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Sorting Years and Months in Line Chart
I have a dataset with 2 years of retail transactions and the data includes Month and Year columnhs. I am trying to create a line chart to show decline in total cost over years and months but i can't get it to sort correctly.
littlepatos2 You will need a numeric Sort By column for your Month, something like MONTH('Table'[Date]) and then set that as your Sort By column for your alphanumeric month name column.
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littlepatos2 ,
Create a new month table with Months and Month Number. Sort Months by the Month number. Connect this table to original date table or whichever table you are pulling fields from on Month. Pull month from this new table into line chart.littlepatos2 You will need a numeric Sort By column for your Month, something like MONTH('Table'[Date]) and then set that as your Sort By column for your alphanumeric month name column.
Hi littlepatos2 ,
First of all, many thanks to for your very quick and effective replies.
I can't open the link.
Based on my testing, please try the following methods:
1.Create the simple table.
2.Select the Date column and choose the sort by values column.
3.The result is shown below.
Best Regards,
Wisdom Wu
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