sum by $field

[adley51788]

Hello Everyone -

Trying to create a dynamic field overview where you can click around, but am having difficultly using sum($field).

Everything is showing up as 0. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Thanks.

[YoussefBelloum]

Hi,

can you add more info? like how you want it to be dynamic ? what type of objets you will use ?

[jwjackso · Accepted solution]

Try Sum($(=$Field)).  You will still get 0 if it is a text field.

[adley51788]

Hi Youssef,

Essentially, I am looking to profile the data using the system field $field.

For example:

I have 3 fields in the dashboard -

Amount

Customer Name

Customer Number

I would like to profile these fields by looking at the min value, max value, isnull, distinct values, and sum of values.

The all other aggregate functions are working properly, except for SUM. No matter what I try to do, set analysis, standard syntax, the value ends up  being zero.

Example code:

=sum($field)

=sum({1}$field)

Let me know if you need any additional detail.

[Anil_Babu_Samineni]

Believe this is fine to reply as much

1) First of All do you know how $field returns?

2) Even if you have 3 fields it returns all together that means sum never work

3) Can you share your experience what you've done which is working under neath?

[sushil353]

Hi,

$Field is a system field contains the name of the fields present in the dashboard.

Try below expression

=sum($(=MaxString($Field))) it is just getting the max field name present in the $Field

[marcus_sommer]

You could just create a table with $Table and $Field as dimensions and then you could use the approach from Jerry but you need to add square-brackets to ensure that it also worked by fields with spaces or any kind of special chars:

count([$(=$Field)])

- Marcus

[adley51788]

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for the quick replies! Jerry's response worked correctly.