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Jolyon's avatar
Jolyon
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9 years ago

how to sort Date (MonthYear column)?

Hello, need urgent help of yours:   I have a column Date (e.g. 01.01.2016), then I added columns Month and Year and concatenated them to get the column MonthYear(e.g. January2016):     No...
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tringuyenminh92
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9 years ago

Hi Jolyon,

 

In case you want to sort by Year and Month of date, you could add Calcuated column for YearMonthInt as:

YearMonthInt = Dates[Date].[Year]*100 +  Dates[Date].[MonthNo]

Then choose MonthYear column and choose sort by YearMonthInt column.

 

 

If this works for you please accept it as solution and also like to give KUDOS.

Best regards
Tri Nguyen

  • Jolyon's avatar
    Jolyon
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    9 years ago

    hi tringuyenminh92
    could you please also tell, how you concatenated MonthYear?

    Question to this formula:   YearMonthInt = Dates[Date].[Year]*100 +  Dates[Date].[MonthNo]  : is Dates the name of table? "Year" and "MonthNo" are your columns or DAX functions?

    because in my case PowerBI underlines this formula as red: YearMonthInt = Client[Datum].[Jahr]*100 +  Client[Datum].[Mon]

     

    thank you kindly!

    • tringuyenminh92's avatar
      tringuyenminh92
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      9 years ago

      When we cast Date column to Date type, PBI will suport us to access its Month (month name) and Month value (MonthNo)

      My MonthYear= Dates[Date].[Month] & "-" & Dates[Date].[Year]

      I think your expression of YearMonthInt is correct, just choose sort by column.

       

      • Jolyon's avatar
        Jolyon
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        9 years ago

        tringuyenminh92
        hm, it is a bit strange, because I get error message from Power BI, that says : the variation column Month and Year couldn't be found in the table:

         

        Table1 is name of my table; Date is name of my Date column; I have Date in format dd.mm.yyyy.
        I tried both German and English in the formula for the Month and Year, but it doesn't work.

        And the same problem with YearMonthInt = Dates[Date].[Year]*100 +  Dates[Date].[MonthNo]  --> in my report I get error message.

         

        Is DATES in your report the name of your table?

        thanks for the help!

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    8 years ago

    Hi tringuyenminh92 I am having this kind of data in reports and also wnat to sort as same Jolyon sorting for his reports 

    means if multiple years data we have first it will sort by year in that case . But how to prepared calculate colum for above scenario as per above data. help me here i am new to DAX querys. also not having date column in my all tables so please suggest me how to achive that sorting on multiple year data  

     

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    6 years ago

     This worked for me!  Thanks!

  • SA_NYC's avatar
    SA_NYC
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    6 years ago

    Wow, I'd been looking what felt like everywhere for an answer to this problem, somehow no other site or video suggested that trick of multiplying the year by 100, that's what made it work for me. More than three years after you wrote the post, too. Thanks!

  • yatsunau's avatar
    yatsunau
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    3 years ago

    wow this is one of the question from PL-300 certifications!

    where do you learn this?