For this month's posting we will have a look at how to enable your users to "filter" columns from a text table without actually filtering it. Why would that be needed? Well one idea could be that you have one of these massive tables (you know, the ones you do not want to built but... Continue Reading →
Fair cohort retention analysis
My today's posting is not only technical but a reminder to always think about what you provide when being tasked with something. Do not only technically solve something, make sure that it is logically viable. Imagine your superior comes to you and tasks you with the following. "We need to do a cohort retention analysis... Continue Reading →
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 →
Changing date granularity based on filter (!) selection
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 →
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 →
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 →
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