Lately, I had shared a quick tip of using a simply calculated field with just a country name in it to createa country field that you can use for example to beautify your map visuals. Another use case is when your dataset does not allow you to edit it and only carries values that are … Continue reading Quickie: how to handle missing geo data on webedit
Tag: hierarchy
Hierarchy filters without data prep
The last one for 2023 is something I had on my mind for quite a while but never really got the time to do it: Creating a hierarchy filter in Tableau. Until recently, there was not much on this issue; at least not that I'd be aware of. The only one I remember to have … Continue reading Hierarchy filters without data prep
Automatically select the last day of a period in a natural date-hierarchy drill down
Somewhat akin to what I wrote about lately, today we will be focussing on a question that was raised in the forums today. The asking person wanted to use the natural date hierarchy drill down (i.e. using the little plus / minus icons on date fields) to drill from year to quarter, month etc. This: … Continue reading Automatically select the last day of a period in a natural date-hierarchy drill down
How to evalute the drill down level in a hierarchy
For today we want to see if there is a way to evaluate the level at which our view is set. What do I mean by that? Assume this is our hierarchy: and the task is to know if we are drilled down to Category, Sub-Category or Manufacturer. For example, in this screenshot, we are … Continue reading How to evalute the drill down level in a hierarchy
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