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Hi,

I need to grouping result by some attribute,

I tried like on picture below, but without success.

<fetch top="5000" aggregate="true" >
  <entity name="a24_event_journal" >
    <attribute name="a24_journal_type_opt" alias="a24_journal_type_opt" groupby="true" />
    <attribute name="a24_description_txt" alias="a24_description_txt" />
    <link-entity name="campaign" from="campaignid" to="a24_campaign_ref" >
      <attribute name="actualstart" alias="actualstart" />
      <attribute name="actualend" alias="actualend" />
      <attribute name="name" alias="name" />
    </link-entity>
    <link-entity name="account" from="accountid" to="a24_account_ref" alias="account" />
    <link-entity name="contact" from="contactid" to="a24_contact_1_ref" link-type="outer" alias="contact1" />
    <link-entity name="contact" from="contactid" to="a24_contact_2_ref" link-type="outer" alias="contact2" />
    <link-entity name="contact" from="contactid" to="a24_contact_3_ref" link-type="outer" alias="contact3" />
    <link-entity name="task" from="regardingobjectid" to="a24_event_journalid" link-type="outer" alias="task" >
      <attribute name="scheduledend" alias="scheduledend" />
      <attribute name="subject" alias="subject" />
    </link-entity>
  </entity>
</fetch>

Please help me to group by "a24_journal_type_opt" attribute.

Thanks in advance..

Kind regards

Martin

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    David Jennaway Profile Picture
    David Jennaway 14,063 on at
    RE: Fetch xml - Group by

    If you use groupby, every other attribute in the output will need an aggregate function, as the results may need to be evaluated across multiple records. You'll need to decide which aggregate function is appropriate for each attribute. In the example below I've used 'min' for the date fields. For the text fields, I've used countcolumn, as there aren't many other useful aggregate functions for text fields.

    <fetch top="5000" aggregate="true" >
  <entity name="a24_event_journal" >
    <attribute name="a24_journal_type_opt" alias="a24_journal_type_opt" groupby="true" />
    <attribute name="a24_description_txt" alias="a24_description_txt" />
    <link-entity name="campaign" from="campaignid" to="a24_campaign_ref" >
      <attribute name="actualstart" alias="actualstart" aggregate="min"/>
      <attribute name="actualend" alias="actualend" aggregate="min"/>
      <attribute name="name" alias="name" aggregate="countcolumn"/>
    </link-entity>
    <link-entity name="account" from="accountid" to="a24_account_ref" alias="account" />
    <link-entity name="contact" from="contactid" to="a24_contact_1_ref" link-type="outer" alias="contact1" />
    <link-entity name="contact" from="contactid" to="a24_contact_2_ref" link-type="outer" alias="contact2" />
    <link-entity name="contact" from="contactid" to="a24_contact_3_ref" link-type="outer" alias="contact3" />
    <link-entity name="task" from="regardingobjectid" to="a24_event_journalid" link-type="outer" alias="task" >
      <attribute name="scheduledend" alias="scheduledend" aggregate="min" />
      <attribute name="subject" alias="subject" aggregate="countcolumn"  />
    </link-entity>
  </entity>
</fetch>


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