topic Re: dual function() in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/dual-function/m-p/647805#M1075137 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><A href="http://www.qliktips.com/2009/08/using-dual.html" title="http://www.qliktips.com/2009/08/using-dual.html">Qlik Tips: Using Dual</A></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:28:38 GMT maxgro 2014-08-08T12:28:38Z dual function() https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/dual-function/m-p/647804#M1075136 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello Community,</P><P></P><P>I'm new to qlikview and may I've more knowledge on dual function() along with perfect example to easily understand.</P><P>Please help me in this in detail if anyone knows.</P><P></P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Sattish</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:25:33 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/dual-function/m-p/647804#M1075136 2014-08-08T12:25:33Z Re: dual function() https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/dual-function/m-p/647805#M1075137 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><A href="http://www.qliktips.com/2009/08/using-dual.html" title="http://www.qliktips.com/2009/08/using-dual.html">Qlik Tips: Using Dual</A></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:28:38 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/dual-function/m-p/647805#M1075137 maxgro 2014-08-08T12:28:38Z Re: dual function() https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/dual-function/m-p/647806#M1075138 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Satish,</P><P></P><P>dual allows you to store a value as both text and a number.</P><P></P><P>For example,</P><P></P><P>dual('Yes', 1)</P><P></P><P>dual('No', 0)</P><P></P><P>This would enable you to sort by the numeric part which may be in a different order to the text order, or maybe sum it, whereas if it were a plain text field this might not be possible.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:32:40 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/dual-function/m-p/647806#M1075138 marcus_malinow 2014-08-08T12:32:40Z Re: dual function() https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/dual-function/m-p/647807#M1075139 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><IMG src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/emoticons/happy.png" /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:35:13 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/dual-function/m-p/647807#M1075139 2014-08-08T12:35:13Z