Custom sort by number of days

[paulhazelwood]

I have just started using Power BI so I am still learning.

I have a stacked column chart with data which shows how many days something is due.

The columns are listed as 1, 10, 11, 12......., 2, 20, 21, 22,......3, 30, 31, 32 and so on.

How can I get it in true number order.

[v-yulgu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @paulhazelwood,

Please make sure the data type of this column (listed as 1, 10, 11, 12......., 2, 20,) is set to whole number rather than Text.

Best regards,

Yuliana Gu

[edhans]

Check out this article on sorting columns by a different column. You specifically want the Sort by Column button section.

I'd need to mock up a file, but I would think the columns would sort in numerical order if those were numbers. Off-hand it seems that they are text that look like numbers and that is why they are sorting that way. Perhaps convert them to numbers in Power Query would do the trick as well.

[paulhazelwood]

The data in question is not from a column. It is based on a calculation from different columns that are dates. The data then gives me the number of days something is due based on the current date.