topic What is the difference between drill down group and cyclic group? in QlikView

What is the difference between drill down group and cyclic group?

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:49:24 GMT

Hi All,

What is the difference between drill down group and cyclic group?

Thanks,

Attitude

What is the difference between drill down group and cyclic group?

erichshiino — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:06:07 GMT

HI, Attitude

In a cyclic group, you can change the dimension of a chart following a specifi order when you left-click on the cycle button.

Field A - > Field B -> Field C -> Field A -> Etc

Or you can right click the icon and select any of the available dimensions.

On the other hand, in a drill down group, you follow a specific path when you select only one value of a given dimension.

If you have the dimension A -> B ->C in a drill down group, you can oly move to the dimension B after you have only one value in dimension A and move to dimension C after selecting only one value in dimension B

I'd say that the cyclic groups are move flexible but drill downs call be really helpful sometimes.

Hope this helps,

Erich

What is the difference between drill down group and cyclic group?

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:13:54 GMT

Hi Erich

Thanks for sharing very your knowledge. It was really helpful!

Expecting other user to share their knowledge on this.

Thanks,

Attitude

Re: What is the difference between drill down group and cyclic group?

mugdhaojha — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:40:33 GMT

Hi,

A simple difference is drill down groups are used for hierarchical data and Cyclic groups are used for non-hierarchical data.

Re: What is the difference between drill down group and cyclic group?

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:18:02 GMT

QlikView charts support flexible feature called variable groups. Groups are

lists of variables that are defined as cyclic or drill-down. These groups can flow

naturally, e.g., Year, Quarter, Month, Day, or mix any type of variables, e.g., Year,

Customer, Product. When a group is used as the variable specification in a chart, the

chart gains new functionality depending on the type of group used.

Drill-down groups specify variables that display sequentially as you drill-down in the

chart. When only a single value (one bar, one slice, or one point, depending on the

chart type) is available to be displayed in the chart, QlikView automatically drills down

to the next variable level. For example, a bar chart could be displayed showing total

sales for 12 months. When a single month's bar is selected, the chart can automatically

drill down to display sales for the 4 weeks in that month. When a single week is

selected, the sales for the 7 days of the week are displayed. When a single day is

selected, the sales for the individual customers could be displayed.

Alternatively, groups can be defined as cyclic instead of drill-down. When a cyclic

group is specified as the variable in a chart, a cycle button is automatically affixed to the

chart. When the cycle button is pressed, the chart displays the next variable in the

group. Alternatively, the user can right-click on the button to see a list of variables or

expressions in the cycle and move directly to any one. In the example above, the chart

would still start out displaying total sales for 12 months. When the cycle button is

pressed, the chart would change to show the sales for all 52 weeks of the 12 months (or

any months that were selected.) The chart would cycle through each of the variables

with each press of the cycle button.

Hope it will be helpful check..