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Finding a match between 2 unrelated tables

‎05-01-2019 06:14 AM

Hi All,

 

Running into a few road blocks here. Normally I'm a lookupvalue pro, but for some reason I am struggling.

 

I have two unrelated tables: Hires and Terms

 

On the hires table I want to create a lookup logic/measure to see if the new hire also shows up on the term table because they could have been a "no start" and if so, return a value of "Termed", otherwise "Active".  The reason why I need this is we only pull hires once a week and terms daily (I know, stupid) and we want to get a hold on who already termed. 

 

Sample data:

 

Active Table 

EE IDNameTitle
1234Claus, StantaCheery Man
2345Snowman, FrostyWintery Dude

 

Term Table

EE IDNameTitleTerm Date
1234Claus, StantaCheery Man12/26/2018
4564Hog, GroundWinter Screwup2/3/2019

 

End Result (Would want to show on Active table)

EE IDNameTitleStatus
1234Claus, StantaCheery ManTermed
2345Snowman, FrostyWintery DudeActive

 

Many thanks!!

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‎05-01-2019 06:16 AM

@Anonymous you can use lookupvalue function to see if value exists in term table or not and based on that you can create status column



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‎05-01-2019 06:16 AM

@Anonymous you can use lookupvalue function to see if value exists in term table or not and based on that you can create status column



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‎05-01-2019 07:58 AM

@parry2k That's what I was trying to do, but could not get anything to work properly because the tables are not related and cannot be related.

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‎05-01-2019 08:28 AM

@Anonymous lookupvalue function doesn't need related table, it can work without related tables.



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‎05-01-2019 12:23 PM

I figured it out. It was a punctuation problem. Oops.

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‎05-01-2019 12:48 PM

@Anonymous great so you used lookupvalue function, correct?



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