topic Re: Calculated item reported as "the variable is not supported" in SAS Visual Analytics

Calculated item reported as "the variable is not supported"

Oliver_Weng — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:13:58 GMT

Hello everyone,

I'm pretty new here and do have a question about the "caculated item" in VA reporting build. I hope, that someone can help me here. Thanks a lot.

The following "calculate item" was build in the VA report:

Sum [_ByGroup_] (( 'quantity'n *
'unit_price'n )) / Distinct [_ByGroup_] (
'oder: ID'n)

What I need is to build the summary of price and then divided by the number of orders, so I can get the average value of price pro order. In my data source table I have position of the order per row. So in the source I may have several rows with the same order ID but different position number. That's why I used "Distinct". But the summary of price is based on all the rows. So after I build the item it appeared under "Aggregated Measure" in the left side of the VA. But when I try to drop this item in my report. I got the "Error Message"

How can I get the average value and use it in my report??

Kind regards,

Oliver

Re: Calculated item reported as "the variable is not supported"

Madelyn_SAS — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:22:50 GMT

What is the data type of your numeric data items? They must be DOUBLE.

Re: Calculated item reported as "the variable is not supported"

Oliver_Weng — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 07:16:05 GMT

@Madelyn_SASThanks a lot for the reply. I will try to change the "quantity" data type from "int32" to "double" and try it again!

Re: Calculated item reported as "the variable is not supported"

Oliver_Weng — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 07:42:06 GMT

Hi @Madelyn_SAS ,

though our developer still haven't change the data type of the numeric data items, I found another way to build the desired variable.

My way is to separate the item in 2 parts. So I build one calculated item A ('quantity'n * 'unit_price'n) and another calculated item B (Distinct [_ByGroup_] ('oder: ID'n)). Then I put them together in calculated item C: Sum [_ByGroup_] (A) / B. And it works!! Do you have any idea, why this new item works? I still don't get it at all. 😛

Best,

Oliver