Forum Discussion
Sort table strings
In this scenario, if you don't want to sort the value in alphabet order, you must have an sort number column (like your Index column). You can have the TextString column sort by that index column and you don't need to put the index column into table visual at all. Just click the TextString field, then select the index column in "Sort by Column".
Regards,
Using your new text, I'm able to get the correct sort using my steps. Do you have the latest version of the Desktop program? What does the Order by look like within the Modeling tab?
This is what I started with:
This is the modeling tab:
And this is the visualization:
Additionally, if you want to use the long sentence and word wrap, you can use the custom visualization LongTextVisualizer: https://app.powerbi.com/visuals/
HTH,
Jessica
HI Jessica,
And thanks for your propsed solution!
However, it does not really give me the result I'm after. This is what I have done in modelling:
And this is what the table visualization look like:
If I keep the Index column as visible in the Table visual, I can sort on that. But I don't want to display the index.
Did I interpret your suggested solution correctly?
//Eva-Lotta
I can also add that having the comments as a long text string instead of several different rows does not work (for me, at least). This leads to a "wide" table with a scroll bar, no page breaks.
It seems like there is no built-in feature to add word wrap yet: "We are starting to look into adding word wrap to tables, matrices and cards. While we don’t yet have a date to give you, I wanted to let you know that we are listening and we are starting to investigate this feature." (written in august)
//ELR