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Sort Records Based on This Year's and Previous Year's Sales

Veröffentlichungsdatum: Apr 23, 2026
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How to sort records based on this year's and previous year's sales.

If you want to sort the records based on this year's sales, or if there are no sales this year, based on the previous year's sales.

Current behavior
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Desired behavior

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Schritte
1. Connect to attached data source 'deta.xlsx' from Tableau Desktop.
2. Drag Date to Columns and Company to Rows.
3. Drag Sales to the view as show below.
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4. Create a new calculated field as follows:
     Name : Previous Year Sales
     Calculation : {FIXED [Company]:SUM( 
                           IF DATEPART('year', [Date]) = YEAR(TODAY()) - 1
                           THEN [Sales] END)}
5. Create a new calculated field as follows:
     Name : This Year Sales
     Calculation : {FIXED [Company]:SUM( 
                           IF DATEPART('year', [Date]) = YEAR(TODAY())
                           THEN [Sales] END)}
6. Create a new calculated field as follows:
     Name : Sort by Sales
     Calculation : IF [This Year Sales] >= 1
                           THEN [This Year Sales] * 1000000000000
                           ELSE  [Previous Year Sales]
                           END
7. Right-click on Company on Rows and select Sort.
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8. Set the sort as follows:
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Nummer des Knowledge-Artikels

001458544

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deta.xlsx

8 KB

Book1.twbx

18 KB

 
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