Please explain this load statement

[akpofureenughwu]

Hello sir,

I am trying to work on two tables that has unique dates. In my bid to sync both dates to become one, I got to this blog : https://community.qlik.com/docs/DOC-5834.

my tables are in the format:

Expenditure

Expenditure  Date	Location	Expenditure Item	Expenditure Figure (Naira) PER	Expenditure Figure (Naira) YTD	Expenditure Figure (Naira) ITD
01/12/1999	Lagos	CAPEX	1,184	1,184,485,207.69	1,184,485,207.69
01/12/1999	Lagos	OPEX	5,544,029,077.16	5,544,029,077.16	5,544,029,077.16
01/12/1999	Lagos	Revenue	0	0	0
01/12/1999	Lagos
01/12/1999	Lagos

Cash Call

Cash Date	Location	Partner	Equity	PER NGN	YTD NGN	ITD NGN
01/12/1999	Lagos	Barry	55	-3,450.00	-3,450.00	-3,450.00
01/12/1999	Lagos	Young	45	-1,607.00	-1,607.00	-1,607.00

My first question is

Please explain this load statement:

Orders:

LOAD *, 1 as OrderCounter INLINE [

OrderId, OrderDate, Quantity

1, 01/01/2012, 101

2, 01/01/2012, 102

3, 02/01/2012, 103

4, 03/01/2012, 104

5, 03/03/2012, 105

6, 03/04/2012, 106

]

;  I saw it from this blog https://community.qlik.com/docs/DOC-5834.

and

must I do it scripting for all columns on my tables above? 

see attached for clarity?

Regards

[effinty2112]

Hi Akpofure,

The script just adds a column called OrderCounter  with the single value of 1. The reason for this is to give a different way to count the number of orders, so instead of count(OrderId) use sum(OrderCounter). Some believe there is a performance improvement in doing it that way. I'm not so sure there is but it's easy to try it out.

If your second question asks if you need to do something like this when loading your tables then no is the answer.

Cheers

Andrew

[akpofureenughwu]

Thank you Andrew,

My second question is how will you add to an app that has two data sources (and you need to sync them to become one).

That's my second question?

[effinty2112]

Hi Akpofure,

There are many ways to add your two tables to QV. The simplest might be concatenation. In the script below I've changed the name of the two date fields to Date and added a new field to each called Transaction Type.

Transactions:

LOAD * , 'Expenditure' as [Transaction Type] INLINE [

    Date, Location, Expenditure Item, Expenditure Figure (Naira) PER, Expenditure Figure (Naira) YTD, Expenditure Figure (Naira) ITD

    01/12/1999, Lagos, CAPEX, "1,184", "1,184,485,207.69", "1,184,485,207.69"

    01/12/1999, Lagos, OPEX, "5,544,029,077.16", "5,544,029,077.16", "5,544,029,077.16"

    01/12/1999, Lagos, Revenue, 0, 0, 0

    01/12/1999, Lagos, , ,

    01/12/1999, Lagos

];

Concatenate (Transactions)

LOAD *  , 'Cash Call' as [Transaction Type] INLINE [

    Date, Location, Partner, Equity, PER NGN, YTD NGN, ITD NGN

    01/12/1999, Lagos, Barry, 55, "-3,450.00", "-3,450.00", "-3,450.00"

    01/12/1999, Lagos, Young, 45, "-1,607.00", "-1,607.00", "-1,607.00"

];

good luck

Andrew

[akpofureenughwu]

Hello Andrew,

Thanks,

Your suggestions is great but thats not what on my mind.

I want to merge just the two dates and make them one.  more like this : Date Combo

  Linking to two or more dates

Regards