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Adding a Custom Calculation

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Adding a Custom Calculation

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In the section Adding a Custom Calculation, why did you use the sum function?
I didn’t get It.

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365 Team 8 months ago
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Hi Ayush,
We use the sum function to indicate to Tableau that this is a range that needs to be summed. Otherwise, if we simply add the range without any operation in front of it, Tableau wouldn’t know what to do with it.
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