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Status Future consideration
Workspace Apptio
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 12, 2024

Limiting Tables to Top X Amount of Rows

Hi Team,

I had originally reached out via Apptio Community, and it was suggested I bring this as an enhancement request: https://community.apptio.com/question/limiting-tables-to-top-x-amount-of-rows#1e0db23b-4549-4c63-a2a0-018e2f23f44f

We have a list of applications and their possible savings in a table within a report. We're trying to just show the top 5 savings, however, there's no way that I know of to limit the amount of rows for the entire table. As far as I've seen, you can just adjust the table settings to control how many results show on each page. We are just trying to show the top 5 savings, and not the rest of the dataset. I was thinking of modifying the table filter, however, that's a fixed number, and the possible savings is variable and changes between business units (when you apply the global filters).

I was wondering if we could add the possibility to limit to an x amount of rows in a table. Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

Thanks,

Josh

  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Dec 9, 2024

    @Josh Schmellenkamp   Graphs have the ability to limit the number of rows to display.  I understand the business case for showing the "top 5" or "top 10".    The goal would be to focus on the most important items and not distract the end user with the "tail". 

    How would you want to be able to identify the "top 5"?  Would it be based on the highest descending values for a numeric column (e.g., Total Cost YTD)?  Or what about a prioritize list (1 - 10)?  Other scenarios that you would want to consider?