I am using Tableau and am curious if it is possible to embed a filter into a Row Field Label? In the attached picture below, you can see that the filters match the separate columns in the chart created. Is there a way to basically embed that filter look directly into that header row, or is my best way going to be to just hide the top row and keep the filters sized like that? I am hoping there is a better way to make it look better and more in sync.
Thank you for any help!
I think your hiding the header idea might be the only way.
In addition to your suggestion, you might try adding a blank section of dashboard above your data and floating the filters so they can be very accurately placed. I would also suggest using the arrow keys to move them a pixel at a time.
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Hope you can help.
I have attached my workbook. Basically, I have made swapping sheets. The sheets have different filters, and I need the filters to disappear depending on the sheet showing.
I have no problem with the sheet swapping. I been going through the internet for hours, without finding a good solution. I did look into this: New series of videos on swapping and popping on a dashboard(https://vimeo.com/294170859), but did not find it that helpful since it is not very flexible and too difficult to use if you have many filters, that need to change.
I have some kind of an Idea, of putting my filters in each of their container, and then have the container showing depending the sheet but do not how either.
But in the end, the filters needs to appear in the same spots too.
But I really need your help - Simply can't find a good solution!
Thank you!
Without putting your filters in containers and swapping those I can't think of any alternative way to alter which filters appear on your dashboard.
I don't know the exact specifics of your task, however, having perhaps faced similar issues almost always the best solution is to simplify. If possible instead of swapping sheets consider a new dashboard and just "show sheets as tabs". Altering a parameter is a click, just as clicking a dashboard tab - so no difference to the user. Also changing filters may be confusing to a user - they generally get used to seeing things in a certain place.
Of course none of this may apply to your specific situation.
I have a large tableau dashboard including a number of charts and Summary views and attached to these I have a number of multiple value text filters all non calculated fields.
I am trying to improve the update speed and wonder if there is a method of setting these specific filters so that the views update after the full selection is made and the user has toggled off the filter option. Currently the views update each time a option is selected from the tickbox list.
Does anyone know a method of doing this?
Thanks in advance.
Dan
Simply click the drop down arrow on the filter menu > go to “customize”, then click “show apply button”.
Abhishek Boorugu answer should work for you Dan. If you want data to be filtered before the dashboard is loaded, try Context Filters. More explanation on the same can be found here
I want to create a similar view with Flutter as we can do it by creating a UICollectionViewLayout in iOS .
This is a sample code I am using.
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/b8a2456737c9645e5f3d7210fba6267f7408486f/dev/integration_tests/flutter_gallery/lib/demo/material/grid_list_demo.dart
How to achieve this using GridView in Flutter. If not GridView, is there any other way to do it?
GridView is not designed to do this. You may be able to get a Wrap to do what you want, although from your example it may not quite do it (horizontally it definitely wont as it arrange the items into rows; vertically it might work for you or might not depending on exactly what you're doing).
If you're only ever going to have the two columns, you could simply have a Row containing two Columns and make sure to put the items in the right columns.
Or the more complicated but probably best answer would be to write the logic for arranging the items this way yourself - see CustomMultiChildLayout.
EDIT: there is also a package that may work for you. It can't do arbitrary sizing, and you need to know the sizes of the items in advance, but you can specify items to take up multiple rows or columns of the grid. See it here.
Note that if you have a lot of items, you'll probably want to do something with a CustomScrollView but that isn't really in the scope of this answer.
https://github.com/letsar/flutter_staggered_grid_view
This would help you. I think the plugin gives different size.
I want to have this layout in Crystal Reports:
How can I do this? If it cant be done in CR or SSRS, is there any other alternatives?
I don't believe this can be done with Crystal Reports. I'm not as familiar with SSRS, but after looking through the field options I don't believe it can be done with it either. In general field locations are set static in reporting solutions.
I think this would be best done with html/css or even XSL. I don't know the scope of the issue, but I'd assume that you should be able to output an html or xml file from your application which could be opened with a web browser. For html you should be able to use the align or even float attributes or text-align in css to accomplish this.
I hope this helps.
If you want to have multiple columns of static text in Crystal Reports, then you'd just have to get creative with multiple text boxes, i.e. create 2 text boxes side-by-side and add text to each one until it looks right.
If you want to have 2 columns of data, here's how:
Keep it simple and start with a blank report.
Add your fields of interest to the details section. Resize them so that they only use the first 4 inches of space.
Go into your Section Expert->Details and turn on the Format with Multiple Columns option.
A new tab will appear called Layout. For this example, let's set the Width to 4 inches and leave the Gaps at 0.
Preview your report. If you have enough data in your dataset, it will automatically flood over to the right side of your screen.
It'll take a few minutes of fidgeting with the measurements to get everything looking the way you want. You can even have more than 2 columns if you set the Detail Width small enough.
Also, there is also an option in the Layout menu called "Format Groups with multiple column". It's hard to describe in text, but play with this if you have any grouping levels.
I have a Crystal XI Release 2 report that my client wants to see on two pages. He wants the report to print the demographic information such as (name, address, etc...) for a person on the first page and the totals for the person need to print on the second page. The first page will include as many rows as will fit and the second page will have the same amount of rows which correspond one for one to the first page. Then the third page will contain a new page of people starting where the first ended.
He basically is looking for printing similar to how Excel prints (and please don't tell me to Export to Excel and print from there).
I came up with two ideas for doing this, but only got anywhere with one. The first was to run two reports (one for the demographic info and the other for the totals) which would be collated together somehow. I didn't get very far with this, but I didn't spend a ton of time researching this so I still think this could be an option.
The second way was to extend the report design to the width of two landscape pages, add my fields, and then change my page size back to a single landscape size before I get ready to print. This way sorta works, but can cause some weird issues. One is that if you try to edit/add a field on the second page when the report size is set to a single page landscape the fields are moved to the far right of the first page which makes sense because I would think that is supposed to be the editable region of the designer so I'd assume you're not supposed to have fields outside of this region.
All in all, the second way works, but I know there has to be a better way to do this. I wanted to see if anyone has had a similar request or have some other ideas on a better way to do this. Thanks
I can't think of an easy way to do this in Crystal.
You could get all hacky on the datasource and duplicate every 20(or however many fit on one page) rows. Then you would set up 2 details sections, one section for demographics and the other for totals. Then conditionally suppress them depending on remainder(pagenumber, 2).
Or you could use a subreport that accepts paging parameters and only returns 20 rows per page. But I'm not even sure if you can link a subreport parameter to the pagenumber special field.
How does your second way work? The extra fields just get printed on the next page somehow? However, the problem is that the fields stay outside the designer when you go back to one page and if you need to edit they all move back inside the designer? Couldn't you increase the page width before editing? That's not too bad if it somehow prints it out correctly every time.
I guess I will mark this as the answer since I still haven't been able to figure out a better way around it. If anyone finds a better way then post a response and if it works I think can toggle the answer.
What I do to get around this is to set my printer to the "Microsoft Office Document Image Writer" and then change the width to the widest it will allow which is 36". Then I put the demographic information from the beginning of the section to around 11" and put the totals stating just to the right of where the first section ended and go for another page width.
Then I make whatever changes that I need to make and set the printer back to the printer I want to use for the correct size. After you do this you will find that the editable area only extends to the first page, but you can see the second page of fields to the right. If you try to edit a field on the second page the field will move to the far right of the editable region which is at the far right of the first page so make sure you reset your printer before making edits.
I think I also had to play around with the width of the detail section on the layout tab of the section expert to get the report to print correctly. I set it to the combined size of the 2 pages for mine to look correct.
I think that this is probably a super rare issue, but if you are having a similar issue, that is how I get around it.