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Anonymous
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Sorting a Matrix by Drilldown Columns

Greetings to all,

 

I am a fairly new user to powerBI and was working on creating a timeline.

 

I have created the timeline in a matrix using dax and conditional formatting. After this I wanted to add further information about the product and added further columns. To visualize it as a single line I turned off Stepped Layout from Row Headers.

The issue I have is that I cannot sort the matrix by the Type or Line column seen in the screenshot below, it can only be sorted by the first column.

 

Is there a way to sort drilldown columns in a matrix?

("Drilldown columns" may not be the appropriate definition but I didn't see a similar issue to mine so tried my best to describe it)

 

2021-09-23_09h29_46.png

 

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lbendlin
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@Anonymous try this simple trick: sort the first column by the drilldown column (or by an equivalent but unique column )

Anonymous
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Hi @lbendlin, thank you for the response. This solution does a part of what I desire but not quite.

By doing this I can sort the column by another column, but then I can't re-sort it using a different one. I want to sort the matrix by clicking on the header, inside the report view. The end user should use it.

2021-09-27_08h28_56.png2021-09-27_08h30_44.png2021-09-27_08h30_34.png

So in the screenshots above I clicked on different header but could just sort by the first column. (Or the column which was used to sort the first.)

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