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RajHelaiya
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5 years ago

Adding different rows for table with relationship in an export

Hello, I have a 2 tables- Resources (stores employee name and type)
Project entry- stores the projects that are worked on with date, and work hours field. There is a drop down called Projects, values of which come from a different table. 
You can choose a resource and add project entries for them by selecting projects and adding work hours. There are 8 project entry drop downs. 
When I try to export the Project entry table, it lists all the 8 projects in one single row in excel. I need to have one row for each project. 
For example: If person A does 3 projects in a week, they need to be listed in different rows rather than the same row in the export file. Is there any way to achieve this with formulas or report building?

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Raj Helaiya
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  • Are you saying that on that  entry form, the user can enter up to 8 entries ie 8 pars of project names and hours worked?

     and you need to be able to export that into up to 8 rows?

    Mark

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    • RajHelaiya's avatar
      RajHelaiya
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      Yes, exactly. I am not sure how that would be possible.

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      • MarkShnier__You's avatar
        MarkShnier__You
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        I would make Project Export (scratch) table to hold the normalized results.  By a scratch table i man a temporary table which is just used to collect the export data.

        Then I would make 8 saved table to table imports to export the data from Project Entry. Each would be filtered respectively when Project # X has data.

        Then I would make ​a URL formula button would would do 10 successive steps. 

        Delete all records in the scratch table.
        Run each of the 8 saved table to table imports.
        Land the user on the scratch table.

        If you need help with building that button, I can help you once you do the other setup.  Once you do the setup though, you can run each import once, manually,  and see the result.

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