Question

I’ve created a pivot table that lists the number of cases submitted by a series of locations.

Consider:

Location A        100
Location B         10
Location C       1000
TOTAL            1110

Our data for the table includes location and status. Now the client wants to see a percentage of CLOSED cases as a third column.

Consider:

Location A        100   50%   (based on 50 cases marked as "closed")
Location B         10   10%   (based on  1 case marked as "closed")
Location C       1000   20%   (based on 200 cases marked as "closed")
TOTAL            1110   23%   (based on 251 total cases marked as "closed")

I can add a third column to the table, but the second I filter on CLOSED cases, column two lists the totals of closed cases only, and my percentage is 100% for all of column three. Is there a way to leave column 2 selecting EVERYTHING, but set column one to look ONLY as closed cases?

In a perfect world, I could display location, count of ALL cases by location and count of CLOSED cases by location, expressed as a percentage of column #2

Is this doable?

Answer 1

I think the best way to do this is to add a column to your source data that assigns a 0 for open stores and a 1 for closed. Then using my dictum:

The percentage of True items in a list is the average of zeros and
ones, where True is represented by 1 and False by 0.

from this post, you can do this: