Today marks my first blogging of “Best Of QlikCommunity” (BOQC) where I plan to highlight what I find to be particularly useful or interesting posts on the QlikCommunity Forums.

There are cases when the ApplyMap() function is a very useful alternative to Join. For some time I have noticed both Oleg Troyansky and Michael Nordstrom dropping this hint on QlikCommunity but I never quite understood the power of the technique until a post Oleg made today:
http://community.qlikview.com/forums/p/16017/62222.aspx#62222

The original forum question was how to multiply two fields from different tables to derive a new calculated field. The tables share a common key field.

I usually would have approached this with two Joins. That approach works, but sometimes I don’t really want my data model to reflect Joined tables. I just want to do the calculation.

If you want to see the ApplyMap() solution, read the post linked to above. The thread explains it better than me repeating it here.