For today I have an interesting one. Let's assume we are faced with a request where the circumstances allow you to show a maximum of twelve bars in your chart. Reason isn't relevant, let's just stick with that as a prerequisite. At the same time, you are tasked to provide the most conclusive yet granular … Continue reading Changing date granularity based on filter (!) selection
Category: Parameters
Summing grand totals from different sheets
For today I have a 'how-to' regarding summing up the gross totals from two different calculations on two sheets with different filters (possibly) applied. Assume your first sheet looks like this. I have randomly filtered to ship date years 2021 to 2023. and the second one like this, filtered based on order date (=2021). Also, … Continue reading Summing grand totals from different sheets
A bit about the order of operations – Part 1
Wow, it's been more than a month since I last published something. So it is more than time to get going again. This time, we will do two things: first, revisit workout-wednesday challenge 2022 - Week 15, rebuild it and discuss the challenges related to the order of operations. Then, in Part 2 of this … Continue reading A bit about the order of operations – Part 1
Maintaining relative values in a tooltip
Assume you are creating a chart with some bars on it showing absolute sales and the corresponding percentage of the overall value. So, in sample-superstore terms you have four bars, one for each region. When you hover, you want to show the segments that make up that bar. Like this: As can be seen, the … Continue reading Maintaining relative values in a tooltip
Show ALL Details for underlying data points (that are not even in the view yet)
In today's question from the forums the user asks (I want to) select any point on a graph in dashboard [..] and can sheet 11 [then] show all data from the manufacturers that make up that point? The graph on the dashboard was a profitability line chart by months with Category and Sub-Categories on rows. … Continue reading Show ALL Details for underlying data points (that are not even in the view yet)
Keeping a constant number of returned rows
In today's question we will be answering how we can keep the returned results limited to a defined/definable number of rows. That means for example if we say we want only 200 rows to be returned but we have four different segments then each segment should only hold 50 results. If we increase to 300 … Continue reading Keeping a constant number of returned rows
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