I have problem relating to pivot query and matrix reporting. I don't know how to display it on matrix reporting service so it will dynamic column. Can any body help me to show how to configure the matrix table? or could you give the link where can I find the answer of my problem? I'm newbie in reporting service.
Think of a matrix control as a 'design time pivot table'
Once it has been designed and it has rendered the data, the output is fixed - you cannot drag and drop like you would with a pivot table.
The matrix control can have dynamic row/column groupings which will grow with your data.
It's pretty easy to use once you get your head around the concept of 'inscope'
To create dynamic columns, you just need to create a column grouping (towards the top right section of the matrix control once you have dragged it on to the form) Just tell it which field to use as a grouping.
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I have a form data wherein tableau I am using the below value to find out the choices for a multiple value question. The question is Could you please indicate one or two areas where we fell short.
the value can be explosives, vehicles, cement etc
I have individually accounted for each of the choices in the below calculated field:
int(contains(lower([Could you please indicate one / two of the following areas where we fell short of meeting your expectations?]),'factory'))
Similarly I have found out for other values:
The calculated fields are hasvehicle, hasfactory etc
But the problem is how can I visualize the same in the form of bars?
All I am able to do is this:
How can I visualise the same in the form of bars side by side?
When you have one measure on Rows, drag the second measure and drop it in the axis.
It will result with Measure Names on the Columns shelf and Measure Values on the rows shelf.
I've built a new worksheet that has two dimensions and several facts. When I try to sort on any column, it only seems to sort within the dimensions. Is it possible to sort based on the column, ignoring dimensions? I find if I concatenate the two dimensions into one... that does work, but is not ideal.
Ah yes, sorting in Tableau. Took me a long time to understand it. It doesn't do sorting the way you would expect in other tools like Excel. This is because it's grouping dimensions from left to right. Think of each dimension getting nested inside the one to the left of it. Another way to think of it is that Tableau doesn't sort measures, it sorts dimensions based on some value a measure. That's why concatenating dimensions will yield the expected result, because you have just one calculated dimension and that dimension gets sorted by the value of a measure. You can right click on the concatenated dimension in your Rows shelf and choose Show Header. That's probably your best bet.
See this article from The Information Lab on the sorting in Tableau: https://www.theinformationlab.co.uk/2014/11/03/understanding-sorting-tableau/
There are some Tableau Community posts about it too.
https://community.tableau.com/thread/118958
https://community.tableau.com/thread/221956
https://community.tableau.com/thread/164714
I am trying to create a graph with two lines, with two filters from the same dimension.
I have a dimension which has 20+ values. I'd like one line to show data based on just one of the selected values and the other line to show a line excluding that same value.
I've tried the following:
-Creating a duplicate/copy dimension and filtering the original one with the first, and the copy with the 2nd. When I do this, the graphic disappears.
-Creating a calculated field that tries to split the measures up. This isn't letting me track the count.
I want this on the same axis; the best I've been able to do is create two sheets, one with the first filter and one with the 2nd, and stack them in a dashboard.
My end user wants the lines in the same visual, otherwise I'd be happy with the dashboard approach. Right now, though, I'd also like to know how to do this.
It is a little hard to tell exactly what you want to achieve, but the problem with filtering is common.
The principle that is important is that Tableau will filter the whole dataset by row. So duplicating the dimension you want to filter won't help as the filter on the original dimension will also filter the corresponding rows in the second dimension. Any solution has to be clever enough to work around this issue.
One solution is to build two new dimensions that use a calculation rather than a filter to create the new result. Let's say you have a dimension, [size] that has a range of numbers from 1 to 10 and you want to compare the total number of rows including and excluding the number 5. You could create a new field using a formula like if [size] <> 5 then 1 else 0 end
Summing the new field will give a count of the number of rows that don't contain a 5 and this can be compared directly to a rowcount of the original [size] field which will give the number including the value 5.
This basic principle can be extended to much more complex logic. The essential point is to realise that filters act on every row in your data and can't, by themselves, show comparisons with alternative filter choices on a single visualisation.
Depending on the nature of your problem there may be other solutions worth looking at including sets and groups but you would need to provide more specific details for users here to tell you whether they would be useful.
We can make a a set out of the values of the dimension and then place it in the required shelf. So, you will have your dimension which will plot accordingly and set which will have data as per the requirement because with filter you can't have that independence of showing data everytime you want.
This seems pretty simple, but I can't seem to find a way to do this.
I need to multiply all rows in a chart - or all columns, whichever is easiest. AKA. I am looking for something like the product() function in Excel.
Any ideas on how to accomplish this?
EDIT: Row values may change, so this needs to be a dynamic calculation. Like a function to aggregate all values into a product of the values.
A calculated field can be created with: sum([Sales])*PREVIOUS_VALUE(1)
This gives the running product. Then, that field can be inserted into the table.
You can certainly create a calculated field that will multiply various columns together. Something along the lines of [Column1] * [Column2] * [Column3] will generate a new calculated measure that is the product of all three columns.
That being said, if you're doing that much data manipulation within Tableau, you should probably be giving some hard thought as to why that's necessary. While calculations are certainly possible and new Tableau 9 features such as level of detail functions make doing calcs on measures not present in your viz easier, Tableau is primarily a data presentation layer. Data manipulation apart from simple calcs and pivot/unpivot operations should be done upstream. Doing advanced manipulations within Tableau, while sometimes/often possible, can be very hard to debug and reproduce.
I have created a stored procedure where its columns can change names and the number of columns fluctuate as well. Is there a way to auto generate the report in SSRS depending on the result set. My main concern is to output from 3 columns to lets say 10 columns. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
You can toggle the visibility of columns using the Column Visibility in conjunction with some parameter you define for control flow. It is a bit more difficult to do column wise shifting then row shifting, as with groups. Another thought would be to look into column grouping. In SSRS you can simulate the PIVOT command using column groups.
You can use the matrix, which will show the number of columns as they are generated.
Include (Drag from DATASETS) your data in DATA and the field (dynamic column) in columns.
Hope this helps you.