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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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Sailesh Dadlani on 16 Aug 2020 04:19:21

RE: Custom order for legend

Please make this happen

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 04:19:17

RE: Custom order for legend

This is crucial in understanding a dashboard. It's crazy that this is not a feature in Power BI.

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Sjoerd on 16 Aug 2020 04:19:14

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How is this still not implemented?!

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Christoffer Gamborg on 16 Aug 2020 04:19:12

RE: Custom order for legend

Please add this!
In the meantime I manage to workaround the issue by making a calculated column and giving the different markers names that would be in numerical order from the bottom to the top of the stacked bar chart.
If(
something = this;
"1 - Name of legend to be placed on the bottom";
"2 - Name of legend to be placed second from the bottom"
)
Not pretty, but it works faster than the 6 measures I had to use before.

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Carl Pearson on 16 Aug 2020 04:19:11

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Sheesh this would be really useful

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Dee on 16 Aug 2020 04:19:04

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please make this happen! i am getting this request for my dashboard by all the engineers who are ready to push management to switch out of PBI!

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Jonathan Watters on 16 Aug 2020 04:19:00

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why doesn't powerbi come with a host of features that were basic and completely necessary in excel 20 years ago? something something modern data vizualization, AI quantum teleportation hurr hurr hurr

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Harish on 16 Aug 2020 04:19:00

RE: Custom order for legend

Seriously this is still not out yet!! How do you expect end users to understand when I export the dashboard as pdf and send it over??

How will they understand what is impacting the most, when its not sort by values?

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 04:18:17

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please make this happen

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Nina Petchprapa on 16 Aug 2020 04:18:16

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Really need this.