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Anonymous
Not applicable

Canonical date problem

hi all,

I have normally have 3 xls sheets with different tasks, these I would like to combine into 1 MasterFile and use QlikView to present the data.

As the 3 xls have their own date I'm looking at the CanonicalDate, but its not easy to understand fully

My load script look like this

SET ThousandSep='.';

SET DecimalSep=',';

SET MoneyThousandSep='.';

SET MoneyDecimalSep=',';

SET MoneyFormat='kr. #.##0,00;kr. -#.##0,00';

SET TimeFormat='hh:mm:ss';

SET DateFormat='DD-MM-YYYY';

SET TimestampFormat='DD-MM-YYYY hh:mm:ss[.fff]';

SET MonthNames='jan;feb;mar;apr;maj;jun;jul;aug;sep;okt;nov;dec';

SET DayNames='ma;ti;on;to;fr;lø;sø';

TempSource:

LOAD ID as TaskID,

     Type,

     [QA Responsible],

     [QBIQ no./other description],

     [Present in GS SOP Process Overview Excel file],

     [QBIQ doc.title/other description],

     [SOP author/       contact person],

     [GS Area],

     [Project

name],

     [CR no.],

     [Triggered by NC3/QAP/Process update],

     [QAP deadline if relevant],

     Week([1. review deadline if relevant]) as WeekSOP1Review,

     Week([2. review deadline if relevant]) as WeekSOP2Review,

     [Expected date available on QBIQ if relevant],

     MakeWeekDate(2015,[Week of expected QA]) as WeekNumberExpectedQA,

     [Date of expected QA (if any)],

     [OPEN/   FINALISED],

     [Actual date of finalising all QA activities],

     QBIQ,

     Area,

     [Document title],

     [lastest effective date in QBIQ],

     [Current author],

     [Project name],

     Task,

     [Expected startdate],

     [Expected end date]

FROM

MasterFileTasks.xlsx

(ooxml, embedded labels, table is Upcoming);

Qualify * ; // to avoid syn keys

SOPS:

LOAD

     TaskID,

     [OPEN/   FINALISED],

     [QBIQ doc.title/other description],

     [QA Responsible],

     [Area]

Resident TempSource where Type ='SOP';

QAPS:

LOAD

     TaskID,

     QBIQ,

     Area,

     [Document title],

     Week([lastest effective date in QBIQ]) as Weeknumber,

     [Current author]

Resident TempSource where Type ='QAP';

PROJECTS:

LOAD

     TaskID,

     [Project name],

     Task,

     [Expected startdate],

     [Expected end date]

Resident TempSource where Type ='Projects';

DateBridge:

Load TaskID, Applymap('TaskID2TaskDate',TaskID,Null()) as CanonicalDate, 'Tasks' as DateType

Resident TempSource;

When I look at the table viewer it looks like this

export.png

I was expecting some connection to the databridge!!

The overall idea is that I select 1 date from a mastercalender and then I can see which tasks we have pending for the given week!!

9 Replies
kuczynska
Creator III
Creator III

You should start from using UNQUALIFY fieldname; in your script. Right now there aren't any association between the tables as all of the fields have different names (caused by QUALIFY *;)


How exactly you want to associate your tables? Via date field? or TaskID? For example in the PROJECTS table you have 2 date fields - which one you would want to use?

Maybe start from using UNQUALIFY TaskID;

Not applicable
Author

You must use:

UNQUALIFY <field name>

In order to create a the desired links.

QUALIFY * adds the name of the table before all field names unless you UNQUALIFY the required fields by name.

Not applicable
Author

Remove the QUALIFY * statement as you don't need it.

TASKID is your link between tables and databridge, to avoid synthetic keys, alias the other fields that are common across the tables,

Anonymous
Not applicable
Author

Hi

I have removed the Qualify statement and now it looks like this

Capture.PNG

It seems that TaskID is at least correct for the DataBridge but the rest got a $Syn, why is that and why was it not the TaskID that will be the connection?

Not applicable
Author

You need to alias out the other fields.

Anonymous
Not applicable
Author

How to do that?

I expect that if I e.g. remove the SOPS: then the alias will be removed but table also removed !!

kuczynska
Creator III
Creator III

You must rename the fields creating additional associations between the tables - either manually by creating an alias using AS statement in your load script, or you can keep QUALIFY/UNQUALIFY functions in your code.

What I would do now is too keep :

QUALIFY*; // in your load script

//and also add the line:

UNQUALIFY TaskID;

In that way you can keep the full control of your model - if you think there should be more links (or different links) between the tables - simply add more fieldnames to the UNQUALIFY statement, example:

UNQUALIFY TaskID,  DateType; //and so on

qlikviewwizard
Master II
Master II

Can you attach the sample data. It will help the folks to better understand the requirement.

Anonymous
Not applicable
Author

I have made a bit more simple example.....

The goal to have 1 masterfile that will be used to list all the tasks for a specific week within the different areas (Other, SOP and QAP)

How can I attach the example? I can only add a video or image!!!

My script look like this

SET ThousandSep='.';

SET DecimalSep=',';

SET MoneyThousandSep='.';

SET MoneyDecimalSep=',';

SET MoneyFormat='kr. #.##0,00;kr. -#.##0,00';

SET TimeFormat='hh:mm:ss';

SET DateFormat='DD-MM-YYYY';

SET TimestampFormat='DD-MM-YYYY hh:mm:ss[.fff]';

SET MonthNames='jan;feb;mar;apr;maj;jun;jul;aug;sep;okt;nov;dec';

SET DayNames='ma;ti;on;to;fr;lø;sø';

TempSource:

LOAD TaskID,

     Type,

     [Other Task],

     [Other Task QA Responsible],

     [Other Task Expected QA Work],

     [Other Task State],

     SOPArea,

     [SOP Number],

     [SOP Author],

     [SOP Expected QA Work],

     [SOP QA Responsible],

     [SOP Status],

     [QAP QBIQ Number],

     [QAP Deadline],

     [QAP Area]

FROM

MasterFileTest.xlsx

(ooxml, embedded labels, table is Sheet1);

Qualify*; // to avoid syn keys

UnQualify TaskID;

SOPS:

LOAD

     TaskID,

     SOPArea,

     [SOP Number],

     [SOP Author],

     [SOP Expected QA Work],

     [SOP QA Responsible],

     [SOP Status]

Resident TempSource where Type ='SOP';

QAPS:

LOAD

     TaskID,

     [QAP QBIQ Number],

     [QAP Deadline],

     [QAP Area]

Resident TempSource where Type ='QAP';

OTHER:

LOAD

     TaskID,

     [Other Task],

     [Other Task QA Responsible],

     [Other Task Expected QA Work],

     [Other Task State]

Resident TempSource where Type ='Other';

DateBridge:

Load TaskID, Applymap('SOP Expected QA Work2TaskDate',TaskID,Null()) as CanonicalDate, 'SOP' as DateType

Resident TempSource;

Load TaskID, Applymap('QAP Deadline2TaskDate',TaskID,Null()) as CanonicalDate, 'QAP' as DateType

Resident TempSource;

Load TaskID, Applymap('Other Task Expected QA Work2TaskDate',TaskID,Null()) as CanonicalDate, 'Other' as DateType

Resident TempSource;

//Drop Table TempSource;

And my xls looks like this

TaskIDTypeOther TaskOther Task QA ResponsibleOther Task Expected QA WorkOther Task State SOPAreaSOP NumberSOP AuthorSOP Expected QA WorkSOP QA ResponsibleSOP StatusQAP QBIQ NumberQAP DeadlineQAP Area
1OtherValidateSSVD34Closed
2SOPSS12345GMIP44SSVDOpen
3OtherClean upSSVD40Open
4SOPSO432432FMIP43AQMOOpen
5SOPCCC22145DMSF44AQMOOpen
6SOPCCC432244DSFF41HPMAOpen
7SOPSO65432343WCJU34SSVDClosed
8QAP12332155CCC
9QAP423432444SO
10QAP43243243233SO
11QAP43243422SO
12QAP43243243SO
13QAP43243243243SO