Sorting date in bar chart not working

[#1]

Hi everyone.

I spent the last two days trying to solve this problem and looking for solutions in the forum but none of them worked. So here's the issue.

I have dates in the table I'm loading in the following format: YYYYMMDD.

The script I'm using is the following:

date((date#(DASCAX,'YYYYMMDD')),'DD/MM/YYYY') as [Expiration date],

I'm using this to let Qlik interpret my date and convert it in DD/MM/YYYY format.

I then have to create a bar chart which has date in MM-YYYY (or alternatively MMM-YYYY) on the x-axis.

When I create the dimension I specify the following:

=Date([Expiration Date],'MM-YYYY')

The problem comes when I try to order dates: whichever expression I use, dates are displayed as follows:

How can I sort them? What am I getting wrong?

Thanks in advance

g

[OmarBenSalem]

Try this, in your script, create a new field :

,AutoNumber([Expiration Date], '%Date ID') as [%Date ID]

then in your chart, sort by this [%Date ID]

[#3]

I lose any format (MM-YYYY) using autonumber in the script

[OmarBenSalem]

Keep your date field and add another field using autonumber.

In your chart, as a dimension use your date field and sort it by your DateID

[sunny_talwar · Accepted solution]

Have you tried to sort by your date dimension? And it should be sorted numerically

[#6]

I wasn't paying attention at the sorting order. I thought disabling any kind of sorting for my measure (placed first than dimension) would do the work as well.

Thanks  Sunny as always.