RE: using DISCTINCT on a query entity COUNT function

aloks0189 — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:55:50 GMT

erickp DISTINCT statement is used to return only distinct (different) values, we can consider without duplicate rows, so as you have mention above, you have created a view.

When i talk in SQL Query side then, i can find that, you have used DISTINCT but i think it's not in proper structure, you can try as below:

SELECT DISTINCT COUNT(yourColumn) as COUNT_ROWS, A.PRODUCT as product
FROM P360_V_RCT_COUNT A
GROUP BY A.PRODUCT

So here i kept DISTINCT just after the Select, so once this view starts to return the DISTINCT column then we can create a normal queryEntity which can do our Job.

Coming to your requirement:
I think for your requirement View is the right choice instead of doing it through QueryEntity, because i don't think we have any DISTINCT function support in Appian. Because as per the Appian Documentation: aggregationFunction (Text): The function to use when aggregating the field. Valid values include COUNT, SUM, AVG, MIN, and MAX.