How to use RANKX to sort on 2 or 3 columns

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Hello,

Has anybody done a RANKX on multiple columns please?

I have been looking at different solutions in the Power BI community etc. but none of them have been satisfactory so far.

Let’s say I have the following columns:
Products, Period and Total Sales

Products: Name of all the products
Period: AY and LY (actual year and last year)
Total Sales: self-explanatory

In the Table Visual you can only sort by 1 measure so far, unfortunately.

What I would like is:

  • Sort by Highest Total Sales (DESC)
  • Sort by Product (ASC)
  • Sort by Period (ASC -> AY comes first, then LY)

E.g.

Product AA - AY - Total Sales
Product AA - LY - Total Sales
Product BB - AY - Total Sales
Product BB - LY - Total Sales

Does anyone have an idea how to achieve this please?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Kind regards,
Yogesh

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Hi Yogesh,

Can you place some images here of what you are seeing. I’m a bit confused as it seems like this isn’t actually a RANKX problem but a sorting problem?

You mentioned issues only sorting by one column, and then also reference the product column…so I’m a bit lost.

Some visuals would help.

I’ve included here some examples of using RANKX in different ways for reference.

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Hello Sam,

Many thanks for your reply; I will definitely check out the links to the videos you sent and see if I can manage with them.

Yes, actually it’s a sorting issue, but since there is currently no possibility to do multiple sorting on columns in a table, I thought about creating a measure which I could use to sort the data in the way they are required to be.

Thanks in advance for your much appreciated time and cooperation.

Kind regards,
Yogesh