Top N filter is sorting whole number wrong

[Doby42]

I'm confused as to why the "Top N" for the whole number field of yearnbr wouldn't pick the same order as sort order?  Any suggestions?
I worked around it by creating a rankx column for year, and then use that as the "by value".  But I don't think any work around should be nessary.

[v-lid-msft]

Hi @Doby42 ,

Based on my test, the TOPN Filter works fine on my side, could you please reproduce this issue in my shared sample pbix file?

BTW, pbix as attached.

Best regards,

Community Support Team _ Dong Li
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[Doby42 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for posting.  Looking at your pbix file I noticed that it was sum of year.  The issue is I'm using a date table that has far more than just year.  So my sum of yearnbr is causing the issue.  Being a leap year the total for 2016 is higher than 2017.

Once I changed from sum to max value the sort order was correct.