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Ian Macdonald
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Ian_Macdonald
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Re: Making a population pyramid chart - specify total for %, and reverse axis direction
Hi Adam, The Tornado chart was included in the 2020.11 release. It seems, for some reason, somehow, that the partners server has escaped the upgrade process!…
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Re: Trouble Drilling up
This is working as designed.
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Re: Switching from AD to SAML
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Re: #run_time_error
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Re: Twitter Source questions
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Re: How to Update Pyramid 2018 to the latest version.
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Re: Model Parameter Default Value
Not directly, but you could define a custom member "default" that is whatever the member is you want as your default and add that to the parameter list. Thread closed.
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Re: user Profiles not working with AD-group-users
Please consult Help: https://help.pyramidanalytics.com/Content/Root/AdminClient/access/Profiles.htm?Highlight=profile Thread closed.
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Re: data retrieval
Use Formulate to calculate current and previous week values based on a parameter of week number. Show these in your report. Select "Last" as the default wee number.…
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Re: Pareto Analysis
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Re: Market Basket
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Re: Can I Publish to pdf and have Discoveries wrap onto subsequent pages?
"Flow" grids and charts are now provided that address this. Please check out the latest release.
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Re: Announcement: Pyramid Office Hours
Yep!
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Re: In Explore Further is there any easy way to filter out records with $0 measures?
Hi Robert, You can use the extended Quick Filter options available with later releases of Pyramid (as of 2020.12): Hope that helps. Ian
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Re: Hiding an item from the legend?
Hi Adam, You can hide the legend entirely, but not just part of it. Is the intended destination of this discovery to be on a dashboard in Present? If so,…
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Re: Dynamic Date Parameters
Yes. Create a List of Years by selecting the All checkbox. This will create a List that will contain all the values of Years dynamically at runtime. Thus next year,…
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Re: Switch dimensions in a bar/column chart
Another option would be to attach an action to the chart in the Dashboard Presentation and jump to another Discover view that used the other attribute.…
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Re: Switch dimensions in a bar/column chart
Hi Sam, We included in Pyramid 2020.10 additional options, Swap and Add in the right-click menu when working with analytic content in Discover and Dashboards.…
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Re: Population pyramid part 2 - axis extents
Tornado charts are included in the latest patch release (2020.11) and automatically balance the axis scales. See my reply to your other post on this for examples. Hope that helps. Ian
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Re: Making a population pyramid chart - specify total for %, and reverse axis direction
Hi Adam, Yesterday we pushed the latest Patch release for Pyramid. Good news is that we have included Tornado charts so all our messing about re above has now gone away! Yay!…
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Re: Percent of Parent Calculation
To add to Jason's informative post above, there are a couple things to be aware of when working with SQL hierarchies in this way. First, the hierarchy must be defined as type "Regular".…
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Re: Making a population pyramid chart - specify total for %, and reverse axis direction
Hi Adam, The % of Total created from the slide off is what we call a "Context" calculation, i.e. it is performed in the context of the query, rather than against the model.…
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Re: Line chart - multiple items, all one colour
Correct. Make sure when you drop the RGB colour measure into the colour drop zone that you choose the "Custom Colors" option:
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Re: Cumulative Rate Changes
Hi Dan, Re-examining your grid I now better understand the algorithm you are using to calculate your compound rate change column. Here's the result, which matches your Excel grid:…
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Re: change start of week in Data Flow (Advanced Time Intelligence)
Hi Fadiel, This is fixed in 2020.10. Please upgrade and retest. Hope that helps. Ian
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