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rubenacampos
Contributor III
Contributor III

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I am trying to create a table by unique account that shows the User Name with their Role and if their are multiple Users with the same role to list the user names in one filed separated by a comma or semicolon.  Unfortunately when I download the data from the source it lists all the users in one column and in the next column it list the role for the account creating multiple rows per account.  How do I create a table with columns for a unique Account, Role 1, Role 2, Role 3, Role 4 and have the users names for each role listed under the respective role?

Thank you!

6 Replies
OmarBenSalem

Please a sample, a screenshot of what u have with what u expect.

Nicole-Smith

If you want to do it in the load script, you could use script like this: 

Temp:
LOAD * INLINE [
	account, role, user
	1, AM, john
	1, Sales, jane
	1, Sales, harry
	2, AM, joe
	2, AM, sally
	2, Sales, andrew
];

Final:
LOAD account,
	 CONCAT(DISTINCT IF(role = 'AM', user), ', ') AS AM,
	 CONCAT(DISTINCT IF(role = 'Sales', user), ', ') AS Sales
RESIDENT Temp
GROUP BY account;

DROP TABLE Temp;

The above will turn a table that originally looks like this: 

account role user 
1AMjohn
1Salesharry
1Salesjane
2AMjoe
2AMsally
2Salesandrew

 

Into a table that looks like this:

account AM Sales 
1johnharry, jane
2joe, sallyandrew

 

If you would prefer to do it on the chart rather than in the script, you could do so with the following:

Dimension:
account

Expressions: 
CONCAT({<role={'AM'}>}DISTINCT user, ', ')
CONCAT({<role={'Sales'}>}DISTINCT user, ', ')
etc.

rubenacampos
Contributor III
Contributor III
Author

Please see the current table output.

rubenacampos
Contributor III
Contributor III
Author

Please see the current table output.  Thank you!

rubenacampos
Contributor III
Contributor III
Author

What am I doing wrong?  I get an invalid dimension.

 

=CONCAT({<[User Role]={'Focal Point'}>}DISTINCT [User Name], ', ')

Nicole-Smith

To use it as a dimension, you will need to use aggr().  You cannot use aggregation functions like count in a dimension without the use of aggr().

=AGGR(CONCAT({<[User Role]={'Focal Point'}>}DISTINCT [User Name], ', '), [Contract ID])