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Improve sorting, allowing flexibility/custom sort

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on 30 May 2018 04:34:34

Currently, our visuals can only be sorted by alphabetical order. We have some specific customs sorts set up in our data set that do not get pulled into Power BI. It would be helpful to allow more flexibility with the sort feature.

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Gary Thomann on 06 Jul 2020 00:09:30

RE: Improve sorting, allowing flexibility/custom sort

Hierarchical sorting mechanism please ...

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:09:16

RE: Improve sorting, allowing flexibility/custom sort

Please look into this option! Currently, as a workaround, have to have separate tables purely to sort, and end up with around 20 additional tables which slow everything down. Custom sort in PBI Desktop itself would be really useful.

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Angela Sterling on 05 Jul 2020 23:56:07

RE: Improve sorting, allowing flexibility/custom sort

I just spent 20 minutes searching for this solution only to find its not possible.
This would be such a big help looking at data for in a fiscal year that is ordered differently than the calendar year.

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Michele Lavelli on 05 Jul 2020 23:51:16

RE: Improve sorting, allowing flexibility/custom sort

Hi, is there any feedback on this? I need to have some improvement on sorting a chart table, I would like to have a custom sort.

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Marc on 05 Jul 2020 23:29:39

RE: Improve sorting, allowing flexibility/custom sort

so you can't sort....