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gauravkumar16
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2 years ago

Sorting months spanning two years

Ritaf1983     I have months starting from Sep2022 to Sep2023. In line chart, they are not appearing chronologically. Can anyone pls help how to achieve this.  
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gauravkumar16
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2 years ago

Thanks Doleary58 for replying.

 

I have a column as Month and Year in format "YYMMMM" so Sep 2022 is written as 092022.

 

Now in line chart i have put this field in X-axis. Also, I have sorted the data by this column as you explained.

 

But still it is not sorted chronologically whether you do ASC or DESC.

 

 

Isn't it?

 

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DOLEARY85
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2 years ago

Can you check that your month year serial column is numeric?

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    gauravkumar16
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    2 years ago

    Thanks for pointing that out.

    Now I have made it numeric but still it is not chronological.

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      DOLEARY85
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      2 years ago

      You may need to make the numeric column to sort by something different, try creating a calculated column that ranks the date in order:

       

      1. RankColumn = RANKX(ALL(Table), Table[Date Column], , ASC, Dense)
      2. Select the field you want to be ordered (yearmonthserial)
      3. Select column tools, sort by column, then the rank column you just made

      4. if the chart doesn't update automatically, remove the yearmonthserial field and readd it.

       

      If I answered your question, please mark my post as solution, Appreciate your Kudos 👍