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rubenacampos
Contributor III
Contributor III

Creating a new field using multiple if statements in data load editor

I'm trying to create a new field when my data loads based on multiple conditions.  The following fields are loaded with the data load editor:

[Procurement Type]

[Primary Contract Type]

[Procurement Action]

From these fields I would like to create a new field called "COR Type" based on multiple criteria found within the fields above using an IF Statement:

if(([Procurement Type]='SERVICES' or 'R&D' or 'CONSTRUCTION') and ([Primary Contract Type]='Firm Fixed Price' or 'Order Dependent') and ([Procurement Action]<>'*MOD*'),'Type A',
if(([Procurement Type]='SERVICES' or 'R&D' or 'CONSTRUCTION') and ([Primary Contract Type]<>'Firm Fixed Price' or 'Order Dependent' or '*Cost*') and ([Procurement Action]<>'*MOD*'),'Type B',
if(([Procurement Type]='SERVICES' or 'A&E' or 'R&D' or 'CONSTRUCTION') and ([Primary Contract Type]='*Cost*') and ([Procurement Action]<>'*MOD*'),'Type C'))) AS "COR Type"

The new "COR Type" field is created but the results only show Type A and Type B when the [Procurement Type] = Services.  All the other [Procurement Type] are not evaluated nor is the [Primary Contract Type] and [Procurement Action] evaluated.  Thank you in advance for your assistance! 

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dplr-rn
Partner - Master III
Partner - Master III

As i dont know the business logic and dont have any sample data difficult to check the logic

but use of use of wildcard characters will not work in simple = and <> statements

e.g.

([Procurement Action]<>'*MOD*') will not work as wilcard search ; will need to use wildmatch function instead

rubenacampos
Contributor III
Contributor III
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Dilipranjith,

Does each scenario need to be listed separately or is it possible to group like I have done?    

dplr-rn
Partner - Master III
Partner - Master III

Not clear what you mean

You could do

wildmatch( [Primary Contract Type],'Firm Fixed Price' ,'Order Dependent', '*Cost*') will retunr

wildmatch will return 1 if value is Firm Fixed Price

2 if value is Order Dependent

3 if its like *Cost*

and 0 if it doesnt match

 

rubenacampos
Contributor III
Contributor III
Author

The  link attached has the working solution.  Thank you for your help!

https://community.qlik.com/t5/New-to-Qlik-Sense/Creating-a-new-field-using-multiple-if-statements-in...