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Assigning a numerical value to text strings in Qlikview

Hi All,

I'm hoping qlikview is able to do the following so that I dont have to do it in excel first and wondered if anyone here might be able to provide any assistance?

I have some data with a 5 possible answers as shown below

Name          How has your weight changed over the last year?    
Arnold          Increased A lot

Jenny          Increased a little

Max               Not changed

Heather          Decreased a little

Ron               Decreased a lot

What I want to do is show these on a guage using by assigning each possible answer a number, so Increased a lot = 2, increased a little = 1, no change = 0 etc into -1 and -2.

Is there any way I can do this In qlikview?

Ideall I would like to add it as an extra field so can I incorporate into the load script?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Andrew

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Anonymous
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Andrew, you can do it using dual() function.  No need for an additional field.  Can be done with mapping or with 4-level "if".

With map:

MyMap:

MAPPING LOAD * INLINE[

A,                          B

Increased A lot,       2  

Increased a little,      1

Not changed,          0

Decreased a little,     -1

Decreased a lot,          -2

];

data:

LOAD

dual([How has], applymap('MyMap',[How has])) as [How has],

...

The new [How has] is the text and the number at the same time.

Regards,

Michael

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Hi Michael,

This sounds great but I'm not sure how the mapping works? (not done mapping before)

Are you saying i need to create an excel file (or similar) called MyMap? or can i write this directly into the script?

Sorry about this, but clarity on how to do the map would be great.

thanks,

Andrew

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Hello,

You can write directly in the script and use.

Vegar
MVP
MVP

You can use Dual() values.


Here is one way of doing it.


CreateDuals:

LOAD dual(text,number) as YourFieldName INLINE [

text, number

Increased a lot, 2

increased a little,1

no change = 0 ];



Load the rest of your datamodel.


Drop the tabl CreateDuals.


/Vegar

Anonymous
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Vegar Lie Arntsen,

Technically it is fine, but not good from the data modeling point - you create additional table which is unnecessary.  Dual is better.

Andrew,

See example attached.  notice taht I have two lisy boxes for Answer - one is in text fromat, another in numeric, and it is the same field.

Regards,

Michael

Vegar
MVP
MVP

I missed the point that my solution only works if you have the numeric values in the transaction table (not the text) and you want to introduce a dual text value. So in this case it will not work, the applymap solution is one way to go.

Michael Solomovich

I think you misunderstood the solution I presented. Yes I introduce a table in the model, but it is only temporary. I delete it after population my field with transaction data. The applymap-method is much slower and breaks the optimized load of qvds, the predefined dual method is faster and does not break optimized load.

Example code:

MyTempDualMaker:

LOAD dual(A,B) as Answer INLINE [

A, B

Increased A lot, 2 

Increased a little, 1

Not changed, 0

Decreased a little, -1

Decreased a lot, -2];

YourDataSource:

LOAD * INLINE [

Name, Answer 

Arnold, 2

Jenny, 1

Max, 0

Heather, -1

Vegar, 0

Ron, 2

];

DROP TABLE MyTempDualMaker;

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Hi both,

thanks for all your help, but really not getting on very well with this after scouring through everything youve said.

I've added this to the load script:

 

MyMap:

LOAD dual(A,B) as [UncertaintyComparedToLastYear] INLINE [
A, B
Increased significantly, 2
Increased somewhat, 1
Broadly unchanged, 0
Declined somewhat, -1
Declined significantly, -2
]
;

<<<Then I carry on loading my data.... there are several tables>>>

Directory; 

LOAD

[Unique ID],
Year (Created) as Year,

Name,
[Email address],
Industry,
UncertaintyComparedToLastYear,

It just doesnt seem to be working... can you help?

the uncertainty field is the one I want to have mapped - you can see the 5 possilbe options from the MyMap

Kind regards and thanks for your help,

Andrew