Bar Chart: sort x-axis on Year and Month while displaying Month as Text

[bschmiedeler]

I am showing a bar chart with date data on the x-axis. I want to group the data by Year Month, like so:

Here I have data from June 2019 to February 2020, grouped by Month. The years are at the bottom as I am not concantanating the labels. 

Someone made a hierarchy for me called Arrived Year Hierarchy and that allowed me to get the sort correct. The only thing I would like to do now, and it is really just a nice to have, but I would prefer to keep the sort on Year/Month but report month in text, so 6 is June and so on. I have read several posts but cannot glean from them what to do.

[parry2k · Accepted solution]

@bschmiedeler you should use sort by feature,  so assuming you have Month in text, Jan. Feb...March...and so on,

add another column in your model for month number

Month Number = MONTH ( YourTable[YourDate] )

Select your Month column and go to column tools menu and from there in sort by drop down, choose Month Number. Basically you are telling that Month column is sorted by month number column.

Now if you use Month (text) column on x-axis, it will be sorted out correctly.

Would appreciate Kudos 🙂 if my solution helped.