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Hi,
I'm strugling to understand how to implement dynamic variables to my stacked area chart. I've tried looking at different solutions, but I can't comprehend how to apply it to my own data.
My data table consist of the following table from Excel:
Sector | Year | Costs | Tech A reductions | Tech B reductions | Tech C reductions | Tech D reductions |
Farms | 2025 | 500 | -15 | -10 | ||
Farms | 2027 | 515 | -35 | -50 | ||
Fishing | 2025 | 1500 | -60 | -100 | ||
Fishing | 2027 | 1525 | -150 | -120 |
In my stacked area chart, I want to be able to have a slicer that toogles "Farms" or "Fishing". But if I select only "Farms" for instance, I only want the legends for Tech A and Tech B to be visible, since all the numbers from the two "Fishing"-related columns aren't present in the visual anyways (except for their legends, that are cluttering my visual).
In my stacked area chart, I have "Year" on the X-axis and "Costs" & "Tech A-D" on the Y-axis.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Apologies if this has been asked before, but I couldn't get other solutions to work for me.
Best regards
Solved! Go to Solution.
You do that by bringing your source data into a usable format. The process is called unpivoting.
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From there your legend issues resolve themselves.
Thanks Ibendin, for making that clear to me.
The solution was indeed to unpivot the cost-column and the technology columns.
You do that by bringing your source data into a usable format. The process is called unpivoting.
From
to
From there your legend issues resolve themselves.
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