Count in listbox using variable or expression

[#1]

Hi, I'm new in qlikview making my first steps into this world of magic.

I'm trying to make a count of occuring products in a product table in a listbox, count per type of product.

Seems to work fine if I use the count as an expression in the listbox object.

My expression in the listbox oblect : Count (Product_ProductType_Code)

Now I want to replace this by a variable to be able te reuse it.

So I've created a variabel containing this expression :

And then use this variable in my listbox expression.

But I get a different result as shown below (left = count in listbox expression, right is using variable in listbox expression).
In the result using the variable I get a total count of all products instead of a count on product type.

I expected the results to be the same but it's not.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any help in understanding this.

Hugo

[sujeetsingh]

How can you the single variable can provide different values.

A variable here is calculating the entire total without any distribution of the Product type.

I recommend you to use the expression only.

What you want to achieve , why you want variable?

[#3]

Hi, thanks voor replying so quickly.

I'm now just trying to understand why the result is different and how I can get the same result when using an variable.
The idea is to make the field that needs to be counted omitted so I only need 1 variable/expression for the count of any field I want to show of let the user choose wicht count to show.

Don't now if this is possible as simple as this but that's what I'm thinking of.

[morganaaron · Accepted solution]

Hi Hugo,

In your variable, remove the = sign at the beginning - what this tells Qlikview is to calculate the value globally, so it will return a total.

If you're storing it as text, when you then reference it in your listbox, include a DSE (dollar sign expansion) to calculate the expression you're storing.

So your variable is Count(Product_ProductType_Code)

And your expression will be =$(vCountProductType)

Thanks.

[sujeetsingh]

Variable can not achieve this.

Why you want to omit it?

From where you want it to be omitted ?

Use hide prefix

Set Hide Prefix=$;

Now rename

Product_ProductType_Code as $Product_ProductType_Code

[#6]

Hi Aaron,

That's exactly what I wanted to now and understand.

Guess I need to get familiar with the syntax and it's differences in result.

Thanks!