Creation of Schema Question

[#1]

Hi All!

Just a question regarding creating the schema in Qlikview. I have this kind of table:

I have a reference table (Product Reference Table) and I need to connect it to the 2 detail tables. The thing is, the reference table is also one of the filters so I did not left join the reference table to the details. How am I going to achieve this? The product reference table consist of the product code and the product description. How am I gonna connect it without having a circular problem on my source.

Thank you in advance.

Donna

[qlikpahadi07]

Hi Donna,

you can simply load the "product reference table" twice by changing its column name or using Qualify statements like

Load*,

...,

[product code] as PCDetail_code1

[roduct description] as PCDetail_description1

and connect it with left side of Detail table.

then load againg the same "product reference table" with

Load*,

...,

[product code] as PCDetail2

[roduct description] as PCDetail_description2

and connect it with left side of Detail table.

i assume "product code" will be the PK in "Detail Table" to connect with "product reference table" so rename

"product code"  to "PCDetail_code1"  and "PCDetail_code2" receptively in there table to connect with  "product reference table"

hope it was helpful

[Colin-Albert]

Can you use concatenate to merge the header tables to a single table with some common fields and then concatenate the detail tables to have a common product key but different measures. This will simplify the associations.

[#4]

Hi,

As what I have said before, the product description will be used as a filter. So, the fields with the 2 different name won't be able to filter it.

[#5]

Hi,

I did concatenate two tables which almost have the same fields. My next problem is, there is another header but the fields are very different from each other.

[Colin-Albert]

When the tables are concatenated there would only be one product description field, so it should not be a problem to filter by the description.

You will need to make sure that you rename the common fields to have the same name when you concatenate the data.