Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Salesforce Wave Explained - Independent Chart Comparison

 


A client recently requested the ability to look at two charts on the same dashboard in Salesforce Analytics Cloud, each with its own set of date ranges.  For example, being able to look at average sales amount for the current year in one chart and the prior year in another chart.

While this may seem like a daunting request at first, it's actually quite simple to build this dashboard.  In fact, it can be done without any SAQL and only a few lines of JSON.  Here is how to build it.