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Report with counts of individual dropdown items

  • December 2, 2024
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I’m building an activity report based on activities submitted by our CSMs that include a dropdown list, where multiple items can be selected. I’d like to have the report show a count of submissions that count the number of individual dropdown items, not the combined amount of dropdown items. For example, I’d like it to show this:

Count of dropdown 1: ###
Count of dropdown 2: ###
Count of dropdown 3: ###

Instead, it’s showing this, which is too cluttered:

Count of dropdown 1: ###
Count of dropdown 1;dropdown 2: ###
Count of dropdown 1;dropdown 2;dropdown 3: ###
Count of dropdown 1;dropdown 3: ###
Count of dropdown 2: ###
Count of dropdown 2;dropdown 3: ###
Count of dropdown 3: ###

Is it possible to do this in the Report Builder? Thanks!

Padolfi
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  • December 3, 2024

Hi ​@stevej

The only way I found to handle this is a Data Design that either uses transforms to filter individual values and then does a union of each branch obtained, or a Pivot table that already does the grouping and counting in one step. 

The pivot table won’t give you the possibility of drilldown while the Transform+Union does. 


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  • Expert ⭐️
  • December 4, 2024

A little bit slicker solution is to store each option as a new row in a different table. Then bring in the that data and cartesian merge with your data and then do a filter where if multi select contains the row value in the new object.


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