Pivot table numbers change when I drill down on rows

[mikegrattan]

I have a pivot table which I would like users to drill down on rows as follows:

Location

     Grower

          Ranch

               Commodity

                    Work Order

The number they will be viewing is a formula, based on other formulas. The resulting number for this formula seems to change as I drill down.  Here is the formula for Total Profit/Loss:

Net Proceeds- ValueHarvested.

Net Proceeds is defined as Sum(GrossProceeds) - Sum(GrossCost)

ValueHarvested is defined as (Sum(Acres) * Avg(CostPerAcre))

The final expression looks like this:

sum(GrossProceeds) - sum(GrossCost)) - (Sum(Acres) * Avg(CostPerAcre)

I've done some digging around in the forums and I can't quite figure out what might be causing the numbers to change as I drill down. Could it be that I need to use Aggr? Perhaps I need to use Dimensionality? Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Here's what the numbers look like before I drill down to level 3:

When I drill down to level 3, it changes to this:

Other numbers change too, not just the Total Profit/Loss number that I mentioned above.

I created a separate "test" pivot table, that includes fewer measures. In the test pivot table, everything works fine:

I think it has something to do with the other measures in the "broken" pivot table; either there are too many (11), or one or more of them is causing my expression to get "confused".

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks!

[mikegrattan]

Understood; I caught that after I posted the last qvf.  I reloaded the data and the Net Proceeds are now there, but the behavior is still the same.  As soon as I drill down to Location -> Grower -> Ranch ->  and expand a ranch, the number changes.

[mikegrattan]

Update qvf attached.

[spividori]

Hi.

Check it out now. It should work. It works for me.

Regards.

[mikegrattan]

What changed?  It does seem to be working now.

[mikegrattan]

Ooops, spoke too soon.  I'm still having an issue when I add more columns to Measures.  Several measures are behaving this way.

[spividori]

Hi.

It does not open the file, it is corrupt.

But you should try to do what we did to calculate: "Tot Prof / Loss" for the other measures.

Regards.

[mikegrattan]

Here's another copy.

I don't believe the solution worked for the Tot Prof / Loss measure.  As soon as I added other measures to the pivot table the behavior for that measure, as well as other measures, begins to happen again.

[mikegrattan]

Attaching again. Last attachment didn't seem to work.

[spividori · Accepted solution]

Hi.

Check the expression FldOnBgt%, you are using a key field: "WorkOrder", you should create another field with this, called "WorkOrderCount" to be able to use it in the expression: Sum (FldOnBgtFlag) / Count (DISTINCT WorkOrderCount)

Regards.

[mikegrattan]

That did the trick! Perhaps Qlik was counting workorders from the foreign key table as well? Strange that the numbers were good for Location/Grower/Ranch but started to go crazy at the next level of drill-down.

Isolating the WorkOrders as a separate field in one table as WorkOrderCount, and then basing the formula off that measure was the key to solving the issue.

Thank you very much!