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CommunityMember87446

Community, 

 

Working through MB 1- on lesson 13 now to set up UX pages.

 

The results of my first attempt at a Volume Chart, followed by Margin Chart result in something not desired.

The line graphs follow along the periods then comes the full year values.

 

The full year values make the visualization unusable from an end user Point of View because the full year value distorts the values so much that the periodic values look like a flat line.

 

I went and changed it by selecting View (lesson 13 6 4 in the already saved Chart UX view under the model itself and in the 13 6 5 custom design lesson).  

 

However this method of manually selecting NOT to show the full year column seems unsustainable to me since as the years roll forward, someone will need to remember and go into the select view to deselect the full year view,

 

Also, I think I remember somewhere in the lessons a "Tip" was given not to use View select/deselect for the Time dimension.  However, going over my notes I cannot find this.

 

Can anyone tell me, is there a better approach to "supress" / not show the full year values on a line chart?  

 

Attaching below a screenshot of how I got the Chart I want - but thinking this is not the best way.

 

Any advice is much appreciated.

 

 

 

 

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BrunoRodriguez

Hello @CommunityMember87446 ,

 

Rather than manually selecting the time periods to show, you could apply a filter. For instance, you could create a boolean in a system module where the time period is month and make it true, which would provide you every single month. Alternatively, you could make all the months within the current year true by playing with the time formulas, which would limit it to the months within the current year.

 

Lastly, a more user-friendly way to do it would be creating these filters in a module that is dimensioned by user. That way, each user would have different filters and would be seeing different information within the dashboard. If you want to even make it more convoluted, you can give the user a grid of booleans to control what they are seeing at each moment in time. One of the benefits of having this kind of grid (refer to the image below) by user is that the dashboard gets updated in real time.

 

 

Hope that helped!