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Dimension limits to specific values + show others

Hello

In a stacked bar chart (and in a pie chart) where there's one dimension with many possible categories (e.g. dimnesion = "Products", categories: "House","Beauty","Bathroom"...), is there a way to limit the presentation to specific categories you define (e.g. House and Bathroom) and show "Others" as well (as you would in a normal dimension limits option).

What I did was to just define the categories I wanted in the expression of the chart, but this way I can't show the total for the others...

Thanks for your help!

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Hi,

a calculated dimension may help, try this:

if( Products =  'House' or Products = 'Beauty' or Products = 'Bathroom', 'Others')

HtH

Roland

Sorry: better is this:

if( Products =  'House' or Products = 'Beauty' or Products = 'Bathroom', Prducts, 'Others')

Anonymous
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Roland,

Your answer is correct, but there is a shorter way using match() function.  And, posibly aggr() is needed too:

aggr(if(match(Products,'House','Beauty','Bathroom', Products, 'Others'), Products)

Regards,

Michael

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Hi Michael,

you are right, forgot about this shorter way.

But I don't see the aggr()-fanction to be used. There are no aggregations to be done.

Regards

Roland

Anonymous
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Agree, in this case it should work without aggr, so I said "possibly".  So, this should be enough:

(if(match(Products,'House','Beauty','Bathroom', Products, 'Others')

(Just a habit, in my cases aggr is almost always needed.)

Regards,

Michael

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Michael, Roland - thanks a lot for your replies.

Michael - are you sure this is the right syntax? (what you wrote in your last message)

I get error in calculated dimension

when i try to close the last parens I get the curly red line underneath it, and when I don't - the first parens is highlighted in red. Very confusing.

Thanks again

Anonymous
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I always mess the '()'...  This should work:
if(match(Products,'House','Beauty','Bathroom'), Products, 'Others')

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Let me answer, Michael won't be angry.

His expression is missing a ') ' after 'Bathroom' -->

if(match(Products,'House','Beauty','Bathroom'  )  , Products, 'Others')

So long

R

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Oh, lost 😉

Anonymous
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I'm never angry