Is there a widget that displays a count of unique values in a given field?

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02-26-2017 02:21 PM
by Anonymous User
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I have a field in a webmap called 'deviceId' that displays a unique string for each device that pushes data into it.

Ideally, I want a widget in an Operations Dashboard that displays a count of the number of unique devices.

I can see how to display a count of features, but can't see how to create a query that filters by unique value.

In a round-a-bout way, a bar graph achieves something similar, by displaying a unique bar for each deviceId with counts of the number of features for that deviceId, but it's not the effect I want. I just need a single count figure.

Any ideas?

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YorladyVela2
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You could start by using the Query widget to help identify any unique devices and then create a counter that takes the query results and displays them according to count per unique device in a summary widget . I hope it works for you.  

MattFlowerday
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Hi there

 

thanks for the reply.

 

Can you elaborate please on how you would create the query?

 

When specifying the query criteria, it allows you to choose a field, an operator and a value. The operators are contains, equal, not equal, is blank and is not blank. None of those seem to allow you to specify unique values and I can't see how you would use any of those to get a count of unique features.

YorladyVela2
New Contributor III

Hi 

My suggestion is the as follows:

First Create a query widget and insert a query by atribute.

 

Then create a resumen widget. In the source dataset shoose the results of the query widget.

When you execute a query, the resume widget shows the count given the query.

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by Anonymous User
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Hi Yorlady

Thanks for replying.

I might not be explaining myself properly though. Take the following sample table data:

 objectid  |  deviceId

1             |   ABCDEFG

2             |   ABCDEFG

3             |   ABCDEFG

4             |   ZYXWVUT

You can see that there are four  records, but three have the same deviceid. I want the summary count to report the count as '2', because there are two unique deviceid's in the table.

I understand the 'summary' (resume in Spanish??   ) widget, but cannot see any way, using the standard query tools that are available, to create a query that returns unique values.

The equivalent SQL query would be something like: 'SELECT DISTINCT deviceId from.....' .

I don't think it can be done using the standard tools, but still hoping someone might suggest a way so we don't have to custom write something...!   

deleted-user--W0njQoLz5cX
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Hi Paul,

Just to check did you find the solution to the above ? I am also stuck on the same issues, and any help from you will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Amit Prakash

by Anonymous User
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No, not out of the box.

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deleted-user--W0njQoLz5cX
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Hi Paul,

Any idea , how can we achieve this by custom ?

Thanks and Regards,

Amit Prakash

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by Anonymous User
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No. I passed it on to a dev team to look into, I don't think they even used Ops Dashboard.

deleted-user--W0njQoLz5cX
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Ok , thanks for the information.

Thanks and Regards,

Amit Prakash

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