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Sorting two date columns
Hi V-lianl-msft , I solved it by bringing in the month number directly from the data source, along with the month name. I could then sort the month name by the month number and this looked to solve the issue.
Initially I'd created a month number column within Power BI, based off of the date, and then sort the month name by this column but this didn't work.
Create a month Sort column and mark it as sort column
sort Month = format(date[date],"YYYYMM")
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Hi amitchandak , thanks for your suggestion. But when I try to do this, it gives me the error message "this column can't be sorted by a column that is already sorted, directly or indirectly, by column".
I don't remember sorting any other columns by this...but is it possible for me to double-check this?
Please make sure the sort column is not based on month-year column. Both of them can be based on the same base column-like Date.
Hi amitchandak , can you go through the steps again please? It doesn't seem to have worked for me.
I have the following columns:
RaisedDate RaisedYear RaisedMonth DeliveryDate DeliveryYear DeliveryMonth Quantity 2020-01-03 2020 January 2020-03-14 2020 March 250 2020-01-06 2020 January 2020-05-05 2020 May 100 When I create a hierarchy slicer for DeliveryYear and Month, I get the following.