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Hi,
I have been able to create a canonical date as per discussion here (Canonical Date)
But this is about setting up a canonical date for only ONE table with all the date fields in the SAME table. What if I have date fields scattered across multiple tables. How do I create a canonical date field for that?
Thanks
I think the general approach is the same (creating for each needed date-field an own calendar which then will be merged into the canonical-calendar) but it might be more difficult to find respectively (re-) create a working key-field for it (you might need several additionally steps to adjust and fill up the right/missing values).
- Marcus
do I create the working key field?
. For example, I have 3 date fields, 2 in one table and 3rd in 2nd table.
The two tables are (1) Associate with fields Associate, AssociateBirthDateTime, AssociateReadDateTime
and (2) Analyst with AnalystBirthDateTime
The AnalystBirthDateTime is the one I am unable to put in the same CanonicalDate with the other two date fields.
How do I join all three to create a canonical date? I am able to do the dates in the same table (ie AssociateBirthDateTime and AssociateReadDateTime), but fail with combining the third one. When I am trying to add the 3rd one, it will give a circular reference error because it is based on a different field. I have commented out the part which gives error.
This is my script:
Associate2AssociateBirthDate:
Mapping Load Associate,AssociateBirthDateTime Resident [Associate];
Associate2AssociateReadTime:
Mapping Load Associate,AssociateReadDateTime Resident [Associate];
Analyst2AnalystBirthDate:
Mapping Load Analyst,AnalystBirthDateTime Resident [Analyst];
DateBridge:
Load Associate,ApplyMap('Associate2AssociateBirthDate',Associate,null()) as CanonicalDate
Resident [Associate];
Load Associate,ApplyMap('Associate2AssociateReadTime',Associate,null()) as CanonicalDate
Resident [Associate];
// Load Analyst,ApplyMap('Analyst2AnalystBirthDate',Analyst,null()) as CanonicalDate
// Resident [Associate];
All three dates must be connected with the same key - this meant in all you need Associate or Analyst as single key respectively you need to create a new key-field from/with them and this could be quite difficult or even impossible if your tables didn't contain the right data respectively the data-quality isn't good enough.
- Marcus
I like this post!
Can I create a new birdge table with the following fields?
NOTE: I'm very new, just trying to learn because I have a similar situation.
I think an autogenerated ID with recno() or rowno() will be rather not helpful but an autonumber() on a (composite) key might work but like above mentioned it will be depend on the associations and the data-quality of your tables if it worked to chain the events.
- Marcus