Tableau - Return a dimension with the MAX value

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I am pretty new with Tableau and I need your help for a visualization.

I have Col.1 = Country; Col.2 = Product name; Col. 3 = #Sales

I want to make a table that displays for each Country the Product name that has the maximum amount of sales.

E.g.

Country | Product
AT | Shoes

where shoes is the product with the max sales.

I had thought of a calculated field like this: if sum[Sales] = max([Sales]) then [Product Name] else Null END but it gives me an error.

Any idea of how to solve it?

Thanks in advance for any help given!

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Looking at your example you shouldn't need a calculated field - can;t you simply filter your product dimension for the 'top 1' from SUM of sales, below country? – Ben P
That did not work. However, the solution proposed by Jil worked out. Thanks! – Learner.S

1 Answers

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Extending your method , you need a FIXED LOD to find the MAX(Sales) within Col1 and then output the level within Col2 matching with this MAX(Sales). 

IF ([Sales])== ({FIXED [Cat1]:MAX([Sales])}) THEN [Cat2] ELSE NULL END

Then add the Calculated Field to the Filter and filter out the NULL's.

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