Display max value based on dimensions values

[#1]

Hi,

I'm new to QlikView and I'm trying to accomplish something that seems to me quite easy, but couldn't find the solution so far. I have one table like the next one:

KEY;DESCRIPTION;VALUE

1;Desc1;Value1

2;Desc1;Value2

3;Desc2;Value3

4;Desc2;Value4

How can I retrieve the value for the max KEY aggregated by description. The correct output would be:

2;Desc1;Value2

4;Desc2;Value4

I want to build a chart where the Description is the dimension and I only want to display the value for the maximum key (no sums or counts).

If it was in SQL it would be something like this;

select max(key), description, value from table

group by description, value;

Thanks!

[manas_bn]

Hello,

If DESCRIPTION is the only dimension, you can just use Max(KEY) as the expression.

Else, you can use aggr function - aggr(max(KEY),DESCRIPTION)

Hope this helps!

Manas

[MayilVahanan]

HI

Try like this

Load max(key) as Key, description, value from table

group by description, value;

Or

Description as dimension, max(Key) and Sum(value) as expression

[manas_bn]

If you want to limit the no of rows during reload itself, you can use left join, like in the below code.

source:

load * Inline [

KEY,DESCRIPTION,VALUE

1,Desc1,Value1

2,Desc1,Value2

3,Desc2,Value3

4,Desc2,Value4];

final:

load DESCRIPTION, max(KEY) as KEY Resident source

Group by DESCRIPTION;

left join(final)

load KEY, DESCRIPTION,VALUE Resident source;

drop Table source;

[#5]

Have you looked into AGGR function too

AGGR(max(key),description)

[#6]

I already took a look at the aggr function. If I use aggr(max(KEY),DESCRIPTION), it will return me the maximum key for every description. But how can I filter the expression just to retrieve the VALUE at the maximum KEY for every DESCRIPTION?

In the presented example, I want a chart that contains a column with Desc1 and Value1, and another column with Desc2 and Value 4 without restricting the data being loaded.

Thanks!

[manas_bn · Accepted solution]

Andre,

In that case you can use the below code to create another flag. It orders by Description and Key and assigns "1" for the description with max(Key).

FinalTable:

load DESCRIPTION, VALUE,KEY,

  if(DESCRIPTION=Previous(DESCRIPTION),0,1) as Flag

Resident SourceTable

Order by DESCRIPTION,KEY desc;

You can add Description and Value as dimensions and Flag as expression. It will display only the records which have flag=1 (the ones with the highest value of KEY). If you do not wish to show the FLAG column in the front end, go to presentation tab and hide the column. I have added a few more rows to your data just to make sure...

Cheers!

Manas

[Clever_Anjos]

you can do it at graph time using "FirstSortedValue" as below:

FirstSortedValue(DESCRIPTION,-KEY) and

FirstSortedValue(VALUE,-KEY)