Kasper de Jonge shows us different ways of sorting a visual by some unrelated measure:
So lets start with the simple one, I want to sort a chart on a measure not part of the visual. Let’s take this visual:
Now instead of sorting by OrderQuantity I want to sort by the ListPrice. The trick here is to make the measure part of the query, and one way you can do that is by adding it to the tooltip
Read on for examples for charts as well as matrices.