
This can make it hard to see that sales values are much greater than profit values. Notice that the scale of the two axes is different-the Sales axis scales from $0 to $700,000, whereas the Profit axis scales from $0 to $100,000.

Tableau creates separate axes along the left margin for Sales and Profit. Tableau aggregates Sales as SUM and displays a simple line chart.ĭrag the Profit measure to Rows and drop it to the right of the Sales measure. Tableau aggregates the date by year, and creates column headers.

Connect to the Sample - Superstore data source.Profit for all years, and then uses forecasting to determine a trend, follow these steps: To create a view that displays the sum of sales and the sum of For details, see Path properties in the Control the Appearance of Marks in the View Note: In views that use the line mark type, you can use the Path property in the Marks card to change the type of line mark (linear, step, or jump), or to encodeĭata by connecting marks using a particular drawing order.

For more information about the line mark type, see Line mark. They provide a simple way to visualize a sequence of values andĪre useful when you want to see trends over time, or to forecast future values. Line charts connect individual data points in a view.
