topic Re: Dynamic string to Field (evaluate at each record) in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Dynamic-string-to-Field-evaluate-at-each-record/m-p/534500#M480261 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>booo, well that's a shame</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Dec 2013 18:32:00 GMT 2013-12-05T18:32:00Z Dynamic string to Field (evaluate at each record) https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Dynamic-string-to-Field-evaluate-at-each-record/m-p/534498#M480259 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is this even possible?&nbsp; I am trying to turn a string into a field; however, depending on the dimension, the string is different.&nbsp; currently I am just getting nulls returned.&nbsp; the 4th column in the below is what I am trying to do; however it always returns null.&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>dim1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | Val_A | Val_B | $(='Val_' &amp; dim1)</P><P>A&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | 4.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | 3.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | 4.5</P><P>B&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | 2.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | 1.7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | 1.7</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Dec 2013 18:22:29 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Dynamic-string-to-Field-evaluate-at-each-record/m-p/534498#M480259 2013-12-05T18:22:29Z Re: Dynamic string to Field (evaluate at each record) https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Dynamic-string-to-Field-evaluate-at-each-record/m-p/534499#M480260 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No, the dollar sign expansion is not evaluated per dimension, only once per chart.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Dec 2013 18:26:08 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Dynamic-string-to-Field-evaluate-at-each-record/m-p/534499#M480260 swuehl 2013-12-05T18:26:08Z Re: Dynamic string to Field (evaluate at each record) https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Dynamic-string-to-Field-evaluate-at-each-record/m-p/534500#M480261 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>booo, well that's a shame</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Dec 2013 18:32:00 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Dynamic-string-to-Field-evaluate-at-each-record/m-p/534500#M480261 2013-12-05T18:32:00Z