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Krishna Sankar on 30 Jul 2015 05:43:14

I should be able to order the "legend" and the values for each legend category in a stacked bar chart. This is similar to "series order" feature in Excel

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5fb13a7b 2002-4ff1-a811-bc0ee047bf10 on 16 Aug 2020 04:19:04

RE: Custom order for legend

please make this happen! i am getting this request for my dashboard by all the engineers who are ready to push management to switch out of PBI!

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aa7df4a9 ca86-4402-8790-7aefa5bde7e3 on 16 Aug 2020 04:19:00

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why doesn't powerbi come with a host of features that were basic and completely necessary in excel 20 years ago? something something modern data vizualization, AI quantum teleportation hurr hurr hurr

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faacbdee 0f94-4791-9f96-c56040cf3d2c on 16 Aug 2020 04:19:00

RE: Custom order for legend

Seriously this is still not out yet!! How do you expect end users to understand when I export the dashboard as pdf and send it over??

How will they understand what is impacting the most, when its not sort by values?

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870810e0 399e-4c4e-bf2e-02aceca1d804 on 16 Aug 2020 04:18:17

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please make this happen

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305170fd 1071-e911-a960-000d3a4f3883 on 16 Aug 2020 04:18:16

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Really need this.

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a694ab2d b908-48a6-90cf-26ebe5152e98 on 16 Aug 2020 04:18:15

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Please make this happen. I can't believe we need build custom measures as workarounds.

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4c57b664 7e59-42ca-a05a-8868ad2f55c4 on 16 Aug 2020 04:17:54

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This is crazy that there is even no workaround for this...
If user wants to have legend on right side or left side it is doable only in reverted order!

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aae85563 f8b1-402a-ba4f-db46236cecd1 on 16 Aug 2020 04:17:24

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I've been able to do this with a stacked bar chart by making a sort column for the category column.

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906c1217 719a-4731-b09b-12e1e52d636a on 16 Aug 2020 04:17:24

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I am aware that this is currently possible by creating measures for each legend item and creating a stacked column chart instead, and it works a treat.

But this is too much work for most of our users who wants fast, intuitive charts from their data.

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7d759c7f df72-4fcc-a523-52f16ba98228 on 16 Aug 2020 04:17:23

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When can we expect the implementation, really struggling to convince users that Power BI does not have this basic & simple feature. Please bring this feature at earliest. Thank you