topic Re: Create filter on dimension - Distinct only in App Development

Create filter on dimension - Distinct only

Anonymous — Wed, 18 May 2016 19:05:11 GMT

Hello all.

I have a data set that has a date field called "weekEnding" for every record in the data set. I want to use that date as a filter but I am having some issues with how to do this. In my Load script I added a dimension called "yearMonth" that I created from the "weekEnding" field. When I add the filter to the sheet I get a "yearMonth" for every record.

Is there a way I can make that filter distinct?

This is my load script.

LOAD

region,

plantNumber,

plant,

driverID,

driverName,

valueType,

Value,

Category,

"total",

weekEnding,

sMonth,

sYear,

Date(weekEnding,'YYYY-MM') as yearMonth,

CountOfdriverID,

driverstatus,

geoLocation,

usState

FROM [lib://DriverScorecard/qryDriverScorecardByWeek.xlsx]

(ooxml, embedded labels, table is qryDriverScorecardByWeek);

Re: Create filter on dimension - Distinct only

sunny_talwar — Wed, 18 May 2016 20:36:31 GMT

Try this:

LOAD

region,

plantNumber,

plant,

driverID,

driverName,

valueType,

Value,

Category,

"total",

weekEnding,

sMonth,

sYear,

Date(MonthStart(weekEnding),'YYYY-MM') as yearMonth,

CountOfdriverID,

driverstatus,

geoLocation,

usState

FROM [lib://DriverScorecard/qryDriverScorecardByWeek.xlsx]

(ooxml, embedded labels, table is qryDriverScorecardByWeek);

Re: Create filter on dimension - Distinct only

Anonymous — Wed, 18 May 2016 20:51:14 GMT

Thanks Sunny T. That worked.

I don't understand exactly why adding the Date function cleared up the issue. Can you elaborate?

Thanks,

Nate

Re: Create filter on dimension - Distinct only

sunny_talwar — Wed, 18 May 2016 21:10:05 GMT

I did not add just the date function, I added the MonthStart. The issue is that date is just a formatting function and doesn't really remove the day just because it formatted it YYYY-MM. It would still repeat for each day (and time if weekEnding is a timestamp). To get rid of all extra things, I just made all the dates 1st of the month using MonthStart and then assign them your required date format using Date() function.