Using Complex U2 Conditions in Informer PRESENTER: Tim Nicholson| Director, Informer Customer Services| April 25, 2017

Agenda Order of Operations Conjunctions Compound Conditions Using Select Return List Algebra Associated Multivalues Q&A

Order of Operations Order matters? Yes and no. Top-down Parenthetical grouping (Compound Condition) Most restrictive condition first Avoid I-Descriptors/Computed Columns at top

Conjunctions AND = all conditions have to be true OR = only one condition has to be true NONE = none of the conditions are true

AND

OR

NONE

Compound Conditions Switch conjunction Parenthetical grouping – a and (b or c)

SELECT/RETURNING Same as SELECT…SAVING UNIQUE… Return distinct list of values from selected records Used to get @ID’s “Unique-ify” detailed lists

SELECT/RETURNING PERSON @ID … ORDERS @ID PERSON.NO …

List Algebra Set Operations using multiple SELECT/RETURNING conditions Conjunction determines operator List A List B

List Algebra - Intersect Use AND conjunction Values that only exist in both lists This Year Last Year

List Algebra - Union Use OR conjunction Combines Lists This Year Last Year

List Algebra - Difference Use AND with NONE Compound Condition Values that exist in one list but not the other This Year Last Year

Multivalues Field containing multiple values Limiter: Any, Every, No, When

Limiters: Any Any of the values match the condition INTEREST HEA WWW MED PARA MRNI

Limiters: Every Every value must match the condition INTEREST HEA WWW MED PARA MRNI

Limiters: No None of the values match the condition INTEREST HEA WWW PARA MRNI

Associated Multi-Values Two or more related multivalue fields Ex: Status and Status Date Use WHEN delimiter for each condition

Associated Multivalues

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