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Anonymous
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Summed values from different tables?

Hi everybody.

 

I have a pretty basic question that I can't find the answer for. I have 2 tables. Let's just say the layout is the following:

table 1- Item, Nickname

table 2- Item, Condition, Quantity

 

What I want is to show Nickname and Condition by Quantity. I'm not sure how to get to this point in Desktop. If I had Nickname in table 2 I could do it by dragging and dropping, but that isn't the case.


Any help would be appreciated.

 

Edit: This would be a drill-down column. I don't know if that makes a difference.

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Greg_Deckler
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Do you have a relationship between Table 1 and Table 2 based on "Item" columns? If so, you can essentially treat them as one big table (more or less)



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Anonymous
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Yes, I do have a relationship between them. How would I treat them as a table? And would this support the drill down feature?

 

So for example let's say table 2 now has "Manufacturer" added to it. Could I drill down to Manufacturer, then Nickname/Condition?

Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous,

 

If the tables contain the relation, you can directly drag the columns which you need to a table visual to display them.

 

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Anonymous
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I'll keep trying to play around with this until I get it to work.

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