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Doby42
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6 years ago
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Top N filter is sorting whole number wrong

I'm confused as to why the "Top N" for the whole number field of yearnbr wouldn't pick the same order as sort order?  Any suggestions? I worked around it by creating a rankx column for year, and the...
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    Doby42
    6 years ago

    Thanks for posting.  Looking at your pbix file I noticed that it was sum of year.  The issue is I'm using a date table that has far more than just year.  So my sum of yearnbr is causing the issue.  Being a leap year the total for 2016 is higher than 2017.

     

    Once I changed from sum to max value the sort order was correct.  

     

     

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v-lid-msft
Community Support
6 years ago

Hi Doby42 ,

 

Based on my test, the TOPN Filter works fine on my side, could you please reproduce this issue in my shared sample pbix file?

 

 


BTW, pbix as attached.

 

Best regards,

Community Support Team _ Dong Li
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  • Doby42's avatar
    Doby42
    Frequent Visitor
    6 years ago

    Thanks for posting.  Looking at your pbix file I noticed that it was sum of year.  The issue is I'm using a date table that has far more than just year.  So my sum of yearnbr is causing the issue.  Being a leap year the total for 2016 is higher than 2017.

     

    Once I changed from sum to max value the sort order was correct.