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Ability to specify custom sort (or order) on the Groups created through UI

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Ashish Singh on 01 Nov 2016 09:15:42

The newly available groups cannot be custom sorted unless additional sort column for this group is added in the model which is not so good. While creating the custom groups, Arrow buttons to move groups Up Down should be available and this order should be used by default sorting unless the user wants to sort asc or desc by some measure.

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Jasmine Ho on 07 Nov 2024 20:29:20

RE: Ability to specify custom sort (or order) on the Groups created through UI

still not available in 2024, getting quite ridiculous

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Chris Wood on 18 Dec 2023 16:01:22

RE: Ability to specify custom sort (or order) on the Groups created through UI

Just ran in to this issue now. One of about 30 issues I would've expected would have a normal, easy solution, but it requires you to obfuscate your data tables by adding additional columns, helper tables, custom DAX, etc etc, all to produce the same result you can get in Excel. Ridiculous.

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Michael Gager on 05 Dec 2023 17:19:23

RE: Ability to specify custom sort (or order) on the Groups created through UI

Ridiculous that key features such as this is absent in the product.

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G C on 22 Nov 2023 21:44:04

RE: Ability to specify custom sort (or order) on the Groups created through UI

How is this still an issue can this be addressed

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G E on 12 Oct 2023 11:51:54

RE: Ability to specify custom sort (or order) on the Groups created through UI

Sorting legends is such a hassle in Power BI. Every graph needs some custom table and a massive unintuitive rigmarole just to get it looking like Excel. And I used to think Excel graphs were awful.

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Edward Neve on 23 May 2023 07:10:15

RE: Ability to specify custom sort (or order) on the Groups created through UI

I am new to PowerBI and was amazed and really disappointed to find out that using your own sort order in an easy way (without using extra sorting table or giving numbers to the variables) is not possible. Tableau and QlikSense handle this perfectly, come on Microsoft!

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Richard Stebles on 22 Dec 2022 10:46:43

RE: Ability to specify custom sort (or order) on the Groups created through UI

The little things make a professional product

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Thahid Ullah on 28 Nov 2022 16:49:58

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Please add this Microsoft. So far I am very disappointed with Power BI. There seems to be a lot of very obvious things missing.

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Kjartan Guðmundsson on 08 Apr 2022 08:08:01

RE: Ability to specify custom sort (or order) on the Groups created through UI

This is a no brainer. To have to make your own sorting by putting number in front of the text to sort it in the order that you want is tedious and the outcome of the text is not good.

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Michael Tucker on 17 Mar 2022 09:45:40

RE: Ability to specify custom sort (or order) on the Groups created through UI

Please can this be included in the roadmap, sometimes the small things make a big difference (Just like a select all on a slicer search would do as well)