% of Total that does not change with selections

[MalcolmCICWF]

I have wondered this a few times... what is the easiest way to display the percentage of a total statically so that when I make a selection, it still reflects the percentage  of the total, and not the percentage of the volume I have selected?

Pre Selection:

Post Selection:

[florentina_doga]

use this

sum(amount)

/

sum(total amount)

in percent

[sunny_talwar]

What is the expression you are using? Assuming it is Count(Account) with relative option checked, you can change it to this:

Count(Account)/Count({1} TOTAL Account) -> With relative unchecked now

or if you want to only let the denominator not change on certain dimensions, you can do like this:

Count(Account)/Count({<Year>} TOTAL Account) -> With relative unchecked now

UPDATE: Forgot to add TOTAL which is not added

[MalcolmCICWF]

I'm using that, not working

[MalcolmCICWF]

This is what I am using and no matter what, when I select criteria, it changes to % of what is selected.

sum(ID_COUNT)/Sum(Total ID_COUNT)

[sunny_talwar · Accepted solution]

Try this:

Sum(ID_COUNT)/Sum(TOTAL {1} ID_COUNT)

[MalcolmCICWF]

You are like my Qlik guardian angel lately Sunny, which I appreciate. Are you able to explain the use of the {1} within this expression?

[sunny_talwar]

Sure thing.

So the reason your % age was changing was because as soon as your made a selection your denominator was also getting filtered based on the selection. Since you don't want the denominator to change, you just need to add {1} to tell it to avoid any selections.

Now, if you only want certain selections to be avoided (while still getting filtered on other selections) you need to specify the names of those fields which should not be filtered

{<Field1, Field2, Field4>}

on the other hand if you have a long list of fields on which it should not filter a few fields on which it should filter, you can do like this:

{1<Field3 = $::Field3>}

[MalcolmCICWF]

thanks, very informative

[sunny_talwar]

No problem at all