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toddbuss
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Qlik Sense: selecting from a sequence

I have a beginner question that's probably been asked and answered a thousand times already.  If someone has  a link to examples, I would be grateful.  As a non-SQL user, I lack the vocabulary to elucidate my question well.

My simplified example table

Owner,Sequence,Pet

Alice,1,cat

Bill,1,dog

Charles,1,fish

Charles,2,hamster

Charles,3,cat

In the dashboard, a user selects "cat" to see all the cat owners (Alice and Charles).

I want to display all the fish owners and all their pets.

What I'm getting:

OwnerSequence 1Sequence 2Sequence 3
Alicecat----
Charles----cat

* from this, I know I have 2 cat owners and they are Alice and Bill, but "fish" and "hamster" are NOT selected, so they are not displayed.

What I want:

OwnerSequence 1Sequence 2Sequence 3
Alicecat----
Charlesfishhamstercat

I suspect I need to transform my data during load  to make it work as planned.  Create a field called "cat owner(Y/N)" for every record, but there are lots of different pets and this doesn't seem like a good practice.  I didn't post my original code because it's confusing, involving both categories and sequences for each "pet"

thanks.

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jwjackso
Specialist III
Specialist III

Dimension = Owner

Sequence1 = Concat({1<Sequence={'1'},Owner=P(Owner)>}Pet)

Sequence2 = Concat({1<Sequence={'2},Owner=P(Owner)>}Pet)

Sequence3 = Concat({1<Sequence={'3'},Owner=P(Owner)>}Pet)

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jwjackso
Specialist III
Specialist III

Dimension = Owner

Sequence1 = Concat({1<Sequence={'1'},Owner=P(Owner)>}Pet)

Sequence2 = Concat({1<Sequence={'2},Owner=P(Owner)>}Pet)

Sequence3 = Concat({1<Sequence={'3'},Owner=P(Owner)>}Pet)

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toddbuss
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Works perfectly. Thanks so much!  

My only hiccup was using sequences as dimensions rather than measures.  --gotta use measures.

for other noobs like me:

Here's a link to Qlik's "nested set definitions"

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense/April2018/Subsystems/Hub/Content/ChartFunctions/SetAnalysis/set-mo...

and Qlik's "concat" function

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense/April2018/Subsystems/Hub/Content/ChartFunctions/StringAggregationF...