December 2019
Beginner
370 pages
8h 9m
English
Hierarchies help to organize data in the Data pane. They also make it easier for users when drilling down in visualizations. In the following example, we are creating a geographical hierarchy. First, right-click the Country field and select Hierarchy:

Once Country is under the Geography Hierarchy folder, three additional fields were dragged under the Geography Hierarchy folder—State, City, and Postal Code. The following screenshot shows that when Country is placed in the Rows shelf, a +/expand icon appears. When a user clicks on this, the next item in the hierarchy will populate (State) and so on. Hierarchies should make sense ...
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