Populating Numbered List from a Module with 4 or more dimensions:
Use Case: I am trying to create a Numbered List from a module with 4 dimensions typically SKU, Tier, Product and Level & few Line items. For modules dimensioned by 3 lists it is straightforward to create a View as the source of the Import with the 3 lists as Column items and the Line Items as Row items. Unfortunately this does not extend to 4 lists as you can't have 4 lists as Column items in the view pivot.
Source Module:
Target List:
Solution-
Step1:
Create a Helper list with 10k items(can be extended depending on your combination size).
Step2:
Create 2 lineitems in your source Module:
Name | Format | Formula |
Ranking | Number | RANK(1, ASCENDING, SEQUENTIAL) |
Helper Format | Helper(list) | FINDITEM(Helper, TEXT(Ranking)) |
Step3:
Create a new Staging Module with Helper list as the dimension:
Create a lineitem to fetch the Concat from the Source Module & another for filtering the saved view:
Name | Format | Formula |
Concat | Text | Source Module.Concat[FIRSTNONBLANK: Source Module.Helper Format] |
NOTBLANK Concat | Boolean | ISNOTBLANK(Concat) |
Step4:
Create a saved view in the above Staging module.
Step5:
Create an action to transfer this data from the above Saved view into the numbered list.
Answers
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Nice solution!
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Very smart idea, love it! I would recommend to add a counter in a separate module that checks if the 10k list items is enough. Just to avoid hidden failures. 🙂
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Thank you @JaredDolich0
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Thank you @PhilippErkinger.
Couldn't agree more on the Counter module & it can even be used to populate a subset of the bigger(Helper) list.1 -
...and not to forget; RANK has a limit of 50 Mio Cells. But at such a high cell count, FINDITEM will also become concerning for the performance. 😉
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