Sort and group in script

[#1]

Dear Qlik community,

Advise me pls on the question - I need to group Net_Sales in script by Customer, than sort by Net_Sales with descending.

What I'm trying to perform:

LOAD Cust as Customer,

     sum([Sales net]) as Net_Sales

Resident SalesTable

Group by Cust

Order By [Sales net] desc;

Thanks

[swuehl]

The order by clause is sorting the input records, not the output records.

[From the HELP:

order_by

order by  is a clause used for sorting the records of a resident table before they are processed by the load statement

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so you would need a subsequent LOAD to order your aggregated values as demanded.

[Oleg_Troyansky · Accepted solution]

As far as I understand (and I might be wrong about it), you can't group and sort by a new calculated field in the same statement. Here is what's stated in QlikView Help:

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order by is a clause used for sorting the records of a resident table before they are processed by the load statement. The resident table can be sorted by one or more fields in ascending or descending order. The sorting is made primarily by numeric value and secondarily by national ASCII value. This clause may only be used when the data source is a resident table

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Based on that, you should first group your data, and then reload the same table again in a resident load and sort it using the ORDER BY clause.

cheers,

Oleg Troyansky

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[Oleg_Troyansky]

Jinx!