topic Exists and Notexists function, can it be used in the same calculated dimension on the same field in QlikView

Exists and Notexists function, can it be used in the same calculated dimension on the same field

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:09:16 GMT

I think i may have a syntax errrow for my below formula, which is attempting to evaluate my shipTo Customer number for the current year $(CYear) and the previous year $(PYear) to determine if the customer number is new or existing

=IF(Exists(s$(CYear)[ShipTo Customer]) and Notexists(s$(PYear)[ShipTo Customer]), 'New','Existing')

Exists and Notexists function, can it be used in the same calculated dimension on the same field

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:08:20 GMT

Hi,

There ar no function called Notexists in QV. But you can use the logical operator Not befor Exists...

And you got the function syntax for Exists wrong...

I guess you got the New/Existing check working in the other thread...

but yes you can have it like this

if(exists([Shipto Customers],'123456') and not exists ([Shipto Customers],'129897'),'True','False')

Hans