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FlowViz
Helper III
Helper III

Sorting by another column

Hey Guys,

 

I have a line chart where I'm showing the data points for items in a particular column (ColumnName):

 

Screenshot 2021-03-08 at 23.37.20.png

I want to be able to sort by ColumnOrder, but getting the following error:

 

Screenshot 2021-03-08 at 23.37.13.png

 

Data looks like so:

 

Screenshot 2021-03-08 at 23.35.08.png

 

Is there anyway around this?

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FlowViz
Helper III
Helper III

Ah so actually taking Done out of the dataset (as it's not in the chart) would be the best idea 🙂

FlowViz
Helper III
Helper III

I'm not quite sure I understand. In the report I only want to have the chart, I just put the table to the right hand side to show the underlying data.

 

So I want the chart to have categories of:

In Progress | Review | Sign off | Ready for Prod | In Prod or look like this:

 

WIP Age.png

Hi,

What do you not understand in my previous post?


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/
FlowViz
Helper III
Helper III

Sure thing - here it is

Hi,

I see 2 problems with the numbers appearing in the ColumnOrder column.  For Done and Review the number is 3.  This cannot be the case - assign different numbers.  Also, Done cannot have 2 numbers - 3 and 7.  Correct for that as well.  After that click on any cell in the ColumnName column and sort it the ColumnOrder column.


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/
Ashish_Mathur
Super User
Super User

Hi,

Share the download link of your PBI file.


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/

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