topic Re: Variable Date in QlikView

Variable Date

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:21:10 GMT

Hello! I have a load script that works but I use a hard-coded date (highlighted in red below). But I want to use an arbitrary date value, vStartDate, instead of the hard-coded date. How can I use the value of vStartDate?

LET vStartDate = makedate(Year(Today()),01,01);

YTDtotals:

LOAD

item,

ytd_units,

ytd_cost,

ytd_price;

SQL SELECT t3.item,

sum(t1.units) as ytd_units,

sum(t1.total_cost) as ytd_cost,

sum(t1.total_price) as ytd_price

FROM transitem t1, trans t2, product t3

where t1.trn_uid = t2.trn_uid

and t1.product_uid = t3.product_uid

and t2.trn_date > '2011-01-01'

group by t3.item;

Re: Variable Date

MayilVahanan — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:24:07 GMT

Use like this

and t2.trn_date > '$(vStartDate )'

Edit:

LET vStartDate = makedate(Year(Today()),01,01); gives 01/01/2012

so use

LET vStartDate = makedate(Year(Today())-1,01,01); gives 1/1/2011

For format,

Date(makedate(Year(Today())-1,01,01),'YYYY-MM-DD')

Hope that helps

Re: Variable Date

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:38:55 GMT

Thank you!