topic Qualified fields in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Qualified-fields/m-p/381990#M1167589 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Dear all,</P><P>I'm moving my first steps with QLIKVIEw and I'm wondering&nbsp; whether it's better to use qualified fields or not.</P><P></P><P>Does anyone can put me on the right track ?</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance</P><P></P><P><IMG src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/emoticons/confused.png" /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:36:29 GMT Anonymous 2012-08-29T17:36:29Z Qualified fields https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Qualified-fields/m-p/381990#M1167589 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Dear all,</P><P>I'm moving my first steps with QLIKVIEw and I'm wondering&nbsp; whether it's better to use qualified fields or not.</P><P></P><P>Does anyone can put me on the right track ?</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance</P><P></P><P><IMG src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/emoticons/confused.png" /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:36:29 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Qualified-fields/m-p/381990#M1167589 Anonymous 2012-08-29T17:36:29Z Re: Qualified fields https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Qualified-fields/m-p/381991#M1167592 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi, QV automatically creates relations between fields with the same name across the tables in your datamodel. So in many cases you have to use qualified fields (qualify *;) and specifically unqualify the (key) fields you actually want to relate to each other. This to setup your datamodel correctly. Otherwise you'll probably end up having synthetic keys all over the place. Regards, Sander</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:50:10 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Qualified-fields/m-p/381991#M1167592 Anonymous 2012-08-30T08:50:10Z Re: Qualified fields https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Qualified-fields/m-p/381992#M1167594 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks, now it's much clear </P><P></P><P><IMG src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/emoticons/happy.png" /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:33:04 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Qualified-fields/m-p/381992#M1167594 Anonymous 2012-08-30T10:33:04Z