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Custom order for legend

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Krishna Sankar on 30 Jul 2015 05:43:14

I should be able to order the "legend" and the values for each legend category in a stacked bar chart. This is similar to "series order" feature in Excel

Administrator on 18 Oct 2022 00:54:14

Update 10/17: This is now in our upcoming roadmap and we will share more details in the coming months. Mo

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Ali Goerkem Oezata on 16 Feb 2022 08:45:22

RE: Custom order for legend

February 2022 and still have to struggle with workarounds for this very basic and simple feature. This is MICROSOFT PowerBI, not an open source fan project.

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Robert Hawke on 15 Feb 2022 05:25:43

RE: Custom order for legend

Absolutely needed. And while you are at it, please also allow to define a custom color for each value in a dimension that is then used in bar charts on the legend, throughout the report, without having to adjust each visual. Thanks,Robert

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Steven Hoover on 03 Feb 2022 22:40:31

RE: Custom order for legend

This is extremely important, I have reports I can't move into powerbi cause I can't order the buckets in the legend and the seemingly random chosen isn't readable.

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Bastian Baur on 03 Feb 2022 07:03:51

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push!highly requested feature from our departments

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Dmitri Ivanov on 05 Jan 2022 19:15:03

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Sort by value please!! Small multiples already has that feature, why not legend?

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Thomas Joel Farrar on 22 Dec 2021 11:22:16

RE: Custom order for legend

Agree, desperately needed.

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Nick Lor on 30 Nov 2021 15:28:34

RE: Custom order for legend

Bump. This is desperately needed.

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Kate West on 20 Oct 2021 09:09:23

RE: Custom order for legend

The related suggestion for correcting the default sort order needs more votes, for those who are interested: https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=b1363cc1-0810-462d-8801-0e64973751c7

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Kate West on 20 Oct 2021 09:06:34

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The legend should be in the same order as the stacked bar charts as default. No one wants them in opposite order, it is confusing for the reader and therefore bad practice. Why was it programmed this way in the first place?

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David Heiss on 07 Sep 2021 14:14:08

RE: Custom order for legend

I always use this trick (or almost something like this)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZLmWz60_do
Had always worked correct for me