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Parameters: Solution

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- [Narrator] Here's a solution for the parameter challenge. First, we're gonna make our line chart. We're gonna put order date on our column and we change it to be weekly. We want sales on row and we're gonna color it by region. Now, we're gonna create our parameter. We go to create parameter, we'll call it Sales, we change it to an integer, and we're gonna have a range of values. We'll set the minimum as 1 and the maximum as twenty five thousand. Hit okay, add our parameter control and add our reference line. It's gonna be based off our new parameter and we'll change the label to show the value. Now, we can change our value and see it appear. Next, we want our selection of our dimension. For that, we're gonna create a second parameter. We'll call that selected dimension. This is gonna be a string. We need a list, so I'm gonna use region, I'll use segment, and then I'll use subcategory. We now need to create a calculated field from this parameter so we can actually use it in our vis…

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