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Sort by breakdown in Waterfall

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on 01 Feb 2018 04:21:18

Waterfall in July 2017 update is cool. But it is looking really weird when the breakdown dimension is a period (ie. months that have a natural order). It would be great if the chart could be sorted by Breakdown dimension. On the example of months, we will be able to see the variation between 2 years by month in the right natural order (Jan, Feb, Mar, ...) instead of by value variation that is dificult to interprete

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https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/Sorting-on-breakdown-attribue-of-waterfall-chart-not-working/idc-p/349280#M21430

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Jenn on 05 Jul 2020 23:53:25

RE: Sort by breakdown in Waterfall

Please implement this functionality. The period looks super weird as a breakdown. They should be sorted from the oldest periods to the latest ones. Thanks.

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Kirti Gupta on 05 Jul 2020 23:49:12

RE: Sort by breakdown in Waterfall

Please implement this feature, its highly required.

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Robin Sarac on 05 Jul 2020 23:48:20

RE: Sort by breakdown in Waterfall

Our organization needs to be able to see this in a certain order. The lack of a sort facility is kind of surprising. Would love to see this implemented!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:26:05

RE: Sort by breakdown in Waterfall

Please, this would really be needed!
Just allow us to sort on the category we are breaking the value with, keeping its order - even if it is without grouping
Thanks!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:23:51

RE: Sort by breakdown in Waterfall

'Sorting by breakdown was not a bug, it really was a feature that we need!
You actually have implemented more "advanced" functionality (automatic grouping & sort by value), but the more basic one, which is simply "dont group and respect the breakdown order" is not implemented... and it is a very useful feature! (I would even say, in my case, necessary for the chart to have value)

In my case, when I am showing month-over-month changes due to different business drivers, the X-axis legend changes order!! That makes is very hard to read - you have to check every legend every time - very unintuitive (my boss called it a "bug"...)

Really, please implement a simple version. The way I see it would be an on-off formatting option that does the following:

- ON: sort breakdown by measure value, and automatic grouping works
- OFF: sort breakdown by legend, automatic grouping off

Thanks a lot for your help, this would make the waterfall really useful for us.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:21:43

RE: Sort by breakdown in Waterfall

Desperately needed. The whole "it needs to look like a bridge" thing is absurd.

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Alba on 05 Jul 2020 23:17:12

RE: Sort by breakdown in Waterfall

This is a very necessary enhancement!

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Christian on 05 Jul 2020 23:12:13

RE: Sort by breakdown in Waterfall

I don't understand why this tiny change in code isn't implemented to give the users the flexibility they need.