How to sort by year and quarter?

[Anonymous]

Hi, I have a column filled with

2019 Q1, 2019 Q2, 2019 Q3, 2019 Q4, and 2020 Q1

I will like to sort based on the time sequence while the diagram only allows me to sort in ascending or decending order. Is there any way I can sort based on the time period? Thanks.

[v-lionel-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Has your problem been solved?

In fact, even if the column is a text column, the visual is arranged in ascending or descending order according to time.

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Lionel Chen

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[v-lionel-msft]

Hi @Anonymous ,

What is the data type of the column, is it text or date?

Maybe you should use date hierarchical data.

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Lionel Chen

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[amitchandak]

@Anonymous , this should sort as it is in YYYY QQ format.

Else you can have qtr start date using Quarterstartdate

or

Qtr Year sort = format([date],"YYYYQ")

mark one of the two as the sort column :https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-sort-by-column

[parry2k]

@Anonymous Look at my post at link below and it has sort option for quarters as well.

https://perytus.com/2020/05/22/create-a-basic-date-table-in-your-data-model-for-time-intelligence-calculations/

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