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Anonymous
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Waterfall visual issue: Sort by breakdown group

Hello, I am facing an issue of sorting by breakdown name in waterfall. Below is my exaple:

 

Waterfall.JPG

 

The Power BI will sort waterfall by size of the value but I hope to make "Specialty" always dispaly at first position. I saw some post that if you click the "..." button at the top right and you will see an option of "sort by name" but I didn't see that option on my power bi desktop. Additionaly, I tried "sort by column" and it worked in every visuals except waterfall.

 

Please let me know if anyone has a solution or faced same issue like me.

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v-frfei-msft
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Hi @Anonymous,

 

I made a test based on this vison of desktop 2.60.5169.3201 64-bit (July 2018), I cannot reproduce your issue here. Both methods you offered worked well. Could you please have a try to use the latest version? If the issue is still occurred, kindly share your sample data to me.

 

1.png

 

For more details, please check the pbix as attached.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pty7gfrz2rot4q3/Waterfall%20visual%20issue%20Sort%20by%20breakdown%20group.pbix?dl=0

 

Regards,

Frank

Community Support Team _ Frank
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the others find it more quickly.

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v-frfei-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @Anonymous,

 

I made a test based on this vison of desktop 2.60.5169.3201 64-bit (July 2018), I cannot reproduce your issue here. Both methods you offered worked well. Could you please have a try to use the latest version? If the issue is still occurred, kindly share your sample data to me.

 

1.png

 

For more details, please check the pbix as attached.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pty7gfrz2rot4q3/Waterfall%20visual%20issue%20Sort%20by%20breakdown%20group.pbix?dl=0

 

Regards,

Frank

Community Support Team _ Frank
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the others find it more quickly.
Anonymous
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Thank you so much Frank!

I am using the march 2018 version and believe that will be the problem.

Hi @Anonymous,

 

Kindly mark my answer as a solurion if you feel that makes sense. Thanks in advance

 

Regards,

Frank

Community Support Team _ Frank
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the others find it more quickly.

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