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alenb
Partner - Contributor III
Partner - Contributor III

Subtract during load?

I wonder if something like this is possible. If I have data like this:

UNITS: Load * Inline [
Month, Return, Units
  10, , 5
  10, , 5
  10, x, 3
  11, , 2
  11, , 2
];


I should subtract the values where Return=x. 

 

Load 
  Month,
  Sum(Units, where Return ='') - Sum(Units, where Return=x) as Units  // <- I'm making this up
Resident UNITS; 

And the result would be 

Month, Units
10, 7
11, 4

 

 

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alenb
Partner - Contributor III
Partner - Contributor III
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I actually stated the problem wrongly, but thanks anyway, the IF statement was what I needed. What I ended up doing was just flipping the number to negative if Return=X, and after that all the sum expressions started working correctly.

if(Return='x',-Units, Units)) as Units

 

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QFabian
MVP
MVP

hI, @alenb ,!, very fun load, check this please :

 

UNITS:
Load * Inline [
Month, Return, Units
10, , 5
10, , 5
10, x, 3
11, , 2
11, , 2
];


Load
recno() as Id,
Month,
Return,

Units,
if(rowno()=1, Units,if(Return='x',-Units, Units)) as UnitsForSum

Resident UNITS;

drop table UNITS;

Greetings!! Fabián Quezada (QFabian)
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MayilVahanan

Hi @alenb 

Load Month, Units, If(Len(Trim(Return))=0, Units, -Units) as Return Inline [
Month, Return, Units
10, , 5
10, , 5
10, x, 3
11, , 2
11, , 2
];

Dim: Month
Measure: Sum(Return) , Sum(Units)

Thanks & Regards, Mayil Vahanan R
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alenb
Partner - Contributor III
Partner - Contributor III
Author

I actually stated the problem wrongly, but thanks anyway, the IF statement was what I needed. What I ended up doing was just flipping the number to negative if Return=X, and after that all the sum expressions started working correctly.

if(Return='x',-Units, Units)) as Units

 

QFabian
MVP
MVP

it´s amazing when you start to understand how qlik works on loading, first you could think a complex formula to solve it, but after look at the data in qlik, you just create perfect and simple formulas like you did.

 

Greetings!! Fabián Quezada (QFabian)
did it work for you? give like and mark the solution as accepted.