topic Re: Base Month & Year in QlikView

Base Month & Year

Fri, 14 Feb 2014 00:51:08 GMT

I have 500 clients that use one of our products. When you setup our products there is a field label:

1. Start Base Month & Year

These can be different depending on the client but typically they are July, Aug, Sept of some year. What I want to do is to normalize my data for a application I am building. The clients enter 12 months of data. In order accomplish this I need to set the Start Base Month & Year to an Index of 1. Can this be done. Here is a sample of what the output can look like:

Account Number	Account Name	Start Base Month	Start Base Year	First Month Index
1	A	7	2001	1
2	B	8	2005	1
3	C	7	2008	1
4	D	9	2010	1

Can this be done?

David

Re: Base Month & Year

Fri, 14 Feb 2014 02:13:31 GMT

Hey David,

So if you want to create a flag for those months, then yes its absolutely possible, but just make sure you define it as per requirements like for 2001 its Aug, 2002 Sep, etc.

There should be some logic as to how this base month for each year is defined. Without this logic say for next year to assign a month you would have to go and manually code it.

Hope it helps.

Thanks

Re: Base Month & Year

Fri, 14 Feb 2014 03:17:34 GMT

I dont understand. Is there a way to show me what you are talking about.

Re: Base Month & Year

johnca — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 03:42:40 GMT

Hi David,

Questions on the end goal:

What will you compare the First Month Index to?

Is it to see how long a product has been in use? (basically the same as above)

Can there be more than one entry per customer?

To me there's not enough info to model your data, but yes, you can do what you describe.

--john

Re: Base Month & Year

Fri, 14 Feb 2014 04:06:06 GMT

Hi John,

There cant be more than one Fiscal Year Begin Date per client. The reason I need this is to Fiscal Year Comparisons. I need to normalize all the months so I have a Fiscal Month 1,2,3,4,etc... and the month is relative to the Fiscal Year Start Date...so for client a, b, c can have different start dates (july, sept, jan)...Fiscal Month 1 should refer to july, sept, or Jan. depending on their FY setup. Does this help and if so can you show me how to accomplish this.

David

Re: Base Month & Year

Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:03:07 GMT

Hi David, do you the which client have which Fiscal Year in other table ? If yes, this would be absolutely possible

Please post both sample source data that would be good for understanding

Re: Base Month & Year

Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:34:55 GMT

I am not sure what you are asking but here is what I have:

Load AccountNumber,

AccountName,

FiscalYearStartDate

BillStartDate

from

account.qvd;

From there I want to show:

AccountNumber 1

AccountName - XYZ

BillStartDate - 1/1/2013

FiscalYearStartDate - 7/1/2012

Month(FiscalYearStartDate) as Month - 7

Month Index 1 since 7/1/2012 is the FiscalYearStartDate

AccountNumber 2

AccountName - ABC

BillStartDate - 2/1/2013

FiscalYearStartDate - 8/1/2012

Month(FiscalYearStartDate) as Month - 8

Month Index 1 since 8/1/2012 is the FiscalYearStartDate

Does this make since?

David