Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label remove related report filter elements

Problems With Conditional Metric and Drill Down

If you are coming across the problem with Conditional metric and Drill Down, you will want to kick somebody's behind after reading the solution(s)! We have a hierarchy defined as Region - Country - State - City - Zipcode - Branch. For each Branch there is a count of Vistors. The report starts with simply Region and Count of Visitors. You should be able to drill down all the way to Branch from Region. Count of Visitors is a conditional metric based on certain filters. So, the requirements sounds pretty simple, right? Yes, and it is simple. But for some reason when I built out the report in less then 5 minutes the drill down would not work. Clicking Americas to drill down and expecting to see Canada, USA and Mexico, I was seeing all European and Asian countries as well. I thought there was something major  was wrong with relationships or data or even the ETL. This is a pretty simple report so obviously the issue has to be a major one for this report to not work, right? Right? Wr...