Qualified field merge

Question

Hello,
This is the scenario.
We have phones qualified table where we have phone type as Non qualifier which can have values Work or phone and we have phone number as qualifier.All records have Phone type=Work but only few records have Phone type =Work as well as Phone type=FAX (multivalued qualified).
now at the time of syndication client need output format as flat file and they dont need 2 records with different phone types.i.e when you syndicate qualified data it becomes cartesian product that is if record 1 has Phone type as Work and Fax ,2 records will be syndicated
Record 1, phone type=Work ,Phone number= xxx
Record 1 ,phone type=FAX,Phone Number=YYY.
but we want that it should only go as
Record 1 ,phone Type=Work,Phone Number=XXX,Phone Type=Fax,Phone Number=YYY
Is it possible?
Thanks
Bindi

Answer 1

Hi Bindi,
If its Flat File then unfortunately that is not possible.
U will get separate record for each record in Qualified Table.
If ur output structure is XML then u can get something like this depending on ur XSD:
<Product>
<Record>1</Record>
<Phones>
<Phone Type> Work</Phone Type>
<Phone Number> XXX</Phone Number>
</Phones>
<Phones>
<Phone Type> Fax </Phone Type>
<Phone Number> YYY</Phone Number>
</Phones>
</Products>
Thanks,
Maheshwari
Edited by: Maheshwari Morbale on Jan 8, 2009 8:01 AM