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blpetosa
Contributor III
Contributor III

Aggregation with FirstSortedValue

Hello Everyone,

Here is an example of my data set (it is much larger):

estimate_number     est_rev_nbr     description     amount

307                                   0               Hotel               500

307                                   1               Hotel               1000

307                                   2               Hotel               1500

307                                   0               Flight               200

307                                   1               Flight               300

307                                   2               Flight               400

307                                   3               Flight               500


The max est_rev_nbr is different depending on the description. I am looking to get Hotel($1500) and Flight($500), and there are many more components not shown here. I would also like this in a Pivot Table visualization as a measure, so I was using "sum" to just give me the value. I was thinking something like:


sum(FirstSortedValue(amount, -est_rev_nbr)


I appreciate any help with this.


Thanks,


Ben

1 Solution

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sunny_talwar

May be this

Sum(Aggr(FirstSortedValue(amount, -est_rev_nbr), description))

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sunny_talwar

May be this

Sum(Aggr(FirstSortedValue(amount, -est_rev_nbr), description))

blpetosa
Contributor III
Contributor III
Author

Sunny,

You are always such a great help! Thanks for the swift, and correct response!

blpetosa
Contributor III
Contributor III
Author

Sunny,

I know it has been some time, and not sure if you get a notification with this reply, but figure it is worth a shot. Your formula above works great for the main use case, which is a KPI queried by an internal job code. It doesn't seem to work in a table visualization though, and there is no query (shows all of the internal jobs in list form). I have tried a bunch of other things, and can't get it to work. Is there a different formula that would work for a table?

P.S. For the data above, there is a job_code (say 9000), that would be at the beginning of each row.

Thanks in advance, and I will try the community if I don't hear back from you.

Ben

sunny_talwar

Would you be able to share more information? like what is your dimensions? May be share a sample if possible

blpetosa
Contributor III
Contributor III
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All of the fields above/below are dimensions. I believe the issue is that the est_rev_nbr can be different for every estimate number. If we redo a budget, the est_rev_nbr will go up by 1. Some jobs have one estimate, and some have 4 or 5. Here is a better data sample (I am not sure how qvf's work, but can attach an excel spreadsheet if needed):


job_number     estimate_number     est_rev_nbr     description          amount

   1000                          307                             0              Hotel               500

   1000                          307                             1              Hotel            1000

   1000                          307                             2              Hotel            1500

   1000                          307                             0              Flight               200

   1000                         307                              1             Flight            300

   2000                          311                             0               Food               750

   2000                          311                             1               Food            1100

   2000                          311                             0               Flight              400

  2000                          311                              1               Flight              300

   3000                         411                              0            Flight             900

   3000                          411                             0               Food              1750

There are 3 different jobs here. My desired output is (not in this format):

1000  Hotel: $1500

2000  Food: $1100

          Flight: $300

          Total(sum): $1400

3000  Flight: $900

          Food: $1750

          Total(sum): $2650

You will notice that the max(est_rev_nbr) is different, depending on the estimate/job_number. I only need the description amount from the max(est_rev_nbr), so you will see that the "Flight" actually drops off from job_number 1000 since Flight doesn't have an est_rev_nbr of 2. I believe the formula you gave me before, takes the highest est_rev_nbr across the whole data set, and only uses those (which is how I did originally ask the question). I am thinking I need one more aggr or comma in your original equation, so it calculates the firstsortedvalue (or lastsortedvalue in this case) for each estimate_number. I hope this all makes sense.


P.S. Someone else offered this for a possible fix, but it only works in certain cases also. In this example,


Quote_number = est_rev_nbr

Estimate = amount


= Sum({<Quote_number = {"= Max(Quote_number)"} >} Estimate)

OR

= Sum(Aggr(Sum({<Quote_number = {"= Max(Quote_number)"} >} Estimate), Description))


Thanks, as always, for your help,


Ben

sunny_talwar

Try this

Sum(Aggr(If(est_rev_nbr = Max(TOTAL <job_number> est_rev_nbr), Sum(amount)), job_number, description, est_rev_nbr))

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blpetosa
Contributor III
Contributor III
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Sunny, thank you! This is exactly what I needed. I really appreciate your help with this. I was in all day meetings yesterday, and was dying to try it out. I went to my first Qlik conference this year, and plan on going from here on out. I would like to thank you in person some time, if you attend these.