Qualifier Field Not Shown in Qualified Table

Question

Hi All,
Can anybody tell me why the values of qualifier fields are not shown in the qualified tables? And where are those qualifier values stored, in the main table or in the qualified table itself?
Best Regards
Jerome

Answer 1

Hi Jerome,
Before starting, I am assuming there is no confusion relating to Qualifiers & Non-Qualifiers.
Non-Qualifiers --> Decidors/Fields whose value changes
Qualifiers --> Fields which get decided/whose value changes based on the Non-Qualifers.
You said - "<i>Can anybody tell me why the values of qualifier fields are not shown in the qualified tables?</i> "
<b>1. )</b>What I understood from your question is that; when you select your Qualified Table in the Record Mode of the Data Manager, the qualifiers appear to be locked/non-editable. Is that right?
All the qualifiers are locked because <b>they have no context in the Qualified table.</b>
For e.g.: If your Qualified table is "Addresses" consisting of
Non-Qualifiers --> Address Type(say Home(can be more than 1), Office,etc)
Qualifiers --> HouseNo,Street, City, Country,etc.
What would it mean if we put the street name "XYZ Street" for the record selected. Nothing -- the street must be connected to a main table record, a Customer(Cust_Id)  and and an address-type(Home) to have meaning.
<b>2.)</b> If the above interpretation of your Q is not correct, then 2nd case could be --> when you select your main table in DM (Record Mode)and try to add a Qualified Lookup value to a record you are unable to see the qualifiers. Right?
In the main table Double-click on the quailfied lookup field. An screen pops-up. Here we see the available lookup records -- these are in fact the records we saw when we switched to view the Addresses qualified lookup fields, which means these are the values stored in the non-qualifiers. You have to select & add them (Selected Lookup Records). The qualifiers become enabled. Now you an add values to them.
You can either use an existing Address type or add a record to the Qualified-Lookup Table from here.  We can add and remove types of addresses -- a main table record may have any number of any type of address. When we add a type, for example "Favourite Restaurant Address"(say), we can enter information for the qualifiers, those field which make sense only when connected to a main table record and a non-qualifier. If we add two "Home" addresses each can have it's own values for the City, Street, Country, State and Postal Code qualifier fields
To answer 2nd part of your Q - "<i>And where are those qualifier values stored, in the main table or in the qualified table itself?</i>"
Qualifiers are database “subfields” that apply not to the qualified table record by itself, but <b>rather to each association of a qualified table record with a main table record.</b>
Hope this helped your cause. Please mark helpful answers.
Regards,
Siddharth Sharma.