topic Re: Button to Select Date Range in QlikView

Button to Select Date Range

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:11:27 GMT

I have a date/timestamp field (add_date) with values such as:

10/13/2010 1:07:42 PM

11/19/2010 7:24:11 AM

11/29/2010 2:40:06 PM

1/3/2011 4:01:28 AM

2/14/2011 9:54:12 PM

2/16/2011 7:57:35 PM

and so on.

I'm trying to implement buttons that select all dates in the field that lay within these ranges: past week, past 13 weeks. I'm pretty sure that I need the "Select from Field" action but no clue as to what the search criteria needs to be.

Re: Button to Select Date Range

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:05:40 GMT

Hi,

Please see file attached for example.

Regards

Re: Button to Select Date Range

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:17:26 GMT

Is there no other way besides a master calendar approach?

Re: Button to Select Date Range

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 07:58:30 GMT

Hi,

There is no need for a master calander, i only have it in the test file as i did not have enough data in the inline table.

Regards

Rahul Lakhina

Re: Button to Select Date Range

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 07:58:50 GMT

Hi,

There is no need for a master calander, i only have it in the test file as i did not have enough data in the inline table.

Regards

Rahul Lakhina

Re: Button to Select Date Range

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:07:21 GMT

Even with that explanation, I'm not sure how that button is supposed to affect my date/timestamp field "add_date" I indicated above. To reiterate, I need the buttons to select that range in the "add_date" field. I'm trying to avoid master calendars and don't want to require users to enter in the present date to calculate.

I tried one of those buttons with those "Set Variable" actions, but they didn't change any selections.

Also, Rahul, to avoid double posts just disregard the error message you get when posting comments on this site. The mental wizards who designed this site thought flash would be a good language to use 😃

Re: Button to Select Date Range

Nicole-Smith — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:55:39 GMT

I have attached a working example.

In case you can't view it, I will explain what I did.

In my load script, I have:

Dates:

LOAD * INLINE [

add_date

10/13/2010 1:07:42 PM

11/19/2010 7:24:11 AM

11/29/2010 2:40:06 PM

1/3/2011 4:01:28 AM

2/14/2011 9:54:12 PM

2/16/2011 7:57:35 PM

9/3/2012 8:46:25 AM

7/25/2012 1:34:52 PM

9/2/2012 3:45:25 PM

]

On the "Past Week" button I have:

Action > Select in Field

Field is

add_date

Search String is

=if(count({1<add_date = {'>=$(=today()-7)'}>}add_date) > 1,

'(' & concat({<add_date = {'>=$(=today()-7)'}>}Replace(add_date, ' ', '?'), '|')& ')',

only({<add_date = {'>=$(=today()-7)'}>}add_date))

On the "Past 13 Weeks" button I have the same thing except Search String is (13 weeks = 91 days)

=if(count({1<add_date = {'>=$(=today()-91)'}>}add_date) > 1,

'(' & concat({<add_date = {'>=$(=today()-91)'}>}Replace(add_date, ' ', '?'), '|')& ')',

only({<add_date = {'>=$(=today()-91)'}>}add_date))