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Hi everyone,
I have a matrix table with a 4-level hierarchy (so four columns in the 'Rows' section): Customer name and Date.
The first column is Customer name which is sorted alphabetically ascending.
The other 3 columns I need sorted descending.
So the desired sort order would be like this:
| - Customer A |
| - A3 |
| 01-03-2024 |
| 01-12-2023 |
| 01-06-2023 |
| 01-10-2022 |
| + A2 |
| - A1 |
| 01-06-2019 |
| 01-04-2019 |
| 01-03-2019 |
| 01-10-2018 |
| + Customer B |
| + Customer C |
How can this be achieved?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi @GKJARC
You need a "sort column" for every hierarchy level in your table with the needed order and sort the columns from the data view:
For a date column, you should use a date table create the column with the numeric date value and multiply it to (-1):
Result :
pbix is attached
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@Ritaf1983 This works, thank you very much!
Be aware though that Number.From([Date]) doesn't always work well with datetime. For datetime I ended up using this SQL to get an inverted number from date: DATEDIFF(MINUTE, EE.ENTRYDATE, '2099-12-31T23:59:59') AS DateInvertedSorting
Hi @GKJARC
You need a "sort column" for every hierarchy level in your table with the needed order and sort the columns from the data view:
For a date column, you should use a date table create the column with the numeric date value and multiply it to (-1):
Result :
pbix is attached
If this post helps, then please consider Accepting it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly
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