Sort Month Name in Dropdown

[yichingjc]

I have a dropdown that filters from a CDS datasource on Date. I have converted from showing 11/2019 to be Nov 2019.  How can I sort the dropdown to based on Month instead of alphabetically.  See attachment. 

My filter formula: Sort(Distinct(Filter('Time Entries',msdyn_bookableresource.'Primary Email'=CurrentUser.Email),Text(msdyn_date,"[$-en-US]mmm") & " " & Text(msdyn_date,"[$-en-US]yyyy")),Result)

[mdevaney]

@yichingjc 

Your functions are currently nested like this:

• Sort
• Distinct
• Filter

Have you tried nesting them in this order instead?  My thought is the date should be sorted before it is converted to text by the 2nd argument of DISTINCT 

• Distinct
• Sort
• Filter

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[yichingjc]

@mdevaney  I need to sort the dropdown by Month name = Nov 2019, Dec 2019, Jan 2020, Feb 2020, Mar 2020 etc.  Using sort and sortbyColumn you can only do ascending or descending. 

[mdevaney · Accepted solution]

@yichingjc 

Have you tried my suggestion or are you just assuming it won't work?  I tested the idea on a small Collection of test data and it appears to work just fine.

Distinct(
    Sort(
        Filter('Time Entries',msdyn_bookableresource.'Primary Email'=CurrentUser.Email),
        msdyn_date
    ),
    Text(msdyn_date,"[$-en-US]mmm") & " " & Text(msdyn_date,"[$-en-US]yyyy"))
)

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[yichingjc]

@mdevaney I did try it. but I think my sorting was incorrect that's why it didn't work.  But yours did. Thank you! 

[mdevaney]

@yichingjc 

Good to see its working now!

[yichingjc]

@mdevaney I have another question on relating to Dropdown default.  I've used your code I'm able to sort by month (thanks) see screenshots.  Is it possible to set the Default to be the current month?

[mdevaney]

@yichingjc 

You could likely change the Default property of the ComboBox to this code.

Text(Today(),"mmm yyyy")

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