year

[samioberoi]

Hi 

I want to sort Sep-Nov as Q1, Dec-Feb as Q2 so on and so forth. I managed to add a calculated column changing September to Month number 1, Oct to Month number 2 etc. & then used the switch statement to put September, October, November, which i changed to month numbers 1,2,3 and put that in Quarter 1. Finally, i used the switch statement again to name Q1 as Sep-Nov and Q2  as Dec-Feb and Q3 as Mar-May and Q4 as Jun-Aug. Now when i put quarter name column as Sep-Nov, Dec-Feb, Mar-May, Jun-Aug into visual it comes in a different sorting order, while as i want Sep-Nov coming in the first column, Dec-Feb in the 2nd column and so on. 

Help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[v-stephen-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @samioberoi ,

You should sort your text range column by a numeric column.

You can create a numeric column like this.

QuarterNumber = SWITCH(MONTH([Date]),9,1,10,1,11,1,12,2,1,2,2,2,3,3,4,3,5,3,6,4,7,4,8,4)

Sort by [QuarterNumber].

You can download my attchment for more details.

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

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[samioberoi]

HI Stephen,

 It seems to be working fine. Thanks for help. Just one quick question please. If the calendar year shows the count of customers by normal calendar quarters like Jan-Mar, Apr-Jun etc. and rather than using that calendar quarter i want PBI to start counting the first quarter from Sep - Nov, Dec- Jan etc. So, i don't want PBI to count the third quarter of calendar year July, August and September and giving me the count of employees in that quarter e.g. 3000; however i want PBI to count Sep, Oct and Nov as first quarter and should count the customers for those 3 months and so on. The reason i am asking is that i had created a Date dimension table earlier, since our data file had inconsistent dates and when i linked that Date dimension table with our data file and counted that as per normal calendar quarters, it counts it as e.g. Jan-Mar 1000 customers, Apr-Jun 2000 customers, July- Sep 3000 customers and when i changed it on the date dimension table the first quarter as Sep-Nov it just gives me same count figure as it was giving me for Q2 (Apr-Jun) in the date dimension table earlier.

Hope i could explain it properly rather than confusing it.

Thanks again for your help for the previous query & looking forward for the reply on this one.

Regards

Sam

[TomásFonseca]

Have you sorted the final column by the one you previous created (the one that as the quarters as numbers)?

[samioberoi]

Hi

Yes, i did sort the final column by the previoulsy created column giving the column number. It still shows the columns in the wrong order.

Thanks