Hello, I have created two tables: Rolling Calendar and Student Detail Table, where both share a many to one relationship on a date field. My Student Detail Table is a merge table created from two other tables: Student and Department.
Side note: I merged both of these tables as Merge New using Left Outer as the join operation. Also, a special thing to note, as to why create a rolling calendar when a date is found in the merge table, is the rolling calendar was something I was attempting for the first time and exploring customization options for quarters or grouping dates together.
Now, I noticed that when I made the connection between the Rolling Calendar to the Student Detail Table by date that the hierarchy would moved from the Student Detail Table to the Rolling Calendar (the date in the Student Detail Table would remain as a single date value). This created (Blank) throughout my visuals of my report and would map elements found in my datatable which I later determined had a date value (meaning the date value was not NULL or (Blank)). Removing the relationship in the data model, allowed the date default hierarchy on my merged table to appear again. Using this hierarchy produced no (Blank) groupings.
My question: What made the (Blank) value appear when the relationship between the Rolling Calendar and Student Detail Table connected? How can I better fix that issue in that relationship? Thank you anyone for any clarification and help. I appreciate it!
