topic Qlik Sense: Load Year & Month Variables in App Development

Qlik Sense: Load Year & Month Variables

jcampbell — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:47:01 GMT

I'm trying to use a script (which I've successfully implemented with QlikView) in Qlik Sense. Basically I need to store a few variables for Year and Month (current, previous, etc). Here's the script I'm using:

LET vYearCurrent = Year(Today());

LET vYearPrevious = Year(Today())-1;

LET vYearPreviousX2 = Year(Today())-2;

LET vMonthCurrent = Month(Today());

LET vMonthPrevious = Month(Today())-1;

LET vMonthPreviousX2 = Month(Today())-2;

For some reason Sense stores "Sep" for the value of vMonthCurrent but "8" for the value of vMonthPrevious. As a result I'm only able to use the vMonthCurrent variable in my visualization and not the vMonthPrevious variable.

Any ideas how to get Sense to not store the vMonthPrevious variable value as numeric?

Re: Qlik Sense: Load Year & Month Variables

Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:55:52 GMT

Hi,

Try something like

vMonthPrevious =month(monthstart(today())-1)

Hope it helps!!

Re: Qlik Sense: Load Year & Month Variables

phaneendra_kunc — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:56:43 GMT

Once you subtract number it will convert the strings into numbers. for Previousmonth use below..

Month(AddMonths(Today(),-1))

Re: Qlik Sense: Load Year & Month Variables

jcampbell — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:59:36 GMT

That did it. Thanks! Here's the final script:

LET vYearCurrent = Year(Today());

LET vYearPrevious = Year(YearStart(Today())-1);

LET vYearPreviousX2 = Year(YearStart(Today())-2);

LET vMonthCurrent = Month(Today());

LET vMonthPrevious = Month(MonthStart(Today())-1);

LET vMonthPreviousX2 = Month(MonthStart(Today())-2);

Re: Qlik Sense: Load Year & Month Variables

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:11:06 GMT

Hi. Im quite newbie in QlikSense after working in QlikView. I try to use variables but somehow it doesnt work the way i was working in QlikView.

I want to write expression showing sum of sales for previous year but expresion like

Sum(if(YEAR=vYearPrevious,Sales)) doesnt work.

How am I supposed to use it? I pasted variables from this discussion to Script and reloaded app.

Thanks in advance for help

Re: Qlik Sense: Load Year & Month Variables

jcampbell — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 23:27:41 GMT

Your expression should be Sum({<[Year]={'$(vYearPrevious)'}>}[Sales]).