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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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Jonathon on 05 Jul 2020 22:30:33

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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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Larry Casey on 05 Jul 2020 22:29:31

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

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Power BI User 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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Stuart 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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Pregz 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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Ricky Benson 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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Rupesh Kumar 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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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:04:27

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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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Power BI User 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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Power BI User 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