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tjhoolahan
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Waterfall chart: overcome limitation of 200 values for breakdown

Hi,

 

I'm aware that this has kind of already been asked but I'm not sure a solution was found. What I'm looking to do is show the changes to our business revenue, month on month, in a Waterfall chart, whereby the breakdown would be the individual client, returning the top 5 positive and negative variations for this category, along with an "Other" column.

 

The issue is that there are 000's of clients but the breakdown is limited to only the first 200 client names alphabetically in the list. I tried to get around this by sorting the client name column by a rank of the biggest changes month on month but this didn't work either, as the clients with the biggest revenue in the second month ended up being displayed for some reason, rather than those who had actually had the biggest positive or negative changes.

 

I then thought about creating a table using top N to return specifically those clients that had the biggest variations but the resulting waterfall chart then wouldn't display the total revenue number for the month, only the total of those clients, which again is not what I'm looking.

 

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get around this limitation and achieve what I'm aiming for? I can't share the data for privacy reasons unfortunately.

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Icey
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Hi @tjhoolahan ,

I suggest you to create a new idea here to make Microsoft know.

 

Best Regards,

Icey

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