I have a working chart of podcast episodes by download count in a query. That query is used to create a table chart in Data Studio. The file name formats are as follows: 2020/889-Jan-16-2020-DMP.mp3
Well Episode 1000 isn't showing at the top now in the sorting order. Because it thinks 1000 is less than 999. See table below:
2020/999-Jun-24-2020-DMP.mp3
2020/998-Jun-23-2020-DMP.mp3
2020/997-Jun-22-2020-DMP.mp3
2020/996-Jun-21-2020-DMP.mp3
2020/995-Jun-18-2020-DMP.mp3
2020/994-Jun-17-2020-DMP.mp3
2020/993-Jun-16-2020-DMP.mp3
continuing ...
2020/886-Jan-13-2019-DMP.mp3
2020/885-Jan-12-2019-DMP.mp3
2020/884-Jan-9-2019-DMP.mp3
2020/883-Jan-8-2019-DMP.mp3
2020/882-Jan-7-2019-DMP.mp3
2020/881-Jan-6-2019-DMP.mp3
2020/880-Jan-5-2019-DMP.mp3
2020/879-Jan-2-2019-DMP.mp3
2020/1001-Jun-30-2020-DMP.mp3 <-------Should be at the top of the table
2020/1000-Jun-29-2020-DMP.mp3 <-------Should be at the top of the table
2019/878-Dec-19-2019-DMP.mp3
2019/877-Dec-18-2019-DMP.mp3
2019/876-Dec-17-2019-DMP.mp3
Let me know if that makes sense...
1) REGEXP_EXTRACT
It can be achieved by adding the REGEXP_EXTRACT Calculated Field below as the Sort field and setting the order to Descending (The RegEx extracts the respective number component, for example 1001):
AVG(CAST(REGEXP_EXTRACT(Field, "^\\d+/(\\d+)-") AS NUMBER ) )
Google Data Studio Report and a GIF to elaborate:
2) Troubleshooting Calculated Fields (Invalid Formula)
Adding a section on general troubleshooting for Calculated Fields based on an Earlier Post on the Google Data Studio Forum:
Field Editing: Have a look at whether Field Editing is Enabled (Although it shouldn't affect creating Data Source Calculated fields);
Refresh: Refresh the Data Source Fields as well as a Fields in the Report;
Page Reload: Shortcut - F5;
Hard Page Reload: Shortcut - Ctrl + F5;
Chart-level Calculated Field: Double check whether using a Chart-level Calculated Field instead of a Data Source-level Calculated Field, resolves the issue.
I found that doing this worked too - sort date granularity by Year Week
Sort date granularity by Year Week
Maybe I missed it but I'm attempting to create a dynamic 'Month' parameter based on a datetime field - but can't seem to get just the month! ? Am I missing something ?
here's my source DTTM date/time field -
In Manage Data > Edit [selected] Data Set > Data source
Just add 'calculated field':
truncDate('MM', date)
where MM returns the month portion of the date.
See manual of truncDate function
The only place in Quicksight that you can get just a month, e.g. "September" is on a date-based axis of a visual. To do so, click the dropdown arrow next to the field name in the fields list, select "Format: (date)" then "More Formatting Options..." then "Custom" and enter MMMM in the Custom format input box.
Quicksight menu selection as described
This will then show the full month name on the date axis in your visual. NB It will use the full month name on this visual for ALL time period "Aggregations" - e.g. if you change the visual to aggregate by Quarter, it will display the full name of the quarter's first month etc.
If you are talking about "Parameters" in the Quicksight analysis view then you can only create a "Datetime" formatted parameter and then only use the "Date picker" box format for this parameter in a control (+ filter).
If you use a calculated field in either data preparation or analysis view the only date functions do not allow full month names as an output, you can get the month number as an integer or one of the allowed date formats here:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/data-source-limits.html#supported-date-formats
You'll need to hardcode the desired results using ifelse, min, and extract.
Extract will pull out the month as an integer. Quicksight has a desire to beginning summing integers, so we'll put MIN in place to prevent that.
ifelse(min(extract('MM',Date)) = 1,'January',min(extract('MM',Date)) = 2,'February',min(extract('MM',Date)) = 3,'March',min(extract('MM',Date)) = 4,'April',min(extract('MM',Date)) = 5,'May',min(extract('MM',Date)) = 6,'June',min(extract('MM',Date)) = 7,'July',min(extract('MM',Date)) = 8,'August',min(extract('MM',Date)) = 9,'September',min(extract('MM',Date)) = 10,'October',min(extract('MM',Date)) = 11,'November',min(extract('MM',Date)) = 12,'December','Error')
Also, I apologize if this misses the mark. I'm not able to see the screeshot you posted due to security controls here at the office.
You can use the extract function. Works like this:
event_timestamp Nov 9, 2021
extract('MM', event_timestamp)
11
You can add a calculated field using the extract function:
extract returns a specified portion of a date value. Requesting a time-related portion of a date that doesn't contain time information returns 0.
extract('MM', date_field)
I am working on an entity view that displays billing records with associated date. This date field needs to be displayed as "Month - Year". Unfortunately, I am not able to find a way to format this date field outside of modifying the entity and even then, I only have the option for date only or date and time.
I have noticed that I can select the field and click on Change Properties. There I have "Web Resource" and Function Name. I have tried creating a web resource with a function that returns some data. Set everything up, saved and published. This function is not even found in dev tools. Only examples that I have for it are dealing with using this method for icons:https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/view-customization-with-javascript-in-dynamics-365/
In another example the suggestion is to use calculated fields, but this would cause me to lose date sorting and filtering on the form.
That view-based JavaScript seems to be to choose an icon. I'm not sure it would allow you to reformat actual data in the view. And if you're looking for assistance with trying to do that, you'd probably get more help if you posted the code.
Besides the JavaScript approach, you might want to think about creating a separate text field to hold the "Month - Year" value. Then you could use a workflow, plugin, or JavaScript to populate it when the datetime field changes.
One of the free workflow tool packages (Jason Lattimer's, Aiden Kaskela's, or Andrew Butenko's) probably has the ability to parse the date so you can format the month and year, and store the string in the separate field. This would be a no-code option.
Alternatively, you could write a plugin to reformat the datetime values and register it on the RetrieveMultiple message of the entity.
I'd probably go with a separate field and an off-the-shelf workflow utility to populate it.
There are several ways:
1. Setting->Administration->System Setting->Format->Customize,
2. http://prntscr.com/ph42nc,
3. or use on load with js to change date format more on this subject here: How to change date format in JavaScript
I use Google Sheets to keep a list of applications I am doing. In each row there is a date field. I want to sort by date now. The first row is frozen using View - Freeze - 1 row. When I select the whole table, press Data - Sort range... and then check Data has header row the sheet is sorted. But not by date but by string. The format of the cells is date. Is only string sorting possible? If yes, I would have to reformat the whole document to dates like 2017-01-11, correct?
The solution was to replace the . by /. Seems as if the common german format using . is not yet supported. Make sure the date is recognized as date. If the cell is right-aligned it worked, if not it did not work.
I learned that you can create a custom date format using the ..
Now the date is entered 10/01/2017 but displayed 10.01.2017. Just the way I wanted.
I have sheet in Qlik Cloud, where I have dataset from whole month. I would like to filter this dataset by date or time - 1 day, 1 week, 12 hours... column with date/time in format yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss is in dataset for each row. Is possible insert some calendar? Or have you any idea?
Thanks for your answers ;)
Provided that your data is loaded correctly, drag the field directly onto the sheet. This will create a look-up box that can be searched.
You can see if the field has been identified correctly as a date as it will appear like this on the field selector
Another Option
Create a filter box option and add your date field to it, the benefit of this is that you can have multiple filters in one place. Allowing users to pick the part of the date relevant to them. For example showing the year field, the month field and the date field in one
one more option
Using non-standard Qlik extensions you can achieve the functionality that you require. SenseDateRangePicker is an extension that provides extended date selection functionality.