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I think I've finally got a handle on Joins....
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Process:
- Join data on PN
- Union left and join outputs
- Summary to calculate Total Prior APV (for calculating proportions)
- Sort by PN then by Prior APV (desc) to get order correct for Split field
- Join threads on PN
- Calculate proportion of each supplier against Prior APV
- Generate data for Split field
- Aggregate data and concatenate Split field (group by PN)
- Remove "," and "-" from Split + Ensure Null records as required
- Remove Proportion field
- Join data on PN
- Union left and join outputs
- Summary to calculate Total Prior APV (for calculating proportions)
- Sort by PN then by Prior APV (desc) to get order correct for Split field
- Join threads on PN
- Calculate proportion of each supplier against Prior APV
- Generate data for Split field
- Aggregate data and concatenate Split field (group by PN)
- Remove "," and "-" from Split + Ensure Null records as required
- Remove Proportion field
Fun challenge. This was the first time I had a use for using concatenate within the summary tool.
