topic Merge fields in QlikView

Merge fields

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 10:13:34 GMT

Hi all,

I have an excel file that I'm loading into QV. There is a number of fields that have the same data and I am wanting to group these fields into one. Each row entry has a unique field.

Example.

Motor Topic

Home Topic

Pet Topic

Travel Topic

Amend

Sale

Renew

Aim.

Topic

Amend

Sale

Renew

Sale

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks a lot

gwassenaar‌

hic‌

stevedark‌

rwunderlich‌

jimhalpert‌

Re: Merge fields

hic — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 10:18:05 GMT

I would probably use a Crosstable Load.

The Crosstable Load

HIC

Re: Merge fields

Chanty4u — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 10:19:33 GMT

try this

LOAD [Motor Topic]& ''& [Home Topic] &''&[Pet Topic] & ''& [Travel Topic] as Topic

FROM

(ooxml, embedded labels, table is Sheet1);

Re: Merge fields

Chanty4u — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 10:20:58 GMT

tested with because in list box you will get unique values thats why sales come once.

Re: Merge fields

stevedark — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 10:21:17 GMT

Hi Gareth,

Simply load from it four times;

LOAD

OtherFields,

'Motor' as [Topic Type],

[Motor Topic] as Topic

FROM ExcelFile.xlsx;

LOAD

OtherFields,

'Home' as [Topic Type],

[HomeTopic] as Topic

FROM ExcelFile.xlsx;

LOAD

OtherFields,

'Pet' as [Topic Type],

[Pet Topic] as Topic

FROM ExcelFile.xlsx;

LOAD

OtherFields,

'Travel' as [Topic Type],

[Travel Topic] as Topic

FROM ExcelFile.xlsx;

Make sure the field list is identical each time and auto-concatenation will take place.

You could get cleverer with it, and load the list of fields into a table and enumerate around them.

A CROSSTABLE load will also do it for you, but if it is just four fields the way above may be cleaner.

The code for CROSSTABLE is:

CROSSTABLE ([Topic Type], Topic, 3)

LOAD
*

FROM ExcelFile.xlsx;

The number 3 relates to how many fields there are in the table left of the first topic field. It relies on all other columns in the spreadsheet being to the left of the topic columns. You can force this by listing the fields in a certain order, rather than using a * (but a * allows for new topics without changing the script).

Hope that helps.

Steve

Re: Merge fields

amit_saini — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 10:29:40 GMT

Like this ???
PFA!

Re: Merge fields

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 08:40:28 GMT

Thanks everyone, Steve Dark's suggested worked!