Date sort order in line chart

[Anonymous]

Hi all, this is driving me crazy :S I've tried everything that came to my mind, I combining 2 years in 1 chart using just month-day as dimension, but I cannot manage to get it sorted correctly, I'm already ordering by date field in load script and sort property in the dimension, but still, the dates not matching. Those at the end happen to be those days that were reported just in one year but not the other, any idea on how to solve this? Thanks in advance!

Dimension: Month([Report Date]) & '-' & Day([Report Date])

Sort: Expression -> [Report date]

I've also tried to create the dimension as text in load script and sort by load order but I'm getting the same result.

[#2]

I was struggling with the same issue for a while. In my case, 'Sort' was still enabled for one or more Measures. Somehow, Sort on Measure overruled Sort on (time) Dimension. Try disabling Sort for all Measures and see if that helps.

[Anonymous]

Hi Dennis, thanks for the help, I'll try that next time. What I ended up doing to fix it was creating a new field with this definition in the script to remove the year:

month([Report Date])&'-'&day([Report Date]) as [Report Date 2]

And then sorted ascending by the original [Report Date] in script as well

The dimension then was only sorted by "Load order"

Regards,

Oscar

[vikraant]

I tried this approach, it worked.

Thanks !

[Anonymous]

Hi Travis, I was facing similar issue and this solved it. I set the dimension to the recommended expression and sorted the dimension alphabetically. Thanks!

[james_butler]

I encountered a similar problem when combining a period and year.

Using Date#() in the script worked.

I couldn't sort a chart correctly with:

Period & '-' & "Year" as [Period Year]

but this worked

Date#(Period & '-' & "Year",'MM-YYYY') as [Period Year]

[Ksrinivasan]

Hi,

its so easy to make it,

Date(MonthStart([Net due dt]), 'MMM-YYYY') set as Dimension, here [Net due dt]=your Date field, then come to Sort and do as shown, you will get.......

K. Srinivasan.