Sort Order - Sort by Dimension not Boolean - sorting

I am calculating the percent of total for different error categories. I am creating separate bar charts for each of the different categories and would like to have the error categories in the same position on each bar chart.
The order that I would like to set is: Demographics, Specialty and Board Certifications, Service Name and Location, Remit Location, General
However, Tableau appears to be sorting by the Boolean operator (True/False) first then on the Error Category dimension.
Is there a way to sort by the Error Category without taking into account the Boolean?
I have attached an example of what I am trying to achieve.
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PowerBI groupby with filters

My company has tasked with slicing the information on turnover and to create different graphs.
My source data looks like this: Relevant columns are: Voluntary/Involuntary, Termination Reason, Country, Production, and TermDateKey
I am trying to get counts using different filters on the data. I managed to get the basic monthly total using the formula:
Term Month Count = GROUPBY('Turnover Source','Turnover Source'[TermDateKey],"Turnover Total Count", COUNTX(CURRENTGROUP(),'Turnover Source'[TermDateKey]))
This gave me a new sheet with the counts for each month.
Table that shows TermDateKey on Column 1, and Counts on column 2
I am trying to add onto this table by adding counts but using different filters.
For example, I am trying to add another column that gives me the monthly count but filtered for 'Turnover Source'[Voluntary/Involuntary]=="Voluntary". Then another column for 'Turnover Source'[Voluntary/Involuntary]=="Involuntary" and so on. I have not found anywhere that shows me how to do this and when I add in the FILTER function it says that GROUPBY(...) can only work on CURRENTGROUP().
Can some one point me to a resource that will give me the solution I need? I am at a loss, thank you all.
It looks like you may not be aware that you don't have to calculate all possible groupings with DAX formulas.
The very nature of Power BI is that you use a column like "Termination Reason" on an X axis or in the legend of a visual. Any measure that you have created on values of another column, for e.g. a count of all rows, will then automatically be calculated to be grouped by the values in "Termination Reason", giving you a count of each of the values in the column.
You do NOT need DAX functions to calculate the grouping values for each measure for each column value combination.
Here is some simple sample data that has been grouped into dates and colours, one chart showing a count of each colour and one chart showing a sum of the Value column. No DAX was written for that.
If your scenario is different, please explain.

Power BI. Sort a column with repeated values based on another column

For my requirement, I've got a specific layout for a report. To simplify, the series of Categories should present the Areas in a particular order (financial information).
Every Category will be present on a different Page on Power BI. However, as you can see, some areas belong to multiple Categories. Because of this, I'm getting an error message if I try to order this column by an index, and I can't modify the name of the area.
Is it possible to specify on a cross table that I do not need it to perform any alphabetic order?
I've looked for a possible answer, but so far I have not found any solution to this.
Regards.

Google Sheets Iterative Calculation

I am hung up on this iterative calculation in GS. I need an array formula to give me a basic TRUE or FALSE response based upon the result in the cell immediately above. I've created a sandbox chart here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YzC5mbxv4jDGnBn8HJ62ehBxMx1UGlNJczVVCm3Vjh4
Column A includes a checkbox next to each Category. Column B is a list of Category Names and each sub-entry. We're going to constantly add new sub-entries over time. When a user checks the box next to the Category, I want the Category name and all sub-entries to be labeled TRUE (as shown in column D). I have dragged this formula down in Column D, however, this is not a sustainable solution as our table will eventually contain about 6,500 categories each with 10-30 sub-entries. We need an array formula solution.
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(ROW(A2:A) <= MAX(IF(NOT(ISBLANK(B2:B)), ROW(A2:A))),
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DAX COUNT/COUNTA functions

I've looked at many threads regarding COUNT and COUNTA, but I can't seem to figure out how to use it correctly.
I am new to DAX and am learning my way around. I have attempted to look this up and have gotten a little ways to where I need to be but not exactly. I think I am confused about how to apply a filter.
Here's the situation:
Four separate queries used to generate the data in the report; but only need to use two for the DAX function (Products and Display).
I have three columns I need to filter by, as follows:
Customer (Display or Products query; can do either)
Brand (Products query)
Location (Display query)
I want to count the columns based on if the data is unique.
Here's an example:
Customer: Big Box Buy;
Item: Lego Big Blocks;
Brand: Lego;
Location: Toys;
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Customer: Big Box Buy;
Item: Lego Star Wars;
Brand: Lego;
Location: Toys;
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Customer: Big Box Buy;
Item: Surface Pro;
Brand: Microsoft;
Location: Electronics;
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Customer: Little Shop on the Corner;
Item: Red Bicycle;
Brand: Trek;
Location: Racks;
In this example, no matter the fact that the items are different, we want to look at just the customer, the brand, and the location. We see in the first two records, the customer is "Big Box Buy" and the brand is "Lego" and the location is "Toys". This appears twice, but I want to count it distinct as "1". The next "Big Box Buy" store has the brand "Microsoft" and the location is "Electronics". It appears once and only once, and thus the distinct count is "1" anyway. This means that there are two separate entries for "Big Box Buy", both with a count of 1. And lastly there is "Little Shop on the Corner" which appears just once and is counted just once.
The "skeleton" of the code I have is basically just to see if I can get a count to work at all, which I can. It's the FILTER that I think is the problem (not used in the below example) judging by other threads I've read.
TotalDisplays = CALCULATE(COUNTA(products[Brand]))
Obviously I can't just count the amount of times a brand appears as that would give me duplicates. I need it unique based on if the following conditions are met:
Customer must be the same
Brand must be the same
Location must be the same
If so, we distinctly count it as one.
I know I ranted a bit and may seem to have gone in circles, but I was trying to figure out how to explain it. Please let me know if I need to edit this post or post clarification.
Many thanks in advance as I go through my journey with DAX!
I believe I have the answer. I used a NATURALINNERJOIN in DAX to create a new, merged table since I needed to reference all values in the same query (couldn't figure out how to do it otherwise). I also created an "unique identity" calculated column that combined data from multiple rows, but was hidden behind the scenes (not actually displayed on the report) so I could then take a measure of the unique values that way.
TotalDisplays = COUNTROWS(DISTINCT('GD-DP-Merge'[DisplayCountCalcCol]))
My calculated column is as follows:
DisplayCountCalcCol = 'GD-DP-Merge'[CustID] & 'GD-DP-Merge'[Brand] & 'GD-DP-Merge'[Location] & 'GD-DP-Merge'[Order#]
So the measure TotalDisplays now reports back the distinct count of rows based on the unique value of the customer ID, the brand, and the location of the item. I also threw in an order number just in case.
Thanks!
I am semi new to DAX and was struggling with Count and CountA formula, you post has helped me with answers. I would like to add the solution which i got for my query: Wanted count for Right Time start Achieved hence if anyone is looking for this kind of answer use below, filter will be selecting the table and adding string which you want to
RTSA:=calculate(COUNTA([RTS]),VEO_Daily_Services[RTS]="RTSA")

Can't seem to get runningvalues to work in VS2013 Report Designer

I have a margins report that I've created that groups by Month, Customer, Sales Type then displays the sales details. I have that basic report working well. The SALTYPE group has four options from the stored procedure that pulls the data, they are A, B, C, D. I've been asked to add grand totals at the bottom of the report for each sales type.
From my research it appears I need to use RunningValues in an expression to generate these totals but I've been unable to find any useful examples. I've tested for the Tot. Sales column using the expression =RunningValue(Fields!TOTSALES.value, sum, "SALTYPE") but it throws an error I'm not sure I'm interpreting correctly, "The Value expression for the text box 'Textbox168' has a scope parameter that is not valid for the aggregate function. The scope parameter must be set to a string constant that is equal to either the name of a containing group, the name of a containing data region, or the name of a dataset". If I understand correctly it's referring to "Tablix1_SALTYPEGroup" but I'm unclear what that should be or if I'm completely off base.
Can anyone provide an example to get those grand totals or point out the flaw in my expression? I've been all through MSDN but primarily been referencing this blog.
So I may be incorrect but it appears they way I had my groups structured and the details sorted it wasn't possible to generate the totals I needed. I resolved this by simply adding a summary Tablix below my first one, using the same data but structured and sorted in a way to easily generate my totals. By sorting the details on the SALTYPE I could then just add a total and hide the details. The result is exactly what I was looking for.

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