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Status Submitted
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Components Data Access and Modelling
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 25, 2025

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Data Modules Complex Join Editor

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Within Data Modules - when do you decide to give the user an editor rather than a very basic user interface?
For example, you can enter a calculation with a simple creator OR AN EDITOR allowing you to build complex calculations.
You can create a filter using a column, OR AN EDITOR to build very complex filters.
You can use create a query using numerous simple interfaces, such as a union creator, or view creator OR AN EDITOR to type in SQL to create complex query subjects.

And yet you can only create joins using very basic operations - there is NO EDITOR on the join defintion! Without a join editor we cannot replicate some of our FM models within data modules (for example we have joins that look like FACT.CALENDAR_KEY in (CALENDAR.MONTH_KEY, CALENDAR.YEAR_KEY).

It should be a standard that whenever you have a basic interface to create something, there should be an editor for advanced users to create more complex stuff. Like you have for filters, calculations, sql...

Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)

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