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check1
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2 years ago
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Field from one table not directly related to another table

I have 3 tables - Employee, Tickets, TimeEntry.   Relationships are: Employee to Tickets - One to Many on EmployeeID field Tickets to TimeEntry - One to Many on TicketID The Employee and Ticke...
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    Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Hi check1 ，

     

    Try merging the query twice like this and then combining the text:

     

    let
    Source = Table.NestedJoin(TimeEntry, {"Ticket ID"}, Tickets, {"Ticket ID"}, "Tickets", JoinKind.LeftOuter),
    #"Expanded Tickets" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(Source, "Tickets", {"Employee ID"}, {"Employee ID"}),
    #"Merged Queries" = Table.NestedJoin(#"Expanded Tickets", {"Employee ID"}, Employee, {"Employee ID"}, "Employee", JoinKind.LeftOuter),
    #"Expanded Employee" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Merged Queries", "Employee", {"Employee Name"}, {"Employee Name"}),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Expanded Employee", {"UserID"}, {{"Employee Names", each Text.Combine( List.Distinct([Employee Name]),",")}})
in
    #"Grouped Rows"

     



    Note that the storage mode of the table for the merge query is Import.

     

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check1
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2 years ago

Thanks PwerQueryKees.  Hope this give a little better explanation of what I'm trying to do.  A ticket is assigned to a primary employee.  However, the ticket can have many time entries from many different employees.  I am trying to find the name of those employees for those time entries.  I can show the UserIDs for each time entry, but I'm trying to resolve the name of the employee associated with that UserID, which is the EmployeeName from the Employee table.   If I link the TimeEntry and Employee table (using UserID and EmployeeID) it creates ambiguous paths.  

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PwerQueryKees
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2 years ago

Ok. So the user id is not an employee id. What else have you got to connect a user to an employee? Is there a user table you can use? Is there another filed, like email address you can use?

You mention ambiguous results. What do you mean? Because I would assume it would produce erroneous results or no results at al if you match the user id with employee IDs.

If all of the above does not work, your question might me unsolvable...