QlikSense-Issue with LeftKeep ,Exists and Trim

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have 2 qvds,Payment.qvd containing RebatePaymentPayeeId and Customer.qvd containing CustomerId.

I loaded these two qvds into the application.

Using Left Keep,I filtered the data.It is working fine and returning 28 records.

When I tried using Exists function,data is not filtering and I am getting all the rows (15185).

I assume that left keep and Exists work in the same way except for 1 reason that Left keep does data filtering after loading all the columns in the memory and Exists does data filtering while loading only and brings in only the filtered rows into memory.

Then I used trim function for CustomerId and loaded qvds using Exists,now it is working fine and returning 28 rows only.

So my questions are:

1.When LeftKeep and Exists functionality is same, why is it returning different no. of rows?

2.Trim only removes spaces, then why exists is working when used trim?

I have attached 2 qvds and the application file in which I explained the 3 scenarios.

Can anyone help me in this.

Thanks in Advance

[Michael_Tarallo]

Hi Mansa - Thanks for your support - I am looking into this with our team.

Regards,

Mike

[rubenmarin]

Hi manasa,

If I simple-quoted the field name in the exists() function it works, filtering 28 customers:

Payment_Exists:

LOAD

      RebatePaymentPayeeId AS E_RebatePaymentPayeeId

FROM [lib://Desktop/Payment.qvd]

(qvd);

Customer_Exists:

NoConcatenate LOAD

    CustomerId as E_RebatePaymentPayeeId

   FROM [lib://Desktop/Customer.qvd]

(qvd)

where exists('E_RebatePaymentPayeeId',CustomerId)

;

Also seems to work if I use Text() function:

Payment_Exists:

LOAD

     Text(RebatePaymentPayeeId) AS E_RebatePaymentPayeeId

FROM [lib://Desktop/Payment.qvd]

(qvd);

Customer_Exists:

NoConcatenate LOAD

    CustomerId as E_RebatePaymentPayeeId

   FROM [lib://Desktop/Customer.qvd]

(qvd)

where exists(E_RebatePaymentPayeeId,Text(CustomerId))

;