How to create an inline table from an existing table - qliksense

Question

I have a table in qlik Sense loaded from the database.
Example:
ID
FRUIT
VEG
COUNT
1
Apple
5
2
Figs
10
3
Carrots
20
4
Oranges
12
5
Corn
10
From this I need to make a filter that will display all the Fruit/Veg records along with records from other joined tables, when selected.
The filter needs to be something like this :
|FRUIT_XXX|
|VEG_XXX |
Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

I do not know how to do it in qlicksense, but in SQL it's like this:
SELECT
ID
CASE WHEN FRUIT IS NULL THEN VEG ELSE FRUIT END as FruitOrVeg,
COUNT
FROM tablename

Answer 2

Not sure if its possible to be dynamic. Usually I solve these by creating a new field that combines the values from both fields into one field
RawData:
Load * Inline [
ID , FRUIT ,VEG , COUNT
1 , Apple , , 5
2 , Figs , , 10
3 , ,Carrots , 20
4 , Oranges , , 12
5 , ,Corn , 10
];
Combined:
Load
ID,
'FRUIT_' & FRUIT as Combined
Resident
RawData
Where
FRUIT <> ''
;
Concatenate
Load
ID,
'VEG_' & VEG as Combined
Resident
RawData
Where
VEG <> ''
;
This will create new table (Combined) which will be linked to the main table by ID field:
The new Combined field will have the values like this:
And the UI:
P.S. If further processing is needed you can join the Combined table to the RawData table. This way the Combined field will become part of the RawData table. To achieve this just extend the script a bit:
join (RawData)
Load * Resident Combined;
Drop Table Combined;