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Sorting ability for reports in PowerBI.com

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TJ Brown on 10 Feb 2015 03:08:47

Currently, there's no sorting mechanism for the reports in PowerBI.com. We need a mechanism to sort categories by their associated measure values.

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e4a7a26e da0e-4853-a4b7-c9abf3563aa7 on 05 Jul 2020 22:30:33

RE: Sorting ability for reports in PowerBI.com

Agree, this is not fixed. Need to sort by count of values within a month, so the categories with the largest counts show at the bottom of the stacked column.

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41b3c6a0 e41c-e811-813a-e0071b6ad011 on 05 Jul 2020 22:29:31

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This is NOT completed you Liars at Microsoft!!!!

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6b5bc4d1 18cd-4c82-9075-eea078528f73 on 05 Jul 2020 22:24:25

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I'm going through the same issue. For some reason, I can't sort my data by sale amount as it is pre formatted to sort my data by alphabetical order after drilling it down. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

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c964267d 7169-4331-b350-2298e64fbbd1 on 05 Jul 2020 22:22:17

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I'm having this same issue. Creating a dashboard for responses to a survey. I have stacked bar graphs that show number of responses from 'strongly disagree' to 'strongly agree', but Power BI sorts these alphabetically which makes no sense on the chart. I obviously need to have negative responses in red on the left, and positive responses in green on the right and I can't figure this out. It seems like such a basic function I don't know how this isn't already possible.

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91e8e61d f319-4a35-b86b-9274fca716b0 on 05 Jul 2020 22:18:23

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Hi

I imported data from excel.When I create a line graph the days are not displayed in order (i.e on the x-axis it displays Monday Sunday Thursday...)

Please assist

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07d290db ee9f-4eb5-a467-87b61d5de0c7 on 05 Jul 2020 22:14:46

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If you click on the "..." on the top right of the chart, there is an option to "Sort by". Choose the field that you see fit.

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51af7a26 29e1-4bb2-8bdd-f3007eab72ab on 05 Jul 2020 22:06:45

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Please provide option to sort on Month as shown in the example of the Power BI app.

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aed1fd17 fa23-48c1-979a-4ca553fec611 on 05 Jul 2020 22:04:27

RE: Sorting ability for reports in PowerBI.com

Will - on May 11, you said the next Power BI update would include the ability to sort one column by another. Please list the steps to sort by another column here. I can't find it. Thx

Will Thompson (Product Manager, Power BI, Microsoft Power BI) commented · May 11, 2015 09:37 · Flag as inappropriate
In the next release of the Power BI Designer we'll expose the ability to sort one column by another (as you could in PowerPivot).

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2189ed83 43ab-4e12-aabc-850f86e25fdd on 05 Jul 2020 22:04:18

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Any updates on this topic?? I'll be a really helpful feature... tahnks!!

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f10eb0bc 4331-4ebf-8e3d-b132b79714c8 on 05 Jul 2020 22:02:59

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Hi Will. Right clicking on a bar graph does not bring up any menu. It is not sorted by date and I need it to be. Can you advise ? Regards, Keith