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bkoblinger
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7 years ago
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Hide/do not display empty columns in a matrix visual

I have a re-occuring design problem. I have data that is organized in a tall or key-value format, with two key columns. However, some of the values are numbers, whereas others are text. I currently have the data organised like this:

 

I would like to display the data in a matrix visual, but I end up with a number of empty columns. Note the Comment-Value column contains only nulls.

Is there some way to hide these columns or do this differently?

Is there a more suitable data structure?

(Yes, I could pivot Key2 onto the columns; however, when I define a calculated measure I have to define one for 2018 and one for 2019, etc., and this I would rather avoid, as in reality Key2 takes on far more values).

Thanks!

 

 

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    bkoblinger
    7 years ago

    Hi Frank,

    Thank you very much for your reply.

    I did find one work around that will satisfy my needs. It means the comments are shown on the rows, but it looks OK for my need.

    I have accomplished this by duplicating the text field(Comment) for Key1, and putting the Comment on the row, along with Key1, as shown in the example below.

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      bkoblinger
      Frequent Visitor
      7 years ago

      Hi Frank,

      Thank you very much for your reply.

      I did find one work around that will satisfy my needs. It means the comments are shown on the rows, but it looks OK for my need.

      I have accomplished this by duplicating the text field(Comment) for Key1, and putting the Comment on the row, along with Key1, as shown in the example below.