Solved: Re: Further advance filtering on Charts

OsmandFernando · ‎11-29-2019

Based on your and others wonderful support I made the following,

Collection to find sales by location
Collection to summarize the sales by location
Chart to show the summary sales by location

I want the location chart to filter based on the Year selection in the dropdown. In the location summary the SalesYear column has under the group. I tried following way but did not work

If(Dropdown2_1.Selected.Value="All",SalesSumbyLocation,Filter(SalesSumbyLocation, Grouped.SalesYear = Text(Dropdown2_1.Selected.Value)))

It says under the = sign invalid argument type

Kindly help

Osmand

iAm_ManCat · ‎12-03-2019

Ok, right, now I see, this is because you have multiple rows in each Grouped.SalesYear, so it's a list of entries rather than one item, so we can't compare a box of Apples with an Apple (if that makes sense?)

Could you try these two different formulae? I'm not actually 100% sure these will work, as I think the issue is that it's not able to compare multiple sub-items to a singular parent item.

If(
Dropdown2_1.Selected.Value="All",
SalesSumbyLocation,
Filter(SalesSumbyLocation, Dropdown2_1.Selected.Value in Text(Grouped.SalesYear.Value, "YYYY"))
)

If(
Dropdown2_1.Selected.Value="All",
SalesSumbyLocation,
Filter(SalesSumbyLocation, Text(Grouped.SalesYear.Value, "YYYY") = Dropdown2_1.Selected.Value)
)

Another way of solving this would be to create a new collection, which has the parent (SalesBySumLocation) ID as a new column maybe called RowID, and the contents of Grouped.SalesYear, using AddColumns and ClearCollect, and then filtering That to then show only those items where the Year matches, then comparing your original to this filtered list where the ID's and RowID's match.

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PowerAddict · ‎11-29-2019

What happens when you try without the Text function?

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OsmandFernando · ‎11-29-2019

@PowerAddict same error brother, invalid argument type

PowerAddict · ‎11-29-2019

Ok. Two questions:

1. Show me your SalesSumByLocation collection by going to View->Collections

2. Show me the items property of Dropdown2_1

Thanks,
Hardit

OsmandFernando · ‎11-29-2019

@PowerAddict

There you go

1.

2. Item property set as

["All","2019","2020"]

PowerAddict · ‎11-29-2019

Ok so the problem is that your year numbers are in decimal format. You need to first change them to numbers without decimals.

Try something like:

Left(Find(Grouped.SalesYear), ".") instead of Grouped.Sales in your filter expression.

Let me know if this helps.

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OsmandFernando · ‎11-29-2019

Thank you @PowerAddict I tried but did not work

If(Dropdown2_1.Selected.Value="All",SalesSumbyLocation,Filter(SalesSumbyLocation, Left(Find(Grouped.SalesYear),".") = Text(Dropdown2_1.Selected.Value)))

I think left function is not complete. Also I tried as below,

If(Dropdown2_1.Selected.Value="All",SalesSumbyLocation,Filter(SalesSumbyLocation, Left(Find(Grouped.SalesYear),".",4) = Text(Dropdown2_1.Selected.Value)))

Did not work

Osmand

PowerAddict · ‎11-29-2019

My bad, yes the Left function was incorrect. Try this:

If(Dropdown2_1.Selected.Value="All",SalesSumbyLocation,Filter(SalesSumbyLocation, Left(Grouped.SalesYear, Find(Grouped.SalesYear,".")) = Text(Dropdown2_1.Selected.Value)))

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OsmandFernando · ‎11-29-2019

Thank you @PowerAddict

But still the = sign says Invalid argument type

PowerAddict · ‎11-29-2019

Do me a favor please. On either side of the equation, if you keep your cursor, it should tell you the data type. Let me know what those are.

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