Data Manager Assignment Troubleshooting

Question

Hi Experts,
Right now I am creating a few different kinds of assignments, some drawing off of Qualified Tables (in other words, the Table Field has sometimes been a Qualified Table).
Some have told me it is not possible to create an Assignment with a QT as the Table field, but I have been able to do it half the time.
See, when I use my "Sales Data" QT, the assignment runs fine and works perfectly, but when I use my "Company Code" QT, it will NOT work! Even though the expressions and other details are identical to the assignments that do work.
FYI:
In my expressions that don't work, I am drawing off of a lookup table which is inside of the QT
an example expression that DOES work is:
IF (IS_NULL(Sales Data.Individual Limit), Sales Data.Individual Limit = 99999999999999)
Table field: Sales Data
Here is an example of an expression that does NOT work:
IF (IS_NULL(Company Code Data.Reconciliation Account.[Record]), VT_Reconciliation Accounts [Default Account, 224001])
Table field: Company Code Data
I realize the assignments w/ QT's that do work have not drawn off of a lookup table, but other assignments that don't use QT's have and have had no problems...
HELP!
Edited by: Nichole Shantz on Aug 12, 2008 8:27 PM

Answer 1

Hi Nichole,
If you want default values to be filled in the fields dynamically then it is alwsys prefered to use Calulated field instead of Assignements.As Assignemnts will have to be run on the records to populate the field whereas Default values will get populated automatically if used Calculated field.
You can use a similar expression on the field and check again.
In console make the fields type as NUMERIC and the calculated option as yes and then in the expression box write the expression for say FIELD2
IF(IS_NULL(FIELD1),100)
The field on which you are running the (calculation as in this case FIELD2) should be of type numeric otherwise it will not be able to assign the default value 100 to it.
So if your FIELD1 is null then FIELD2 will have the default value
Same will also work for Assignemnts if you wish to use Assignments.
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Thanks & Regards
Simona Pinto