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mustafaelryah
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Connect Multiple dates in defferent tables to one master calender

if I have accounting transaction table like
transaction_date, credit ,debit, cost_center, account
The master calendar is connected via transaction_date
now I have sales data (sales_date, item, cost center, amount) and I want to connect sales data to a master calendar and also I want to connect the sales data with a transaction via cost_center
but I can't make it with key (sales_date & Cost center) because sometimes there are sales without a transaction on the same date. So please help me how to connect both to one master calendar without affecting each other.

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rubenmarin

Hi, there are usually two solutions for this:

- Concatenate sales and transaction tables, so you end with only one fact table, wichmakes easier other reltaions with dimesnion tables avoiding circular references.

- Add keys from sales to tansaction table, so transaction has all the needed keys to allow sale to reach the calendar, something like:

// Load all keys loaded in transactions
chkKey:
LOAD distinct Key as chkKey resident Transactions;

// Add keys from Sales not already loaded in transactions
Concatenate (Transactions)
LOAD Key, sales_date, Cost center
Resident Sales
Where not exists('chkKey', Key);

DROP Table chkKey;

 There can be other solutions like a relationship table but I usually use one of the two above.

mustafaelryah
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Ok, I will try

Brett_Bleess
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If Ruben's post did work for you, please be sure to return to your thread and close it out by using the Accept as Solution button on his post to give him credit and let the other Members know that worked.

Here is a Design Blog post that may be helpful too:

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Design-Blog/Canonical-Date/ba-p/1463578

Just in case, here is the base URL for that area in case you wish to search further for other posts there, this area is mostly how-to related posts, so will likely be handy going foward:

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Design-Blog/bg-p/qlik-design-blog

Regards,
Brett

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