Month and Actual Goal

A_Benincasa
A_Benincasa Member
in Magic ETL

Hello all looking to make a case statement, I could be using the wrong one. I want to have a Beast mode that states when a specific month then it states what the goal is, picture below.

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Thank you in advance

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  • GrantSmith
    GrantSmith Coach
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    Why are you including the THEN '12' or THEN '9' clauses? This isn't valid syntax. You can only have one then clause for each where clause.

    If you're wanting to combine both values together you can use CONCAT:

    CASE WHEN MONTH(`Date`) IN (10,1,2) THEN CONCAT(`Actual Goal`, ' 12')
WHEN MONTH(`Date`) IN (11,12) THEN CONCAT(`Actual Goal`, ' 9')
END

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  • GrantSmith
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    CASE WHEN MONTH(`Date`) IN (10,1,2) AND `Actual Goal` < 12 THEN 'Yes'
WHEN MONTH(`Date`) IN (11,12) THEN AND `Actual Goal` < 9 THEN 'Yes'
ELSE 'No'
END

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  • GrantSmith
    GrantSmith Coach
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    Why are you including the THEN '12' or THEN '9' clauses? This isn't valid syntax. You can only have one then clause for each where clause.

    If you're wanting to combine both values together you can use CONCAT:

    CASE WHEN MONTH(`Date`) IN (10,1,2) THEN CONCAT(`Actual Goal`, ' 12')
WHEN MONTH(`Date`) IN (11,12) THEN CONCAT(`Actual Goal`, ' 9')
END

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  • MichelleH
    MichelleH Coach

    @A_Benincasa The formula should work if you remove THEN `Actual Goal` from each line. In case statements WHEN identifies which rows to consider and THEN specifies what value to assign to those rows, so the formula will not work if there are multiple THENs for each WHEN.

  • A_Benincasa
    A_Benincasa Member

    @GrantSmith Thank you! I need to now add in a section that states, " Was Goal met Y/N" if it is less than those numbers above how would I include that in the beast mode?

  • GrantSmith
    GrantSmith Coach
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    CASE WHEN MONTH(`Date`) IN (10,1,2) AND `Actual Goal` < 12 THEN 'Yes'
WHEN MONTH(`Date`) IN (11,12) THEN AND `Actual Goal` < 9 THEN 'Yes'
ELSE 'No'
END

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  • A_Benincasa
    A_Benincasa Member

    The < sign does not work in a beast mode

  • GrantSmith
    GrantSmith Coach

    It should work, what type of error are you experiencing with the beast mode?

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  • A_Benincasa
    A_Benincasa Member

    @GrantSmith it's stating there is a syntax error, I am thinking it's because it referencing month numbers and not the name, but when I swap it out I get the same error

  • GrantSmith
    GrantSmith Coach

    Can you paste in your beast mode?

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