Transpose axis values in chart

[Anonymous]

I want to create a chart from this data:

Financial Year ending	Projects under $20K	Projects $21K - $50k	Projects $51k - $100k	Projects over $100k	Total
30/06/2010	5	3	5	18	31
30/06/2011	11	8	9	14	42
30/06/2012	11	12	5	16	44
30/06/2013	8	8	11	28	55
30/06/2014	3	8	1	8	20
30/06/2015	1	2	4	2	9
30/06/2016	0	0	1	6	7
30/06/2017	0	0	1	5	6
30/06/2018	0	4	1	5	10
30/06/2019	0	1	1	2	4

that has the categories (Projects under $20k, etc) on the X-axis and the number on the y-axis, sorted by financial year.  I can show the chart with the financial year on the X-axis, but not the categories.

Any help appreciated.

Steve

[d_gosbell]

The easiest way to do this would be to unpivot this data so that it's structured as follows (excluding the Total column). Then you should easily be able to put Categories on X and Year on Y

Financial Year ending	Categories	Project Count
30/06/2010	Projects under $20K	5
30/06/2010	Projects $21K - $50k	3
30/06/2010	Projects $51k - $100k	5
30/06/2010	Projects over $100k	18
30/06/2011	Projects under $20K	11
30/06/2011	Projects $21K - $50k	8
30/06/2011	Projects $51k - $100k	9
30/06/2011	Projects over $100k	14

[Anonymous]

Thank you. Your solution works, except for one thing.

When applied to the chart it shows the categories in a different order than shown in the table. It appears an alphabetical order is applied to the data. I added a conditional column to try to change the order. This works only if the next level of the heirarchy is selected and it shows the heirarchical number on the x-axis. See attached.

Is there a way to show the data in the correct order, with the correct category labels?

Thanks

Steve

[d_gosbell · Accepted solution]

Column values are always sorted alphabetically by default. You can override this by setting a sort by column in the table designer. You could create a calculated column wth a switch statement to create a numeric ordering

CategoryOrder =SWITCH( [Category]

, "Projects under $20K", 1

,  Projects $21K - $50k, 2

etc...

)

Then click on the [Category] column in the field list, switch to the "Modeling" tab on the ribbon and click on the "Sort by Column" button and choose the new [CategoryOrder] column. 

I also typically hide any ordering columns like this one as they are only needed for overriding the default alphabetical sorting.

[Anonymous]

Thank you. I was also able to apply the same approach to the conditional column that I had created initially. I did not work until I used the Sort by Column command.

Steve