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You know the struggle. You need to compare a sales rep’s individual deal size against the average deal size for their entire region . But the moment you try, Tableau either repeats the same number on every row or forces you to use cumbersome table calculations.
FIXED [Dimension1], [Dimension2] : AGG([Measure])
FIXED [Customer Name] : SUM([Sales]) → This calculates total sales per customer , no matter whether you’re looking at Year, Product, or Region in your worksheet. When Should You Use FIXED? (3 Real-World Use Cases) 1. Percent of Total (by a specific group) Problem: You want to show each product’s sales as a % of Category total , even if the user filters to a specific region or year.
Enter the .
You know the struggle. You need to compare a sales rep’s individual deal size against the average deal size for their entire region . But the moment you try, Tableau either repeats the same number on every row or forces you to use cumbersome table calculations.
FIXED [Dimension1], [Dimension2] : AGG([Measure]) fixed tableau calculation
FIXED [Customer Name] : SUM([Sales]) → This calculates total sales per customer , no matter whether you’re looking at Year, Product, or Region in your worksheet. When Should You Use FIXED? (3 Real-World Use Cases) 1. Percent of Total (by a specific group) Problem: You want to show each product’s sales as a % of Category total , even if the user filters to a specific region or year. You know the struggle
Enter the .