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paresh's avatar
paresh
Frequent Visitor
10 years ago

Getting TOP n Items in a Table/chart

I have gone through the forum and have found many queries which pertain to the above topic (have searched on TopN and RankX). I have tried all of them and have not been able to come up with the corre...
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Sean's avatar
Sean
Community Champion
10 years ago

paresh To achieve what you want you have to remove the [Date] field your from your table

 

even if you aggregate the data wtih YTD or a Running Total it will still be broken down by month (like in the Matrix below)

 

the Slicers will indicate to your user what is selected - then you can select any date range(s) you want...

 

 

paresh's avatar
paresh
Frequent Visitor
10 years ago

Thanks Sean.

 

However, my final visualization is going to be a Box and whisker chart, showing my Top 10 Items. Now the chart requires the data in the form of a Pivot table. To get the data in that format, I have the item on 1 axis and Month on the other, with the quantities being sold.

 

As soon as I include the month, it starts giving me the Top 10 items for each month and thus more than 10 items.

 

How can I come out of this situation? 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    10 years ago

    Hi paresh,

    Regarding to the issue that how to display data properly in Box and whisker chart, please directly contact the author. In this link, you can send an email to the author by clicking “Contact Author” as shown in the following screenshot.

     

    Thanks,
    Lydia Zhang

    • paresh's avatar
      paresh
      Frequent Visitor
      10 years ago

      Thanks Lydia.

      However, I dont think it is an issue with this specific visualization. If I am able to get the correct data in a Table visualization, it will also show correctly in the Box and Whisker chart.

       

      So I feel, it is primarily to do with formulating the correct expressions to get the correct values. Rest will all fall in place.

      • paresh's avatar
        paresh
        Frequent Visitor
        10 years ago

        I have tried to make some data in Excel and linked that to a PowerPivot (I have never worked in PowerPivot and will finally want my results in PowerBI, but just to simplify things)

        The excel Sheet can be downloaded from this Link

         

        I have also explained in the 2nd sheet what I want.