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How to sort by month, not alphabetical

Lauriek
7 - Meteor

Can someone help with the below grid to be sorted by month order, not alphabetical.

 

April59362695.77
August88065329.94
December86659085.87
February27117735.67
January59912193.9
July79757626.22
June70884268.54
March45235901.16
May89641660.98
November95846400.13
October83070284.84
September75695732.11

 

I saw some past posts about it, but still cannot get it to work.

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JaeLim
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Hi @Lauriek,

Please refer my solution below, I first convert the month names into date data type, and sort them in numeric format. 

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Hope this helps!

 

Qiu
21 - Polaris
21 - Polaris

@Lauriek 
If only for Months, we may create a lookup take in this way, the calculation load will be less if the data is huge.

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atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Hi @Lauriek 

 

Here is my take

 

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Hope this helps : )

 

Lauriek
7 - Meteor

That worked!  Thank you for the help.

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