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jjr333
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Sort alphanumeric column by an numeric column

Hi,

I have a datatable with air pollution readings.

8-4-2019 17-35-40.png

"Wind Dir" is derived from the column "Dirección" (which contains the direction in degrees) by using a "bucket table" / lookup table.

Wind Dir = IF (ISBLANK(factSanSeb[Dirección]);BLANK();
                CALCULATE(  
                            VALUES(WindDirection[Direction]); 
                            FILTER(WindDirection; factSanSeb[Dirección] >= WindDirection[Low] && factSanSeb[Dirección] < WindDirection[Hi])
                        ) )


I have added "WindDirOrder" column (N = 1, NE = 2, E = 3, etc using an unrelated lookup table) to be able to sort column "Wind Dir", which does not seem to work in the bar charts and radar chart.

8-4-2019 17-57-58.png

 

Any suggestions? Cheers, Julian

 

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Hi @v-shex-msft ,

Finally got it to work.

My problem was the added Calculated column X (with the sort order) depended on another Calculated column Y which I wanted to sort by X.

Cheers, Julian

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TomMartens
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Hey,

 

I guess this is what you are looking for: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-sort-by-column#sort-using-the-sort-by-column-butto...

 

Please be have a look for the section "Sort using the Sort by Column button" on the above mentioned site. You have to order the columns in the table that you are using in your visuals.

 

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Tom



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Guten Abend Tom,

I keep getting a message "Sorting on a different column: This column cannot be sorted by a column which has already (direct or indirect) been sorted by this column."

My sort by column is a calculated column. Not sure if this is important.

Cheers, Julian

 

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HI @jjr333 ,

You can create a calculate table to achieve this, please refer to following blog to know more about this:

Custom Sorting in Power BI

Please understand that this link is provided with no warranties or guarantees of content changes, and confers no rights.

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

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HI @jjr333 ,

You need to extract category value from fact table and add index field, then configure 'sort by column' feature on new table category fields and create relationship.
After these steps, You can use custom sort table fields to replace original table column fields.

BTW, I don't think it is possible to custom direction axis for radar chart.

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Community Support Team _ Xiaoxin
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Hi @v-shex-msft ,

Finally got it to work.

My problem was the added Calculated column X (with the sort order) depended on another Calculated column Y which I wanted to sort by X.

Cheers, Julian

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