Date functions in set expression

[#1]

Hi, I want to have a table which constantly shows recent sales, regardless of current selection. Currently I'm a bit lost at why these two below don't yield same results?

Sum(If(date > '2016-08-08', sales))                         works fine

Sum({$< date = {"> '2016-08-08'"}>} sales)               gives zero as the result

And next question would be how to use functions in set expression. Ideally I'd want to have something like

Sum({1< date = {"> Date(Interval(Today() - 7, 'D'))"}>} sales)               but that gives zero as well.

[#2]

Hi MIkko,

I think your date format is not right, Please check your date format with which you are matching as mine is working fine:

Sum({$< date = {"> '2016-08-08'"}>} sales) 

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[sunny_talwar · Accepted solution]

How about this:

Sum({<date = {"$(='>' & Date(WeekStart(Today(), -1), 'YYYY-MM-DD'))"}>} sales)

Also read here about Dates in Set Analysis

[#4]

Sum({<date = {"$(='>' & Date(WeekStart(Today(), -1), 'YYYY-MM-DD'))"}>} sales)

That worked, thanks Sunny!

Rohit: Thanks for checking that out. I have these in Data load editor

SET TimeFormat='h:mm:ss TT';

SET DateFormat='YYYY-MM-DD';

SET TimestampFormat='YYYY-MM-DD h:mm:ss[.fff] TT';

so I would assume it should compare those dates correctly?

An arbitraty date with

Sum({$< date = {"$(='>' & Date('2016-08-08', YYYY-MM-DD))"}>} sales)

works though, so the problem definitely is somewhere within the date formating.

[sunny_talwar]

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Best,

Sunny

[#6]

Hi Sunny,

Actually I have only Qlik View Server License not Publisher license, Can I do this activity with this ?

I was looking at Qlik View sample application and there is a chart layout (Object Container )like there are three buttons(Cycle, Drill, Details by Year), Every Button linked with a different chart(Can be line or bar chart). you just need to click on any of the buttons,linked chart will appear on the basis of linking,

Same type of layout works with Variable Extension in Qlik Sense but Problem here is you can link field with the variable button not any chart, Can you please help me , How to create Qlik View Object Container in Qlik Sense

There is one more requirement, I have a field where URLs are coming with every record , When I view that column in Qlik view , I can click on that URL and it will open in default browser, Expression behind that column is

'<url>www.qlikview.com'

Same I want to achieve in Qlik Sense but <URL> key word is not working. Can you help me to know how to display URL in any column ?

[Rkota]

Many Thanks Sunny T...this post of yours came in handy/helped solve a date related issue.

[sunny_talwar]

Awesome!! I am glad it did