Forum Discussion
Cannot create relationship between two columns.
Hm, that's a bit strange.
Then trim and clean the column (s in both tables) as well - before removing duplicates. You find these commands under the lowercase.
Yep, Both Text.
The query editor is case sensitive while the data model isn't.
So in order to be on the safe side here, I'd recommend to:
1) tranform both key column to lowercase (or uppercase)
2) then remove dups again
Hm, that's a bit strange.
Then trim and clean the column (s in both tables) as well - before removing duplicates. You find these commands under the lowercase.
That's good!
So what happened here is that your unique values-to-be haven't been unique, but contained either blanks (trim) or non-printable characters (clean).
So you've lost some rows in your lookup-table here and might have to check if this causes problems now. What remove duplicates does is to keep the first row it finds.
Okay, great,
Is there a quck way of doing that? There is over 1600 values.
Sure, that's what the query-editor is meant for:. Check the column, and then:
1) lowercase
2) remove dups
Thank you ImkeF,
Compleated that, converted everything to Uppercase in both tables and removed duplicated in Column 1 in Excel 2 'RULE_NAME', still no luck in getting them to connect.
Would it matter if a value in Column 1 is also in Column 2 of Excel 2? Not all the rules have a translation, so the rule is just repeated in the translation column. If I remove them might that help?
Trim and Clean worked!
Thank you so much, this has been driving me demented for weeks!
Now to just get it to pull the english value and I'm all set!
Thank you ImkeF!