Exactly, I am going to wait to see after it runs this first automation if it puts in the data I believe it should. If it works I manually back fill it this one time and moving forward should do the trick. I just need to populate a new record each year moving forward for the upcoming year which is certainly easy enough to do.
Original Message:
Sent: 12-29-2020 11:26
From: Mark Shnier (YQC)
Subject: Cumulative Sales Line Chart
That is an interesting approach.
Sounds like that could work on a going forward basis but will not deal with your historical data if for example you're looking to track last year to date for the same month versus this year to date for the same months.
But you could always populate the last year to date values manually to get started.
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Original Message:
Sent: 12-29-2020 11:21
From: Ivan Weiss
Subject: Cumulative Sales Line Chart
Thanks Mark, let me see if I sorted it out first. I think I might actually have it leveraging what you showed me with the sales goals when we did that....
I created a field for the year based on the date of the invoice and made a Cumulative Sales Table. I created that relationship using the year as the reference field so it is auto populating that relationship now. That successfully has given me annual cumulative sales.
I created an import with an automation to grab those values on the last day of the month and copy the record to another table. It also populates the date of the import run (last day of the month). I believe, if my logic is correct, that means every month I am going to have a record on that table with the cumulative sales to date. I should be able to create a line chart based on that.
It will run for the first time on Dec 31st so we'll see how that works out.
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Ivan Weiss
Original Message:
Sent: 12-28-2020 15:42
From: Mark Shnier (YQC)
Subject: Cumulative Sales Line Chart
I have some thoughts as to how this might be possible, but I have have to work with you on a one on one basis to try to get this to work because the solution is fuzzy in my head. The solution would involve a table of dates Key field of the first of the month for all the possible months (loaded up using Excel). Then it would take 24 or 36 relationships depending on how far back you wanted to go. Contact me by email if you want to work on a one on one basis.
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Original Message:
Sent: 12-28-2020 15:24
From: Ivan Weiss
Subject: Cumulative Sales Line Chart
Hi Mark, I looked at the waterfall as that of course looked soooo easy except it does not compare data.... I cannot put the previous year on the same chart against it. I need to run a comparison of two sets of data (2019 and 2020 for example)
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Ivan Weiss
Original Message:
Sent: 12-28-2020 15:21
From: Mark Shnier (YQC)
Subject: Cumulative Sales Line Chart
You should sort the chart on the invoice date field grouping by month. Then the months will be in the correct sequence.
As for a cumulative report, you can use a waterfall chart type for that. It shows the step for each month and the steps cumulatively climb up. So that will give you both the months visually and the cumulatively for a single year.
Perhaps if you land the user on a Home Page with various charts you can get close to what you want all on one page.
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Original Message:
Sent: 12-28-2020 15:09
From: Ivan Weiss
Subject: Cumulative Sales Line Chart
Hi everyone,
I reached out to Quick Base support but unfortunately got the most ridiculous no effort answer ever :(. So disappointed in that honestly as they are normally helpful. I assume checked out for the holidays. But, I am hoping someone here can help me.
I have an app that maintains a billing section of the app under a larger Project Manage Scope. The organization is as follows:
Projects < Opportunities < Orders < Invoices
What I am trying to accomplish is a line chart that over three years can show me a comparison snapshot by month of cumulative billing. I want two charts:
One chart showing the data as Total Invoices. So it compares monthly and cumulative. So the data point for January needs to be January, February is January + February, and March is January + Feb + Mar etc.
The second chart is going to do the exact same thing but filter the data on a "type" field in the Opportunities table. That is already carried all the way down to the invoices table via lookups so the data is present already.
Here is how far I got.....Two issues persist:
- The data is not cumulative. It is a summary of the total sales per month. I need to make it cumulative.
- Less of an issue, but how do I sort the months properly? As you can see it is running January, October, November, December since it is a numeric field grabbing the date of billing in a month format.
Also FYI we only joined Quick Base somewhat recently so the sales that are 0 are correct as that is pre-Quick Base. I just want to build this report for 3 years of history as once we are down the road a bit more with Quick Base that is the range we want to see. Possibly just against last year so two years could work as well but I know how to change that.
Thanks in advance for the help!
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
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Ivan Weiss
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