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Hi
I am looking to sum a value, based on whether or not another field meets a condition. My tables and fields are below
Delivery Table
DeliveryID
AmountDelivered (numeric)
DateEnded (date delivery ended)
SourceCentreID as [CentreID]
Centres
CentreID
I want to sum each delivery value per centre, for the a rolling year.
I would also like to be able to have this as a KPI and a add filter pane with all the Centre names, so whichever centre you choose, it'll return the rolling yearly amount of tonnes delivered.
I have tried sum(if(DateEnded>=today()-365, AmountDelivered)) which seems to work but just gives wild figures when a selection is made on the filter pane. I don't know whether it's a data modelling / joining error or an expressional error.
Any advice will be gratefully appreciated.
EDIT: Just to add, the SourceCentre field could be blank (delivery product is sourced from elsewhere, not a centre). I obviously need to only sum the delivery amounts for each individual centre.
Hi Sam,
Refrain from using IF statements on the visualization side. Create a flag in the load script and create the logic just using set analysis.
load script: If(DateEnded>=AddYears(today(),-1),1,0) as LastYearFlag
Visuliaztion: Sum({<LastYearFlag={1}>}AmountDelivered)
I hope it works.
Cheers,
Luiz
hi
if I got you,
It seems like a simple filter in set analysis, or if the period is fixed, you can do that in ETL
can you send an image of your result?
Hi Luiz,
Thank you for your response. That's really interesting, I'm new to the loadscript world and still learning - but that makes a lot of sense. I wish I knew this last month!
I will try it out now, thanks.