Summarized By Options and Definitions

Question

Can someone point me to documentation on the “Summarize” options in reports?

When creating a chart in a Workfront report, the user is required to select an option for “Summarized By”. In most cases there are two choices: Minimum and Maximum. What do these mean and how are they different? What other options exist and what are their meanings? I’ve see Count, Sum, and Average on column settings as well. I haven’t been able to find anything in the Workfront documentation.

skyehansen · Accepted Answer

I don’t know if there is any specific documentation on the workfront side, but there is plenty of general documentation out there that you can borrow, such as this one by microsoft.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/service-aggregates

In most cases, the options that show up in Summarized By are applicable to the fields you pick. For example, you’ll get a “sum” option if you select a field that workfront can add up. You’ll get Min/Max in other cases (like dates for example)

Because this knowledge (aggregation and the ways you aggregate) is so general across charting in general (as opposed to something unique to workfront), you can also often get good results just copy/pasting your post above into chatgpt or another AI tool.

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