Current Year vs Previous Year Sort Order

[#1]

Hi All,

I've Googled endlessly but seem unable to find a solution to my issue.

I have a table which holds records with a date field.  I am using the QlikView Components qvs to generate my "master calendar" from the date field (CaseDate).

The user can select Year, Month and Day to filter the various charts/tables on the report.

However, I want one chart to show a sum of figures based on the max date the person selects.  The chart should show the 12 months leading up to the selected date as the CY and the 12 months prior to that as the PY.

For example, if the user selects Year=2017, Month=Feb then I want the following data:

Current Year = Total records Mar-2016 to Feb-2017

Previous Year = Total records Mar-2015 to Feb-2016

Now, I can get this information using a Set Analysis but if I just return the month name then I can't get it to sort with Mar first and Feb last.  If I return the year to sort then I get 24 records rather than 12:

CaseYear-Month	CY	PY
2015-Mar	0	210
2015-Apr	0	171
2015-May	0	189
2015-Jun	0	244
2015-Jul	0	228
2015-Aug	0	169
2015-Sep	0	224
2015-Oct	0	224
2015-Nov	0	222
2015-Dec	0	183
2016-Jan	0	210
2016-Feb	0	243
2016-Mar	213	0
2016-Apr	204	0
2016-May	202	0
2016-Jun	212	0
2016-Jul	218	0
2016-Aug	196	0
2016-Sep	223	0
2016-Oct	197	0
2016-Nov	226	0
2016-Dec	174	0
2017-Jan	216	0
2017-Feb	207	0

I've attached a screenshot to try and show the issue.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Many thanks,

Phil

[adamdavi3s]

grrrrr so close

[sunny_talwar]

What are we trying to do here Adam?

[adamdavi3s]

Order the months ending with the selected months basically!

[adamdavi3s]

GOT IT!

I'll tidy this up

[sunny_talwar]

Not sure but may be this

If(Num(Only({1}MonthName))-Min(TOTAL MonthName) >= 0, Num(Only({1}MonthName))-Min(TOTAL MonthName), Num(Only({1}MonthName))-Min(TOTAL MonthName)+12)

or

If(Num(Only({1}MonthName))-Min(TOTAL MonthName) > 0, Num(Only({1}MonthName))-Min(TOTAL MonthName), Num(Only({1}MonthName))-Min(TOTAL MonthName)+12)

[adamdavi3s]

pahahahahaha so much simpler than mine, I think I went down this route but didn't twig on using TOTAL

This is the correct one I believe, makes sense how that works

If(Num(Only({1}MonthName))-Min(TOTAL MonthName) > 0, Num(Only({1}MonthName))-Min(TOTAL MonthName), Num(Only({1}MonthName))-Min(TOTAL MonthName)+12)

[sunny_talwar]

It can be further simplified by removing Num() which I used for testing purposes

If(Only({1}MonthName)-Min(TOTAL MonthName) > 0, Only({1}MonthName)-Min(TOTAL MonthName), Only({1}MonthName)-Min(TOTAL MonthName)+12)

[adamdavi3s]

No need to show off 😉

[Frank_Hartmann · Accepted solution]

what about this sortorder:

=Mod(Only({1}MonthName)-Min(TOTAL MonthName+1),12)+1

[sunny_talwar]

adamdavi3s‌ - Look who is showing off now