Comparing Quarterly results for 3 different years

[#1]

Hi,

I need suggestion how to create a comparison between 3 quarters in 4 years. So example i want to display a chart to compare the Quarter2 sales for year 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Thank you very much in advance for your kind advice.

[tresesco]

May be something like this:

Take Year as a dimension in a straight table and expression like:

=Sum(Amount)

Now allow user to select a specific quarter.

If it's not that simple you feel, please share your sample app.

[#3]

Are you able to advise what does the below parameter means:

1) Base Expression

2) Timestamp Expression

3) Basedate Expression

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[tresesco]

Possibly you are talking about time chart. Help says:

Base Expression

Type an expression defining the measure you want to study, e.g. sum(Sales).

Timestamp Expression

State an expression (or just a field name) indicating the location of a timestamp (typically a date) associated with each transaction, e.g. OrderDate.

Basedate Expression

Type an expression providing the reference in time towards which all transaction timestamps should be compared, e.g. today().

Hope it helps. One more point, it is always recommended to close the existing thread and create a new one if you have got the answer to earlier, This way your query would get proper attention.  

[#5]

Or use set analysis.

sum({year='2011'} sales) and use quarter as dimension. This way you'll see the 4 lines in one chart. If you get that working then replace the hardcoded year with an expression, i.e. so you'll always display the last 4 years.

As with your other query, I need more info.

1) Base Expression

2) Timestamp Expression

3) Basedate Expression

Typically a timestamp is more detailed than a date, maybe you need an expression to convert times in your script?