Conditional Lookups

Hello.
I'm writing a mapping to load a fact table, but am having some difficulty. My staging table contains data that indicates whether an entity is a customer or a vendor (entity number, entity type). I need to retrieve information from a customer dimension if the entity is a customer and a vendor dimension if the entity is a vendor.
For example, if entity #1 has type C, then lookup in the customer dimension. If entity #2 has type V, then lookup in the vendor dimension.
Can anyone provide guidance on how I'm might accomplish this? I know I could write a transformation to do this, but am looking to see if it can be done with other operators...maybe a filter/key lookup combo, or with a case statement somehow?
Thanks and Happy New Year!
Dan

You mentioned "maybe a filter/key lookup combo, or with a case statement somehow". Don't see why not with either of these.
You could certainly use a filter to branch into two different paths, or an expression operator with two separate case statements branching into two different paths again. Performance will depend to a large degree on correct indexing.
If you choose to do a lookup, one thing I experienced with our installation when doing lookups on strings is that they have to be the same length. This is probably a bug specific to our release and patch levels.
Thanks.

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Conditional Lookups in MDM?

I'm an MDM newbie, just learning my way around, trying to figure out how I will be able to make MDM work with the data landscape we have around here.
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Say I have product records, and the values possible for a particular field on each record should be limited depending on product-type.
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Hello Steve,
As per your requirement, you can use the Qualified look up table.
I hope this will fullfil your requirement.
Just refer this thread related to Qualified lookup table for extracting the record from it.
Re: Accessing Non Qualifier Lookup flat field of an Qualified LookUp table
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How to get all Conditions in Advanced Search

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What is the item type for which you get only the two conditions.
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I have an EJB (Stateless session) that needs to call three other EJBs to perform some actions.
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Why can't u incorporate the 3 other actions in the same EJB. What holds U ?
And If it is very much required, Then go ahead Have the other 3 Actions to return boolean.
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Since return type is boolean,
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Even tho u can invoke 2 Bean ( B & C) simultaneously, the control will go the first ( B or C) and then ithe control will follow down.
Its always better to have check for the boolean value and then decide,
Solution Ok ,
Kindly Let Me Know.

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Hi Tom,
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Regards,
Ian.

Lookup conditions in DB lookup Expression

Hi,
Please let me know how to define lookUp conditions in DB lookup Expression.
I'm working on Netweaver ABAP stack 7.0
Thank you,
Anjani.
Edited by: Anjani P on Dec 27, 2009 3:13 PM

Hello Anjani,
I assume you are using NetWeaver 7.00 not Netweaver7.01. In Netweaver7.00 BRFplus has no UI available so you have to work with the APIs only. In IF_FDT_DB_LOOKUP interface there is a method SET_FIELD_CONDITIONS which has a field condition table as its input. You may set the lookup condions using this method.
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Lookup Conditions

Hello.
I have a business requirement where I need to do currency conversions in ETL. We are a global organization. I'm working with two tables. One contains general ledger journal entry line data. This data has amounts recorded in one of 50+ local currencies. I have a second table that contains all historical currency conversion rates to be used to convert any local currency to one of three base currencies. The results should then be loaded into a fact table.
For example, Table A has a journal entry line recorded in Yen. I need to use the currency conversion rate table, Table B, to convert that to US Dollars, Danish Kroner, and Indian Rupee. Those three conversions are each then a column in my fact table. The journal entry has an effective date which represents the date the entry was posted and therefore the date to be used for currency conversion. Furthermore, each row in the currency conversion table has a start and end date that indicates the time period that the currency conversion was valid. These start and end dates are not necessarily the same, so I need to lookup the conversion based on the following:
Table_A.Local_Currency_Type = Table_B.Local_Currency_Type
and
Table_A.Effective_Date >= Table_B.Start_Date
and
Table_A.Effective Date <= Table_B.End_Date
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I'm using OWB 10.2.0.2.8 and see that I can't edit the lookup condition in the mapping editor.
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Thanks for your time.

Hi, Scott.
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Losing Lookup Condition after import

For transferring a project from development to test (and later production) we're using metadata export/import.
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And, of course, is there a cure?
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Warehouse Builder 9.0.3.37.0
Repository 9.0.3.0.1
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We resolved this issue.
The problem occurs when table names are long. The original table names was 27 characters long. In a mapping we have 3 lookups all based on the same table.
We lost the lookup condition in 2 cases, that is project export/import (from Development to Test) and copy mapping.
We solved the problem by shortening the table name.
Peter

Lookup multiple conditions

I have been browsing around for a bit and still can't seem to find an answer. I am trying to lookup a using two conditions if possible.
In the example below I am trying to lookup column C in table 1 from table two to provides results shown below. Any thoughts?
Table 1
A B C
PHL 6/1/10 25
NYC 7/1/10 35
Table 2
Date PHL NYC
6/1/10 25
7/1/10 35

jkohler wrote:
I have been browsing around for a bit and still can't seem to find an answer. I am trying to lookup a using two conditions if possible.
In the example below I am trying to lookup column C in table 1 from table two to provides results shown below. Any thoughts?
Table 1
A B C
PHL____6/1/10__25
NYC____7/1/10__35
Table 2
Date________PHL___ NYC
6/1/10____25
7/1/10_____________35
Hi J,
Parsing on the forum removes extra spaces (and other non-visible characters), making it difficult to show a table. I've used underscores to push data over to the 'column' you want it in. (The column labels, A, B and C are separated with sticky spaces—option-space to do the same thing.)
LOOKUP doesn't seem necessary here. Enter the Date, PHL and NYC labels into the header row on Table 2, then these formulas in Table 2.
A2: =Table 1::B
B2: =IF(Table 1::$A=B$1,Table 1::$C,"") (Click Accept, then drag the small round handle at the lower right of cell B2 to the right to fill the formula into cells to the right. The resulting formula in C2 will be the one below.
C2: =IF(Table 1::$A=C$1,Table 1::$C,"")
Select cells A2:C2 and drag the handle down to fill all rows on Table 2.
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Regards,
Barry

Comparing lookup columns in conditional formatting

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First part of clause is in the main table; second part is the lookup
This is the clause in question clause:
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This might be because the Lookup is actually returning the index value rather than the actual value that displays. You may have to take the Index value from the lookup and use that to get the value from the original list.
Andy Wessendorf SharePoint Developer II | Rackspace [email protected]

List of Like condition from one Lookup table.

Hi,
I have 2 tables.
SourceData table and LookUp table .
SourceData table has one column called SName
SName
Jayesh Krishnan
Karthik Kumar
Liju Sharma
Kumar Jayesh
Kumar Pradeep
Lookup table has one column called LName(Lookup table is the one which is required to look up with "like" condition)
LNamne
Kumar%
%Krishnan
I need to query SourceDate table with the like condition mentioned in lookup table.
So my result based on above two tables should look like
Jayesh Krishnan
Kumar Jayesh
Kumar Pradeep
Please help me in this regard.

Try this,
create table sourcetable (SName varchar(200))
insert into sourcetable values('Jayesh Krishnan')
insert into sourcetable values('Karthik Kumar')
insert into sourcetable values('Liju Sharma')
insert into sourcetable values('Kumar Jayesh')
insert into sourcetable values('Kumar Pradeep')
create table lookuptable (LName varchar(200))
insert into lookuptable values('Kumar%')
insert into lookuptable values('%Krishnan')
go
declare @sql nvarchar(max)
declare @temp table ([where] nvarchar(max))
declare @where nvarchar(max)
set @sql = 'SELECT Substring(COLS,4, LEN(COLS)) FROM (
SELECT Stuff((SELECT '' OR SName like '''''' + LName + ''''''''
FROM lookuptable
FOR xml path('''')), 1, 1, '''') COLS
) X'
insert into @temp exec sp_executesql @sql
select @where = [where] from @temp
set @sql = 'SELECT * FROM sourcetable WHERE ' + @where
exec sp_executesql @sql
go
drop table sourcetable
drop table lookuptable
Regards, RSingh

LookUp to the same table with multiple conditions

Hi,
I nead to do a lookup to the same table in the flow but with diffrent quieres, each query contains it's own 'where'.
Can I do it somehow in one look up or do I have to use a few ?
select a from table where a=1
select b from table where c=3
Thanks

Hi,
Using multiple lookups will be a cleaner approach. If you are using multiple lookups on the same table consider using Cache transform. Refer the below link for details on Cache transform
Lookup and Cache Transforms in SQL Server Integration Services
Alternatively if you want to go ahead with single look up , you may have to modify the SQL statement in the Lookup accordingly to return the proper value. In you case it may be
select a,b from table where a=1 or c=3
Note : Consider the above as a pseudo code. This needs to be tested and applied based on your requirement.
Best Regards Sorna

Why is the LookUp object in the Flow Task of my SSIS package going red (and not working) ? Sql Server 2008 R2

I have been working with the Sql Server 2008 R2 SSIS Tutorial at
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170419(v=sql.105).aspx
--specifically -- Lesson 1. I have been having some problems with this lesson where the source data from the samples download doesn’t exactly match the data described in the tutorial, and the tables in the tutorial are different from what
is contained in AdventureWorksDW (tutorial refers to DimTime – AdventureWorksDW contains DimDate and no DimTime).
So, after futzing in BI with this tutorial so that I can at least get it to run in Debug – it errors out on the 2nd LookUp object.
Rather than looking for a fix to the problem(s) that I am having between the tutorial and the stuff I downloaded in the samples --
I want “Adapt” the tutorial so I can use the stuff I downloaded and hopefully learn how to use SSIS with the elements (source data and tables) that are present on my workstation.
Here is a description of what is going on for me – which I really don’t understand what is going on in BI – based on the images below – like what columns (from what tables) are they associating to in the OleDB Destination?
Note: the sql in the LookUps here is the sql that I copied from the tutorial.
I probably need to modify these sql statements – so -- the help I am requesting is to make the required modifications/changes
so that I can adapt this tutorial with the stuff that’s on my workstation.
I downloaded the samples and the AdventureWorksDW mdf for Sql Server 2008 R2.
It turns out that in the tutorial it wants me to select a DimTime table, but the version of the AdventureWorksDW db does not contain a DimTime table.
Instead, it contains a DimDate table. So I tried adapting DimDate for the tutorial.
Additionally, the sample data file -- SampleCurrencyData.txt -- has slightly different data types than the types described in the tutorial, so I selected data types for the columns in the datasource text file that would work in BI would to
connect column from source data file to the table.
After finishing all the steps for Lesson 1 -- when I tried debugging the package – and it error'd out on the 2nd Lookup object whichwent red.
 I edited the lookups and the sample Ole DB Destination to "ignore on fail” and I did all
green but the FactCurrencyRate table is not being populated -- as described in the tutorial, so I reset the on error back to default (Fail on error option). And based on this tutorial -- I believe FactCurrencyRate
table is the table which is supposed to be populated with the data from SampleCurrencyData.txt?
In the sample data file that downloaded with all the samples I removed all the data from the text file except for 6 rows, so instead of the original 1100 or so rows, I have only 6 rows of data in the source data file (just to keep things
simple for debugging for now). I did not modify the data itself.
Here is what the (raw) data contained in SampleCurrencyData.txt looks like (from the samples that I downloaded from codeplex) – it’s supposed to be 4 columns of data – float, nvarchar, datetime, float:
0.281690141 USD
6/26/2004 0:00 0.281713948
0.281690141 USD
6/27/2004 0:00 0.281642539
0.281690141 USD
6/28/2004 0:00 0.281761573
0.283286119 USD
6/29/2004 0:00 0.283221933
0.283286119 USD
6/30/2004 0:00 0.283358363
0.281690141 USD
7/1/2004 0:00 0.281682206
Below are images of my BI Layout for Lesson 1 from this tutorial -- the FlatFile and configurations for On Fail Error, A Flow task, the 2 LookUps (CurrencyKey and DataKey), the OleDB Destination configuration, the Design view of the associated tables and
the Debug Run of Lesson 1, and the following error messages. My goal is to figure out what is going on in BI for this tutorial.
Error: 0xC020901E at Extract Sample Currency Data, Lookup Datakey [51]: Row yielded no match during lookup.
Error: 0xC0209029 at Extract Sample Currency Data, Lookup Datakey [51]: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_INDUCEDTRANSFORMFAILUREONERROR.
The "component "Lookup Datakey" (51)" failed because error code 0xC020901E occurred, and the error row disposition on "output "Lookup Match Output" (53)" specifies failure on error. An error occurred on the specified
object of the specified component. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure.
Error: 0xC0047022 at Extract Sample Currency Data, SSIS.Pipeline: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PROCESSINPUTFAILED.
The ProcessInput method on component "Lookup Datakey" (51) failed with error code 0xC0209029 while processing input "Lookup Input" (52). The identified component returned an error from the ProcessInput method. The error is specific
to the component, but the error is fatal and will cause the Data Flow task to stop running.
There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure.
--this is the flat file
-- SampleCurrencyData.txt (which only contains 6 data rows for my purposes)
--and here is where I assign the data types for the colums of -- SampleCurrencyData.txt
This is the first LookUp Object -- LookUp Currency Key – The DB contains DimCurrency table.
I copied the sql from the tutorial here.
I actually have a DimCurrency table in my copy of AdventureWorksDW.
Here’s the design view of DimCurrency and a sample of the data contained in DimCurrency and the On Fail configuration
I actually have a DimCurrency table in my copy of AdventureWorksDW.
Here’s the design view of DimCurrency and a sample of the data contained in DimCurrency and the On Fail configuration
--Here is what the data looks like in the DimCurrency table
--2nd LookUp object -- LookUp Data Key – this is the LookUp
where BI errors out on Debug
--it appears this lookup is referencing the DimDate table – which I DO have in the DB.
--I can’t find the following sql in the tutorial, so I suppose BI added the sql (did it?)
--Here's how I configured for On Error
--Here is DimDate table in Design view
--Here is a sample of the original data contained in DimData
OleDB Destination
--Here is where I get lost a bit – what is going on in the destination here?
--Here's my On Error configuraino
--and here is the FactCurrencyRate table
--and here is a sample of the data contained in FactCurrencyRate
Rich P

Thank you for your reply. I changed the error handling as you suggested on the 2nd lookup to redirect to unmatched rows. Now I get all greet. I don't have the conditional split as in your diagram. But also, nothing appears to have
happened in the DB. Aren't the rows in my text file supposed to be added to the FactCurrencyRate table?
How do I get a conditional split?
Rich P
OK, sorry I forgot to reply you back.
Conditional Split was just dummy task. Ignore it.
Manipulate the data in such way that you get matching records.
Inside Source, for first 2 rows I put the dates which are available in DimDate.
1.00010001,ARS,7/1/2005 0:00,0.99960016
1.00010001,ARS,2/5/2006 0:00,1.001001001
1.00020004,ARS,9/5/2001 0:00,0.99990001
1.00020004,ARS,9/6/2001 0:00,1.00040016
1.00050025,ARS,9/7/2001 0:00,0.99990001
1.00050025,ARS,9/8/2001 0:00,1.001001001
Then in OLE DB Destination, I loaded the rows to TestFactTable.
(Now, you don't even need NO MATCH OUTPUT as there are matching records here)
Cheers,
Vaibhav Chaudhari
[MCTS],
[MCP]

[Forum FAQ] SharePoint 2013: Extracting values from a multi-value enabled lookup column and merge values to a multi-value enabled column

For some business requirements, users want to extract values from a multi-value enabled lookup column
and add items to another list based on each separate value. In contrast, others want to find duplicate values in the list and merge associated values to a multi-value enabled column and then
add items to another list based on the merged value. All of these can be achieved using SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow.
How to extract values from a multi-value enabled lookup column and add items to another list based
on each separate value using SharePoint Designer 2013.
Important actions: Loop Shape; Utility Actions
Three scenarios
Things to note
Steps to create Workflow
How to merge values to a multi-value enabled column and add item to another list based on the
merged value using SharePoint Designer 2013.
Important actions: Call HTTP Web Service; Build Dictionary
Things to note
Steps to create Workflow
How to
extract values from a multi-value enabled lookup column and
add items to another list based on each separate value using SharePoint Designer 2013.
For example, they have three lists as below. They want to
extract values from the Destinations column
in Lookup2 and add items to Lookup3 based on each country and set Title to current item: ID.
Lookup1:
Title (Single line of text)
Lookup2:
Title (Single line of text), Destinations (Lookup; Get information from: Lookup1 in Title column).\
Lookup3:
Title (Single line of text), Country (Single line of text).
Important action
1. Loop Shape: SharePoint Designer 2013 support two types of loops: loop n times and loop with condition.
Loops must also conform to the following rules:
Loops must be within a stage, and stages cannot be within a loop.
Steps may be within a loop.
Loops may have only one entry and one exit point.
2. Utility Actions: It contains many actions, such as ‘Extract Substring from Index of String’ and ‘Find substring in String’.
Three scenarios
We need to loop through the string returned from the look up column and look for commas. There are three
scenarios:
1. No comma but string is non-empty so there is only one country.
2. At least one comma so there is at least two or more countries to loop.
3. In the loop we have consumed all the commas so we have found the last country.
Things to note
There are two things to note:
1. "Find string in string (output to Variable:index)" will return -1 if doesn't find
the searched for string.
2. In the opening statement "Set Variable: Countries to Current Item:Destinations" set the return
field as "Lookup Values, Comma Delimited".
Steps to create Workflow
Create a custom list named Lookup1.
Create a custom list named Lookup2, add column: Destinations (Lookup; Get information from: Lookup1 in Title column).
Create a custom list named Lookup3, add column: Country (Single line of text).
Create a workflow associated to Lookup2.
Add conditions and actions:
Start the workflow automatically when an item is created.
Add item to Lookup2, then workflow will be started automatically and create multiple items to lookup3.
See the below in workflow History List:
How to merge values to a multi-value enabled column and add item to another list based on the
merged value using SharePoint Designer 2013
For example, they have three lists as below. They want to find duplicate values in the Title column in
Lookup3 and merge country column to a multi-value enabled column and then add item to lookup2 and set the Title to Current Item: Title.
Lookup1:
Title (Single line of text)
Lookup3:
Title (Single line of text), Country (Single line of text).
Lookup2:
Title (Single line of text), Test (Single line of text).
Important actions
"Call HTTP Web Service"
action: In SharePoint 2013 workflows, we can call a web service using a new action introduced in SharePoint 2013 named Call HTTP Web Service. This action
is flexible and allows you to make simple calls to a web service easily, or, if needed, you can create more complex calls using HTTP verbs as well as allowing you to add HTTP headers.
“Build Dictionary"
action:
The Dictionary variable type is a new variable type in the SharePoint 2013 Workflow.
The following are the three actions specifically designed for the Dictionary variable type: Build Dictionary, Count Items in a Dictionary and Get an Item from a Dictionary.
The "Call HTTP Web Service" workflow action would be useless without the new "Dictionary" workflow action.
Things to note
The
HTTP URI is set to https://sitename/_api/web/lists/GetByTitle('listname')/items?$orderby=Id%20desc and the HTTP method is set to “GET”. Then the list will be sort by Id in descending order.
Use Get
d/results(0)/Id form
Variable: ResponseContent (Output to
Variable: maxid) to get the Max ID.
Use Set
Variable: minid to Current List:ID to get the Min ID.
Use Copy from
Variable: destianation , starting at
1 (Output to
Variable: destianation) to remove the space.
Steps to create Workflow
Create a custom list named Lookup1.
Create a custom list named Lookup2, add column: Test (Single line of text).
Create a custom list named Lookup3, add column: Country (Single line of text).
Create a workflow associated to Lookup3.
Add a new "Build Dictionary" action
to define the http request header:
Add a Call HTTP Web Serviceaction, click on
this and paste your http request.
To associate the
RequestHeader variable, select the Call action property,
set the
RequestHeaders property to
RequestHeader:
In the Call action, click on
response and associate the response to a new
variable: ResponseContent (of type Dictionary).
After the Call action add Get item from Dictionary action to get the Max ID.
Add Set Workflow Variable action to get the Min ID.
Add Loop Shape (Loop with Condition) to get all the duplicate titles and integrate them to a string.
Create item in Lookup2.
The final Stage should look like this:
Start the workflow automatically when an item is created.
Add item to Lookup3, then workflow will be started automatically and create item to lookup2.
See the below in workflow History List:
References
SharePoint Designer 2013 - Extracting values from a multi-value enabled lookup column into a dictionary as separate items:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/97d34468-1b53-4741-88b0-958472f8ca9a/sharepoint-designer-2013-extracting-values-from-a-multivalue-enabled-lookup-column-into-a
Workflow actions quick reference (SharePoint 2013 Workflow platform):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj164026.aspx
Understanding Dictionary actions in SharePoint Designer 2013:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj554504.aspx
Working with Web Services in SharePoint 2013 Workflows using SharePoint Designer 2013:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn567558.aspx
Calling the SharePoint 2013 Rest API from a SharePoint Designer Workflow:
http://sergeluca.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/calling-the-sharepoint-2013-rest-api-from-a-sharepoint-designer-workflow/

GREAT info, but it may be helpful to note that when replacing a portion of the variable "Countries" with a whitespace character, you may cause the workflow to fail in a few specific cases (certain lookup fields will not accept this and will automatically
cancel). I only found this out when recreating your workflow on a similar, but much more complex list set.
To resolve this issue, I used another utility action (Extract Substring from Index of List) to clear out the whitespace. I configured it as "Copy from
Variable: Countries, starting at
1 (Output to Variable: Countries), which takes care of this issue in those few cases.
Otherwise, WOW! AWESOME JOB! Thanks! :)

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