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7 years ago
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IF Statement taking too long to execute

Hi,   I have created a multiple IF statement but the statement is taking too long to execute, is there a way around this? My measure: Trend = IF([Count Negative Results] = 6, "Losing", IF([C...
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  • mwarren's avatar
    mwarren
    7 years ago

    Have you tried using 'SWITCH'?

     

    Trend = SWITCH( TRUE() ,
    [count negative results] = 6 , "Losing" ,
    [count negative results] in {3,4,5} && [Average Moving and CY TTM] <= -.6 , "Losing" , 

    etc....

     

    This has sped up my nested IF statements in the past.

     

  • dedelman_clng's avatar
    dedelman_clng
    7 years ago

    Have you tried making a call the measures and storing as variables outside of the IF/SWITCH ?

     

    Trend = 
var __CountNeg = [Count Negative Results]
var __AvgMov = [Average Moving and CY TTM]

RETURN

SWITCH(TRUE(),
__CountNeg = 6, "Losing", 
__CountNeg in {3,4,5} && __AvgMov <= -.6 ,"Losing", 
...

     

     

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mwarren
Frequent Visitor
7 years ago

Have you tried using 'SWITCH'?

 

Trend = SWITCH( TRUE() ,
[count negative results] = 6 , "Losing" ,
[count negative results] in {3,4,5} && [Average Moving and CY TTM] <= -.6 , "Losing" , 

etc....

 

This has sped up my nested IF statements in the past.

 

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Anonymous
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7 years ago

Thanks for the reply,
It worked faster than IF Statement, however, it still takes around 5 minutes to execute, is there any other workaround?

Thanks again!

  • mwarren's avatar
    mwarren
    Frequent Visitor
    7 years ago

    Next thing i would think of is looking at the measures you are referencing in statement and see if there is a way you could run those more efficiently.  

     

    Also maybe VAR them in the function instead of referencing them? I definately think 5 minutes is too long to run that statement though.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      7 years ago

      Hey,

       

      Thanks for the above inputs, I have different measures and i am counting the frequency of negative values of those measure. I dont find any other way to add these measures, please help!

       

      Count Negative Results = IF([TTM Var 1] < 0,1,0) + IF([TTM Var 2] < 0,1,0) + IF([TTM Var 3] < 0,1,0) + IF([TTM Var 4] < 0,1,0) + IF([TTM Var 5] < 0,1,0) + IF([TTM Var 6] < 0,1,0)
       
      Using If statement is the problem here for large computational time, please guide me if there is a way around.
       
      Thanks!
      • dedelman_clng's avatar
        dedelman_clng
        Community Champion
        7 years ago

        Have you tried making a call the measures and storing as variables outside of the IF/SWITCH ?

         

        Trend = 
var __CountNeg = [Count Negative Results]
var __AvgMov = [Average Moving and CY TTM]

RETURN

SWITCH(TRUE(),
__CountNeg = 6, "Losing", 
__CountNeg in {3,4,5} && __AvgMov <= -.6 ,"Losing", 
...