Creating New Fields Through Logic

[rsdhavle]

I have two fields RegionA and RegionB. I want to introduce a new field which will have logic like.

RegionA = 'ASIA' OR RegionB ='ASIA' ..I want this logic in new field lets say named RegionC. Will the above logic work for my scenario??

[Josh_Good]

Hi Rohan,

Yes this sort of logic will work.  In your load script you can write the logic using an if statement.  I created a small example below.  The exact expression will depend on how you want to deal with other members in the RegionA or RegionB fields.  If you have a more complex logic (e.g. different outcomes for RegionC based on several combinations of RegionA and RegionB you may want to concatenate the two fields and then use a mapping table to resolve the logic.

-Josh

QLik

Load

....

If(RegionA='ASIA' or RegionB='ASIA', 'ASIA', RegionA) as RegionC,

....

;

[avinashelite]

Hi Rohan,

Did you issue got resolved? if not please post your app.

[kuba_michalik]

Depends on the data model and what you want to achieve. If the new field is supposed to be in a table which already has RegionA and RegionB, then sure. If RegionA and RegionB are in different tables in the data model, then no, unless you match them in some way.

[rsdhavle]

Both fields are in the same table. We want the scenario like Region A = 'ASIA' (Region B Can be asia or anything else)

OR RegionB = 'ASIA'(Region A can be asia or anything else) So its simple OR condition but usually Qlikview shows it like AND and OR logic does not work

RegionA   RegionB   Revenue

ASIA        UK                100

ASIA        ASIA             200     

UK           UK                300

US          ASIA              100

So in above case when i will select my newly created field Region C which has logic like Region A = Asia or Region B = Asia The revenue for it should come as 400. I am trying to achieve it

[anbu1984]

Sum({<Region A = {'Asia'}> + <Region B = {'Asia'}>}Revenue)

[kuba_michalik]

If it's just about Asia, then no problem. As already suggested, create new field in script like this:

If(RegionA='ASIA' or RegionB='ASIA', 'ASIA', <whatever it's to be when neither is ASIA>) as RegionC

But you can't store "logic" in a field, just the result of applying it to other fields. So, if you wanted to switch to selecting "RegionA='UK' OR RegionB='UK'" at a click, you can't do this that way. For that you have to either incorporate set analysis into your expression, or create the new field as linked to all combinations of RegionA and RegionB which satisfy the logic for each and every region. I'd stick with set analysis if I were you.

Here's an example of general implementation of OR-mode selection: Or-mode selections in QlikView The Qlik Fix! . If you need it for just one field, you can trim it down to something much simpler.

[Anonymous]

Hi

Try like this

If(RegionA='ASIA' or RegionB='ASIA', 'ASIA', RegionA) as RegionC,

[rsdhavle]

does not work

[jagan]

Hi,

Try like this

LOAD

*,

If(RegionA='ASIA' OR RegionB='ASIA', 1, 0) AS Flag

FROM DataSource;

Now use this expression

=Sum({<Flag={1}>} Revenue)

Or if you want to handle this front end try this expression

Sum({<Region A = {'ASIA'}> + <Region B = {'ASIA'}>}Revenue)

Hope this helps you.

Regards,

Jagan.