Flags in qliview

[Anonymous]

What are flags in qlikview ? please give Some examples for better understanding ?

Happy Qliking

Thanks

[ThornOfCrowns]

Typing flags into the search box at the top right of the screen gives several dozen hits.

[jjordaan]

Hi,

A flag is often a boolean (true or false) in your data model.

You can use it in your expression.

Common example are in the calendar to calculate for example current year to date (CYTD) like

YearToDate(date [ , yearoffset [ , firstmonth [ , todaydate] ] ])

YearToDate(date, 0, 9, Today()) AS CYTDFlag

In your app you can use in your expression like

Sum({<CYTDFlag= {1}>} SalesAmount)

This is much faster to create the calculation in your app.

Hope this helps