Loading an excel spreadsheet as a crosstable

[#1]

I have an excel spreadsheet (attached) with account balances for each month for the past 4 years (1month per column, 1 account code per line).

Column A - Account Name (Accountancy Fees to Work in Progress

Column B - Account Ref

Column C - 01/01/16

Column D - 01/02/16

...........

Column AX - 01/12/13

Row 1 Headers

Row 2 onwards is each account.

I want to load it as:

Account Name (1st Account Name), Account Ref, Value(01/01/16)

Account Name (1st Account Name), Account Ref, Value(01/02/16)

........

Account Name (1st Account Name), Account Ref, Value(01/12/13)

Account Name (Next), Account Ref, Value(01/01/16)

Account Name (Next), Account Ref, Value(01/02/16)

........

Account Name (Next), Account Ref, Value(01/12/13)

.......

Account Name (Last Account Name), Account Ref, Value(01/01/16)

Account Name (Last Account Name), Account Ref, Value(01/02/16)

........

Account Name (Last Account Name), Account Ref, Value(01/12/13)

Also, I'm comparing the data with other data for the corresponding months using the field 'TransDate' as the key that links to other tables so the dates need to load into the 'TransDate' field.

I assume I would need the CrossTable function to load the data the way I want it? If so how would I do it please?

Thanks very much for your assistance.

[Gysbert_Wassenaar]

Something like this:

Temp:

CrossTable(TempDate, Value, 2)

LOAD

  *

FROM

  [LIB://MyFolder/Croos Table Sage.xlsx] (ooxml, embedded labels, table is Sheet1)

  ;

Result:

LOAD

  *,

  Date(Num#(TempDate)) as Date

RESIDENT

  Temp;

DROP TABLE Temp;

DROP FIELD TempDate; 

[Anonymous]

Have a look?

The Crosstable Load

[#4]

Sorry, I'm really struggling with this, seems to be a bug in the code (no doubt I've entered it wrong).

I've attached the app as I've been playing around with this all day and not getting anywhere.

Thanks for your assistance by the way,

[Gysbert_Wassenaar]

There's a semicolon where there shouldn't be one:

Temp:

CrossTable(Date,Value,2)

LOAD NAME,

    `ACCOUNT_REF`,

    `01/01/2016`,

    `01/02/2016`,

    `01/03/2016`; <-- this one

FROM

[lib://Downloads/Downloads\Croos Table Sage.xlsx]

(ooxml, embedded labels, table is Sheet1);

Then in the next load you reference a field TempDate which won't exist because you gave it the name Date when you created the Temp table above:

Result:

Load

*,

Date(Num#(TempDate)) as Date

RESIDENT

Temp;

DROP TABLE TEMP;

DROP FIELD TempDate;

You can rename Date as TempDate in the first load or use Date in both loads. As long as you use the same name in both fields it doesn't matter what name you use.

[#6]

Thanks Gysbert,

I have made that change, it was then not finding the fields '01/01'2016', '01/02/2016' and '01/03/2016' from the below script:

LOAD NAME,

    `ACCOUNT_REF`,

    `01/01/2016`,

    `01/02/2016`,

    `01/03/2016`

So I changed the fields in Excel from dates to text but now I'm getting error:

The following error occurred:

Field not found - <TempDate>

The error occurred here:

Result: Load *, Date(Num#(TempDate)) as Date RESIDENT Temp

[Gysbert_Wassenaar]

The bold field names in these two lines should be the same:

CrossTable(Date,Value,2)

Date(Num#(TempDate)) as Date

[#8]

Hi Gysbert, sorry to keep troubling you.

I've added the load script to the larger app I'm working on and made a slight tweak to stop it dropping the TransDate field which is upsetting the other data I have.

The problem I'm having now is that the data is getting loaded in but does not correlate to any dates. When i make a bar chart the data sits outside the timescale on the chart. I don;t think it is converting the Dates correctly.

Script is below:

Temp:

CrossTable(TransDate,Value,2)

LOAD NAME,

    `ACCOUNT_REF`,

    `01/01/2016`,

    `01/02/2016`,

    `01/03/2016`,

    `01/04/2016`,

    `01/05/2016`,

    `01/06/2016`,

    `01/07/2016`,

    `01/08/2016`,

    `01/09/2016`,

    `01/10/2016`,

    `01/11/2016`,

    `01/12/2016`,

    "01/01/2015",

    "01/02/2015",

    "01/03/2015",

    "01/04/2015",

    "01/05/2015",

    "01/06/2015",

    "01/07/2015",

    "01/08/2015",

    "01/09/2015",

    "01/10/2015",

    "01/11/2015",

    "01/12/2015",

    "01/01/2014",

    "01/02/2014",

    "01/03/2014",

    "01/04/2014",

    "01/05/2014",

    "01/06/2014",

    "01/07/2014",

    "01/08/2014",

    "01/09/2014",

    "01/10/2014",

    "01/11/2014",

    "01/12/2014",

    "01/01/2013",

    "01/02/2013",

    "01/03/2013",

    "01/04/2013",

    "01/05/2013",

    "01/06/2013",

    "01/07/2013",

    "01/08/2013",

    "01/09/2013",

    "01/10/2013",

    "01/11/2013",

    "01/12/2013"

FROM [lib://QlikDatabaseFolder/Sage\Sage Nominal Balances.xlsx]

(ooxml, embedded labels, table is NomBals);

Result:

Load

*,

Date(Num#(TransDate)) as Date

RESIDENT

Temp;

[Gysbert_Wassenaar]

replace num#(TransDate) with date#(TransDate, 'DD/MM/YYYY')

[#10]

Thanks very much, works great! I owe you a beer!!