Sunday 17 March 2013

Dates in QlikView - Part 3

It's taken me a little longer than I wanted to complete this next instalment of my series of posts on dates in QlikView. I wanted to get the post about the dual() function finished first as it can be very useful when working with dates and is referenced below. My work commitments keep getting in the way too. Anyway, let's crack on...

In the first 2 parts of this series, I looked at how dates are stored in QlikView and how to ensure you have them in the right format to be most effective. So now that we have that out the way, lets looks at how we can start to make dates more useful for using in charts and objects within the front end of QlikView.

Despite looking in part 2 at how we worked to combine parts of a date stored separately in order to create a "true date" from them, we often want to do the reverse also and split the date into its composite parts. For example, we might want to be able to select individual years without having to select every date in those years, or we might wish to be able to display a bar chart showing our sales by month.