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Josh_Good
Employee
Employee

Aliasing Fields using Data Definitions

This videos show how to use a data dictionaryto alias (or rename) fields.

http://youtu.be/Cyjg4LQN9Vo

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magavi_framsteg
Partner - Creator III
Partner - Creator III

Hi Josh.

This is very good.

However, in some cases the datasource field names are coded, i.e TLBKID, TRTTYP.

As a developer I would normally rename the fields on which I do something (where clauses, if statements etc.) in the beginning of the script, for better readability.

Then at the end of the script I could use your technique to rename the rest of the fields.

Kind regards

Magnus Åvitsland

BI Consultant

Framsteg Business Intelligence Corp.

Josh_Good
Employee
Employee
Author

Very good point Magnus.  This technique can be used in combination with manual aliasing.  QlikView will simply keep the manually aliased names and replace the ones that have not been manually aliased.


Regards,

Josh

pam1990
Contributor III
Contributor III

This was helpful. Thank You