Allow Date Sorting by Another Column Like in Power Pivot

[cwoodill]

In Power Pivot, you can have dates like January, February, March, etc. as custom columns and then sort them by a different date column so that they don't sort alphabetical order but in date order. We need this feature in Power BI Preview!

[cnewell71]

Yes, please do this asap! I find it unhelpful to remove functionality in PowerPivot that you have become accustomed to Moving to using Power BI desktop should be as seamless as possible

[simon_kibsgaard]

If anyone wonders about how this is done (as I did), find out here: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/how-to-sort-a-column-by-other-column-which-is-not-used-in-the/td-p/37384