By incident, today's blog post is somewhat related to my last post and once again comes straight out of the Tableau forums where the solution I am going to share has been very well received. Apparently, this is a topic that concerns many users. The question asked was how we could show each single item … Continue reading How to show filter selection and custom “all selection” on text marks
Category: Table calculations
How to show the selected time frame and a warning if it is broken
A quite common request is to display what the user has selected within a filter. In our today's case what we will do is to show within the header the selected date range plus a warning if the dates have a break in it. That is, if the user selects January, February and April, the … Continue reading How to show the selected time frame and a warning if it is broken
A bit about the order of operations – Part 2
Here is the second and concluding part of the mini series on diving into the order of operations based on workout-wednesday 2022 week 15 challenge by Erica Hughes. In Part 1 we rebuilt the solution that was in the challenge but this time our aim is to avoid using hard-encoding the maximum date or storing … Continue reading A bit about the order of operations – Part 2
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
Quickie on combining index and sub totals
In case you encounter the problem that you want to number your table by using index and still add a subtotal and thereby run into this here is the workaround: Copy your dimension which you intent to number using the index. In the above example, it is customer name. Put the original customer name to … Continue reading Quickie on combining index and sub totals
Another quickie on aliasing
Have you ever encountered that you were creating BANs (Big (Buttocks) Numbers) and wanted to show sub-segments as well as the total side by side all in one sheet? Let's do an example: Connect to superstore sample data and but segment on columns. Sales goes on Text. Add "Totals" from the Analytics pane This is … Continue reading Another quickie on aliasing
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