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After creating reports for each of your regional sales managers from national sales data, you find that for the Midwest Region only data for Indiana is showing. What did you likely do?

a. When you created the report, you selected Indiana under Report level filters.
b. When you created the report, you clicked Require single selection in the filtering.
c. When you created the report, you removed the slicers from the visualizations.
d. When you created the report, you neglected to click Duplicate this page and rename as Midwest Region.

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Final answer:

The likely scenario is that when the report was created, Indiana was selected under Report level filters. To fix this, remove or adjust the filters to include data for all states in the Midwest Region.

Step-by-step explanation:

The likely scenario is that when the report was created, Indiana was selected under Report level filters. By choosing Indiana in the filters, only data for Indiana is included in the report, resulting in the Midwest Region data showing only data for Indiana. This can be fixed by removing or adjusting the report level filters to include data for all states in the Midwest Region.

It's important to ensure that the filters are correctly set when creating reports to avoid this kind of issue. By carefully selecting the appropriate filters, the report will display the desired data for each region and eliminate any restrictions.

In this case, the error was likely made by mistakenly selecting Indiana in the report level filters instead of choosing the Midwest Region or all states within the Midwest Region.

An explanation for this is that when filters are applied at the report level, they affect all the visualizations present in the report. If Indiana was selected as the filter, then only sales data relevant to Indiana will be shown, excluding other states in the Midwest Region. To correct this, you would need to adjust the filters to include all the necessary states in the region or to remove the specific filter for Indiana so that the report can display all the regional data.

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