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joglidden
Advocate III
9 years ago
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Slicers not working!

I am attempting to get any slicer to work, and neither the built-in slicer will work, nor the heirarchy slicer. I try to use a column from one table to select items from another table and I get nothi...
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    joglidden
    9 years ago

    I think I've figured out the problem: slicers are confused as to which key to follow. One would expect that the slicer would just follow the table relationship, but slicer is apparently overthinking it, ignoring the established table relationship, and looking at other keys, getting confused (because more than one possibility exists), and then just returning a blank. In the other records where there is no possibility of confusion, I am getting records returned from the related table.

     

    Oh well. I'll try something else.

     

joglidden's avatar
joglidden
Advocate III
9 years ago

I think I've figured out the problem: slicers are confused as to which key to follow. One would expect that the slicer would just follow the table relationship, but slicer is apparently overthinking it, ignoring the established table relationship, and looking at other keys, getting confused (because more than one possibility exists), and then just returning a blank. In the other records where there is no possibility of confusion, I am getting records returned from the related table.

 

Oh well. I'll try something else.