I’m new to the MODEL clause. I’m trying to track volume of worked/unworked to-do items over time.
What I HAVE is:
work_date
born (# of new to-dos per date),
robo (# of computer-closed to-dos per date)
worked (# of human-close to-dos per date).
What I want to GENERATE is additional columns for:
carryover (# of leftovers from yesterday)
workable (carryover + born - robo)
leftover (today's workable - worked)
I got half of what I want with:
select work_date, carryover, born, robo, workable, worked, leftover
from ( ... )
model
ignore nav
dimension by (work_date)
measures ( 0 as carryover, born, robo, 0 as workable, worked, 0 as leftover )
rules
(
carryover[work_date] = leftover[cv(work_date)-1],
workable[work_date] = carryover[cv(work_date)] + born[cv(work_date)] - robo[cv(work_date)],
leftover[work_date] = workable[cv(work_date)] - worked[cv(work_date)]
)
order by work_date
but carryover is always 0, for reasons not clear to me. (OK, I threw in an ITERATE (100) just for the sake of experimentation and some good old cargo cult programming, and did get the right results, but why, and how to choose a correct iterate size is even LESS clear to me)