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I thought I had Left Outer Joins figured out....

Last post 10-09-2009 11:14 AM by Bryce Katzman. 3 replies.
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  • 10-08-2009 10:30 AM

    I thought I had Left Outer Joins figured out....

    Here is the situation:

    I have exported the following tables from RE:

    CnBio   CnGf_1         CnGf_1_Attr_Cat1  CnGf_1_Attr_Cat2

    Joe       20                              4                        1

    Steve    10                              1                        5

    Kate     30                              6                         3

    The sitatuon is that Joe only bought 4 adult tickets (did not have data in CnGf_1_Attr_Cat2), so Crystal XI pulled Steve's adult ticket purchase (CnGf_1_Attr_Cat1) into the "child ticket" field (CnGf_1_Attr_Cat2) 

    I have played around with several join options, but can't get it to look like it should which is:

    CnBio   CnGf_1         CnGf_1_Attr_Cat1  CnGf_1_Attr_Cat2

    Joe       20                              4                        

    Steve    10                              1                        1

    Kate     30                              6                        

    Thanks for your help. I need to find a good/affordable on-line training for stuff like this. Any suggestions?

     Bryce                    

  • 10-08-2009 11:05 AM In reply to

    • Patrick Manning
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    Re: I thought I had Left Outer Joins figured out....

    Bryce, if the gift attibute categories are named differently (for example, Child Tickets and Adult Tickets) and the gift attribute descriptions are the numbers, then you should export each gift attribute seperately.  However, if they are both under the same gift attribute category - my first question would be: how do you know which one is the Child Ticket and which one is the Adult Ticket?

    If the gift attribute category is the same, but the gift attribute description has multiple table entries, then you should upgrade to the latest version of Raisers Edge (if you have not done so already).  One of the new features of RE 7.91 is the ability to specify which gift attribute description (as long as it is a table) you want to export.

    In Raisers Edge, how are you exporting the data? Export type, fields, export format, etc.

  • 10-09-2009 11:01 AM In reply to

    Re: I thought I had Left Outer Joins figured out....

    Patrick,

    Thanks so much for looking into this for me.

     I am exporting a gift attribute, the descriptions are different Ticket (adult) Ticket (children) and are not in a table. I know which is which by the order that they are exported. We are updated to the newest version of RE (but of course it is not a table).

    I am doing a a constituent export to mdb the fields are:

    CnBio_Last_Name CnBio_First_Name CnGf_1_01_Amount CnGf_1_01_Balance CnGf_1_01_Note_1_01_Actual_Notes CnGf_1_01_AttrCat_1_01_Description CnGf_1_01_AttrCat_2_01_Description

  • 10-09-2009 11:14 AM In reply to

    Re: I thought I had Left Outer Joins figured out....

    Sorry I realized that you could'nt see all the fields

    CnBio_Last_Name
    CnBio_First_Name
    CnGf_1_01_Amount
    CnGf_1_01_Balance
    CnGf_1_01_Note_1_01_Actual_Notes
    CnGf_1_01_AttrCat_1_01_Description
    CnGf_1_01_AttrCat_2_01_Description

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