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brandk
Contributor III
Contributor III

Handling field names with spaces in ODAG script

Good day I am developing on demand apps. I have used the binding script below in my Template/Detailed app. My problem is that there are certain field names with spaces for example the field "Client ID " in the script below.  When I try run  the app I get "Unexpected token error". THE script works fine when I use other field names with no spaces.Unfortunately I cannot change this field name  because it is linked to other systems and it would require those systems to be changed too. Could anyone please assist. 

 

 

//Creates a WHERE statement which can be used in table loads to restrict the data to a smaller set

SUB ExtendWhere(Name, ValVarName)
LET T = Name & '_COLNAME';
LET ColName = $(T);
LET Values = $(ValVarName);
IF len(Values) > 0 THEN
IF len(WHERE_PART) > 0 THEN //If WHERE clause exists then extend it with further values
LET WHERE_PART = '$(WHERE_PART) AND MATCH($(ColName),$(Values))';
ELSE
LET WHERE_PART = ' WHERE MATCH($(ColName),$(Values))'; //If WHERE clause does not exist then create it
ENDIF
ENDIF
END SUB;

//Here we set the variables ready to hold the names of any fields we want considering for ODAG filtering (selection)
SET Sel_Implementation = ;      //resets the variable from any previous reload
SET Sel_Implementation = $(od_Implementation);   // follow 'ods_' with the field name as it appears in your UI / final load
SET Sel_Implementation_COLNAME ='Implementation'; // enter the field name as it appears in the source data

SET Sel_Client ID= ;
SET Sel_Client ID= $(od_Client ID);
SET Sel_Client ID_COLNAME =Client ID;

SET WHERE_PART = '';

//This section builds the WHERE_PART variables that are passed to the SUB
//It extracts the values that have been selected from each field

FOR EACH fldname IN 'Sel_Implementation', 'Sel_Client ID'
LET vallist = $(fldname);
WHEN (IsNull(vallist)) LET vallist = '';
IF len(vallist) > 0 THEN
CALL ExtendWhere('$(fldname)','$(vallist)');
ENDIF
NEXT fldname

//Evaluate the WHERE_PART variable in the script for debugging
TRACE Generated WHERE clause: ;
TRACE $(WHERE_PART);

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Brett_Bleess
Former Employee
Former Employee

See the following post for solution:

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Sense-App-Development/Handling-field-names-with-spaces-in-ODAG-sc...

Regards,
Brett

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Brett_Bleess
Former Employee
Former Employee

I have reached out to product management to see if they can have a look at this post, not sure how long it may take them to get to it though.  I checked defect system, but I could not really find anything that fit, so we will have to wait to see if the PM knows something on this.

Regards,
Brett

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Brett_Bleess
Former Employee
Former Employee

See the following post for solution:

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Sense-App-Development/Handling-field-names-with-spaces-in-ODAG-sc...

Regards,
Brett

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