Associate table multiple times to another table

[#1]

Hi,

New to ClikView so sorry if this question is answered multiple places elsewhere! I've looked through the reference and developer guide and don't see a clear answer to this:

I have a customer table: Has a customer ID field.

I have a second table with sales transactional data that has 3 references back to the customer table: customer that ordered, customer that was charged, and customer that product was shipped to.

As I understand it I make associations between the tables by naming fields identically. So my question is do I:

A. Load the Customer table 3 times and each time rename the customer ID field?

B. Load the Customer table 1 time with the Customer ID field listed 3 times with different names ([Customer ID] AS [Ship Cust ID], [Customer ID] AS [Charge Cust ID], [Customer ID] as [Order Cust ID])

C. Some other advanced feature I haven't yet discovered?

I'm guessing option B but was wondering if anyone else had any thoughts on this?

Thanks!

Neil

[whiteline]

I depends on your goals.

Since you have common list of customers for all transactions it seems that your 'Ship', 'Charge', 'Order' analytics belongs to transactional essense.

I think you can Load your Customer table one time with [Customer ID].

Then you can transform your transactional data so that they use only [Customer ID] as reference.

Finally, to keep your 'Ship', 'Charge', 'Order' analytics create separate field fo that in transactional data.

[hic]

You should load the customer table three times using different field names. See more on my blog:

http://community.qlik.com/blogs/qlikviewdesignblog/2012/08/30/master-table-with-multiple-roles

HIC