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Anonymous

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5 years ago

Unable to sort by month when using scatter chart

Hi. I'm using scatter plot for my report. I want to sort by month. Everything works fine until I select the legend. Picture below is when I remove legend. Picture below is when I put the...

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Super User

5 years ago

Hi Anonymous ,

There are multiple threads for this issue in this forum. See one below:

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Sort-month-name-by-month-number/m-p/1515201

Thanks,

Pragati

Anonymous

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5 years ago

Pragati11 hi, can you help me with this? https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Unable-to-sort-by-month-when-using-scatter-chart/m-p/1607957#M650042

Pragati11
Super User
5 years ago
Hi Anonymous ,

I tried something similar at my end. Below chart is witout LEGEND have got month in right sort order:

Now, when I move LEGEND to it I still get my MONTH sorted in the right order:

As I can't reproduce this issue at my end, Can you share you sample pbix file for this with both the charts on it - one with LEGEND, one without LEGEND?

Thanks,

Pragati
- Anonymous
  Not applicable
  5 years ago
  Pragati11 hi, this is the pbix link. im not sure why it doesn't work only for scatter. If I change it to line or bar chart, it sorted month in order. but i needed a scatter chart. Please help https://1drv.ms/u/s!AoKh3nlpMpSOgmSAg1TMiavknFhn?e=NDMg6m
  - Ashish_Mathur
    Super User
    5 years ago
    Hi,
    
    You should remove the time stamp from the "ACT_EXEC_COMP" column first. Then, create a Calendar Table first and then build a relationship from the "ACT_EXEC_COMP" column to the Date column of your Calendar table. In the Calendar Table, add columns for Year, Month name and Month number. Sort the Column Name by Column Number. To your visual, drag Year and Month name from the Calendar Table.