Hello,
I'm a complete beginner at GLS and am trying to make a pie chart for my dashboard that gives a monthly breakdown of my company's Total Overhead expenses. There are 16 categories of expenses we track and I want each of those expense categories to be their own slice in the pie chart which add up to be our total overhead expenses that month. I also want to have a control so I can change the month that is being looked at.
Here is a rough sketch of what I want:
Here is a sketch of how the table is laid out in google sheets:
Month: Rent: Payroll: Supplies: ....(all the other categories): Total Overheads:
January. 1200. 6000. 500. ..... 83000 (this is just a sum function)
February. 1200. 7000. 750. ... Sum of all expenses for February
Continued in this format for every month of the year.
I've tried reformatting the table so that the months are the column headers and the expense categories are rows but it still hasn't been working for me. The main problem is getting GLS to understand that Total Overheads is a total of all the expenses, not it's own metric. I tried putting Total overheads as a dimension in the pie chart but the pie chart only lets me put one expense category in the pie chart as a metric at a time.
Thanks in advance!
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You just need 3 columns in your Sheet: Month, Category, Expense. Category is your dimension in the pie chart, and Expense is your metric. Leave the Total Overhead out as you can calculate it if you need it. Then add a drop-down filter that uses Month (give it a default value so you don't end up with all the months). When you select a Month, the pie chart will automatically be made up of all the expenses for that month. If you want to show total Expenses, you could add a scorecard (sum of Expenses) that would show the total number of all the monthly expenses in the pie chart.
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