I thought it was time to deliver on what the blog is promising, i.e. to from time to time provide solutions on Workout Wednesday Challenges and this time we will be looking at an - by now - older challenge dating back to week 21 of 2021.
Comparing table calculations in a tooltip
A while ago a user wanted to be able to show in a tooltip the deviations of the running sums of his actuals vs the running sums of several different budgets, depending on which budget the user would hover over
Comparing independent table calculation results from different sheets
Just as I had finished my blog on how to transfer results of a table calculation from one sheet to another, a new but related question popped up on the forums. This time, the user wanted to compare two independent rankings. I.e. he did not want to compare on a product level but instead he wanted to compare Rank#1 from Ranking A to Rank#1 from Ranking B etc where both rankings could be based on completely independent filters.
Transferring results of a table calculation as a fixed value into another sheet at the example of a Top N ranking
A returning question on the forums is when users want to take the results of filtered table calculation(s) as a fixed value or value set to another sheet which actually is not possible. In this blog post, we will see three option to do the undoable.
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