Force one unique record in a qualified table in data manager

Our main table is Customers. We have a qualified table that stores Company Code information. We need to ensure that each customer in the main table has only one record per company code in the Company Code qualifeid table.
Company ABC can be linked to Company Code 1, Company Code 2, Company 3 (three records in the Company Code qualified table)
Company ABC cannot be linked to Company Code 1, Company Code 2, Company 2 (three records in the Company Code qualified table where two are duplicates)
Company code is a the only Non-Qualifer field in the Company Code qualifeid table. I have set field as Unique in the console but i can still add duplicate records

Tammi,
Choosing Qualified table is wise option, when we really want to maintain possible duplicate data!
otherwise Normal Lookup table would be ideal option.
befor we proceed further, cud u pls explain me the unique factor to choose qualified in ur Business requirement?
thanks
Alexander

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How to enforce unique records in a Qualified Table

Our main table is Customers. We have a qualified table that stores Company Code information. We need to ensure that each customer in the main table has only one record per company code in the Company Code qualifeid table.
Company ABC can be linked to Company Code 1, Company Code 2, Company 3 (three records in the Company Code qualified table)
Company ABC cannot be linked to Company Code 1, Company Code 2, Company 2 (three records in the Company Code qualified table where two are duplicates)
Company code is a the only Non-Qualifer field in the Company Code qualifeid table. I have set field a Unique in the console but i can still add duplicate records.

Hi Tammi,
Don't expect to get many answers from this forum, which is Business Process Expert General.
Your question sounds more like an ABAP problem. Actually, it seems to have nothing to do with SAP; it really sounds more like a general programming problem.
You will probably have better luck in one of the ABAP forums, maybe
ABAP Development
Good Luck,
DB49

How to create a unique group field in Qualifier table

Hi,
I am trying to use a qualified table in Product maintable like "Site items".
However I would like to have two non-qual field in that like 'Plant' and 'item#' which should be an unique combination.
I have tried to create a table(X) with the above two fields with display and another table (Y)that uses the table X for lookup (site-item) so as to make it dispaly and unique both. However when i am using this Y table as a lookup for the qualified table(site items) , not able to load data.
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"Import failed. Unable to find source column index for 'Site Item ID' field"
Another issue also not able to populate data for the qualified flds even if when able to load data without making a group unique field for this qualified table.
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Hi Beena,
In the above post of mine I suggested you to use STRING data type.
As you are telling that when creating TABLE MAINTANENCE GENERATOR you are
getting an error saying that " Datatype STRING is not supported ". I tried this, what you said is right.
After your reply I did research on this and I also met my heads,
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Reward all helpful answers.
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Help needed to get unique record from an internal table

Hi Everybody,
I have to get unique record from an internal table. i know we can use read statement with key condition .
But the problem is i have to use some relational operators like GE or LE.
eg
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Issue in Mapping Qualified Table in Import Manager

Hi Experts
I have extracted Customer data from R/3 ECC, I could successfully loaded reference data, but when trying to load Main table data (Using DEBMDM06 MAP) I am getting mapping issues with Qualified table (Sales Data and Bank Details).
Error Messages
Map 'Sales Data' field to import qualifier(s)
Map 'Bank Detals' field to import qualifier(s)
I have checked and found that all the field and value mapping is in place, If i remove mapping for the qualified table fields then the data is ready to import.
What is the issue, and how do I import Qualified Table data.
Appreciate your inputs
Gaurav.

Hi vickey ,
Kindly go through the below link it will help you understand better the mapping the workinga nd importing of Qualified tables:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/00a15239-684e-2b10-b8ae-b936b7d1c1fe
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/c03240fa-cc3e-2b10-aa9a-a5798e319a6e(Qualified importing with main table)
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Extracting unique records from two different tables record

Hello,
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VIDEOLINKS
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Wrote file afiedt.buf
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test
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www.testing.comThanks & best regards

Unfortunatly you didn't mention the expected output. I guess it would be the one line
"www.testing.com"
in that case simply join the two tables.
select *
from saVideos v
join saImages i on i.sa_id = v.sa_id and i.picLinks = v.videoLinks
where v.sa_id=21;If needed then you could change the select list to retrieve only distinct values.
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from saVideos v
join saImages i on i.sa_id = v.sa_id and i.picLinks = v.videoLinks
where v.sa_id=21;I usually avoid distinct/unique whereever possible. This requires the database to do a sort and makes the query slow.
Edited by: Sven W. on Feb 10, 2011 1:55 PM

Creates new record in the Qualifier Table while importing.

Hi Guys,
When sending new bank details to MDM, then MDM creates a new record in the Bank Detail qualified lookup table. This is OK. But when sending exactly same bank details again to MDM, then MDM creates again a new record in the Bank Detail qualified lookup table. I would expect that it
first performs the Automap and only if it cannot find a value, it will add a new record!
Can you guys help me out from this?
Best Regards
Devaraj PK

Hi Devaraj,
Please check these configuration options of Import Manager
1. Default Qualified Update - The default setting for whether incoming source subrecords either are appended to, completely replace,or update the set of existing qualified links of a qualified lookup field when updating existing records.
2. Default Matching Qualifiers - The default setting for which qualifiers to use as matching qualifiers when matching existing qualified links when updating existing records.
Any operation on the qualified tables will depend on the above two options.
Reward if found useful
Regards,
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Not able to Populate Qualified Table in Import Manager

Hi,
I am performing following steps for populating Bank Detail Qualified table in MDM from R3 but not able to populate the data.
1.Populating all lookup tables like Account_no,Bank-Key.......
2.Mapping all fields in Bank detail table except the 'Collect Auth'
field which is Qualifier
3.In Customer table(Main) mapping Collect auth to Bank Detail field and
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-regards,
reo

Reo
Matching will be based on the Display field (at least one) of the Main table. This is for example the Customer Number.
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Mismatching no of records b/w CATSDB table and Data Source 0ca_ts_is_1

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Uniqueness in Qualified tables

Dear MDM experts,
I have this requirement wherein we have a qualified table wherein the user shouldnt enter duplicate entries.
e.g. in the case of customer master data,the user may have only 1 qualified table record per company code. (can have differnt company codes)
I have set Company code as an NON QUALIFIER but it does not enforce any kind of uniqueness.
<h5>Is it possible using qualified tables to have such an enforcement ?
</h5>
Also as an alternate can I write a validation rule such that it will allow me to enter data in the qualified table only once per company code.
Thanks.

yes this will work in the case only, if you have your customer name as a master table field. Try this:
1. Customer Name and qualified are two fields in Main table.
2. In QT you have Comp_Code as unique Field as non qualifier and other data like company_name, Loc as non Qualifier or what ever you want.
then DM allow you to enter same company code for two different records.
now this is also possible that a person may have worked in 2 different organizations then you can put 2 records in QT and you can select them for a single customer.
Rewards if found helpful.
BR,
Alok Sharma

Loading data : Creation of entries in the Qualified Table

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has succesfully achieved the following...
I'm looking at the standard materials repository.
- Main Table : Product
- Qualified Table: Location Data. This qualified table single non-qualifier field is a look-up to a flat look-up table, called Plants
The flat table is populated with the valid list of plants, using the check table synchronisation. The Main Table is empty, so is the Location Table.
In order to load products into this repository using the import manager it seems that it is required to "create" entries in the qualified table (Location), one for each plant-code.
Is this true ? I actually would expect the SAP MDM Import Manager client to be able to create the records in both the main table and if needed, the qualified table. As long as my plant code exists in the "Plants" look-up table, that should be sufficient. It seems not the case..
Thx,
Dirk

The sequence of Import
- Load the Flat Lookup tables. ( in your case Plants)
- Load the Qualified Tables ( in your case load the non qualifiers of the Location Data)
- Load the Main table (in your case Products)
Though MDM allows you to create Lookup values on the fly, I would rather go with this approach.
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Qualified Tables Problem

hi,
    I would like to know if possible to avoid duplicates in a Qualified table. When you create a qualified table you can set several things. firstly you can set if fields inside the qualified table are Non Qualifiers or Qualifiers and furtheremore you can set some field properties like display field...and unique field.
I realized that you can put 2 iqual records inside of a qualified table.
I would like to know how i can make so that there are not duplicate records inside the qualified table.

Hello Jose,
   Here is the example how you can eliminate the duplicates by using a qualified table
first the main table of product records shown in the figure below that contains sparse quantity pricing data for each product.
SKU     Name     1-9     1-24     1-49     10-24     25-49     50-99
113     Widget     $3.51                 $3.48     $3.44     $3.40
114     Wrench           $8.75                 $8.30     $7.99
115     Bearing                 $5.12                 $4.80
Using a qualifier to store the quantity pricing data, the qualified table would have a single field Quantity and a single qualifier Price, and would contain the quantity records shown in the figure below.
Pricing:
Quantity     [Price]
1-9
1-24
1-49
10-24
25-49
50-99
A qualified lookup field in the main table would replace all of the quantity price fields, and the pricing data would be stored as qualifier values associated with main table/qualified table links, as shown in figure below.
SKU     Name     Lookup [Pricing]
113     Widget     1-9; $3.51
          10-24; $3.48
          25-49; $.344
          50-99; $3.40
114     Wrench     1-24; $8.75
          25-49; $8.30
          50-99; $7.99
115     Bearing     1-49; $5.12
     50-99; $4.80
A main table/qualified table link is created only for those product/quantity combinations for which a price value actually exists.
So!, finally we can conculde this as ONLY THING THAT NEEDS TO TAKE CARE IS THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO COMMON DATA INVOVLED IN ANY OF THE COLUMN, IF THERE IS ANY COMMON DATA - THAT NEEDS TO BE CREATED CREATE IT WITH A NEW COLUMN.
Thanks,
Suresh

Expression logic for qualified tables

Hello Experts.
I am searching for an expression that can manage the following requirements:
Different records of a qualified table belong to one record of the main table. One value that belongs to a certain combination in the qualified table should be automatically transferred to a field in the main table. For example there is one main table (MAIN) and a qualified table (QT) with at least two fields.
Main table (MAIN) with some fields
Qualified table (QT) with Field 1 and Field 2
I tried following expression: IF(QT.Field 1 = NAME, QT.Field 2). But the expression doesn'tt work.
How can an expression work with a certain combination of a qualified table? Has anybody an idea how to solve such a mystery?
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Anja

Hi Anita.
I have the answer: You need an additional field in qualified table. This field is filled during import with the concatenation of all field values of the QT record.
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Field 1: Name
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Qualified Tables - Loop with Expression

Hi Experts,
Is there any way to setup a validation to loop over qualified links and check if a specific field has a value (not being NULL)?
For example I have the following qualified links of qualified table Location Data for a Main Table Record (Material), with two fields Plant and Purchasing Group. Plant is Non-Qualifier and Purchasing Group is Qualifier and a lookup field into the table Purchasing Group.
Plant: 3100
Purchasing Group: NULL
Plant: 2100
Purchasing Group: 12
I want to set up a validation to loop over all qualified links and check wether Purchasing Group is set. If one of them is not set I want to display a warning on record save.
Anybody know if this is supported?
Thanks,
Ingo

Hi Ingo,
I am assuming the following requirement:
You want to throw a validation error when your qualifier(Purchasing Group) is NULL.
If this the case then we can have a validation as described below for the qualified link.
Step1. In Data Manager select Main Table as Current table and go to Validations Tab.
Step2. Create a validation expression by Using Function IS_NOT_NULL() and then Go to Fields drop down and select the Qualified Table --> Qualifier (Purchasing Group).
Suppose if your Qualified table is "Test" and Qualifier is "Purchasing Group" then the expression will look like IS_NOT_NULL(Test.Purchasing Group).
The other properties like "Error Message", "Automatic Execution" will vary as per your requirement
Try this out and let me know.
Thanks and Regards,
Sagar Sonje
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