I am working on a report in which the tables are relational and I would like to have 2 slicers on the same report. I have 4 queries that contain different infromation each of which have a Month and CustomerID field. I have created 2 tables, 1 has the 12 months of the year (MONTHS) and the other has a cross reference of CustomerID to CustomerName (CUSTOMER). I am able to create relationships from the MONTH table to the 4 tables joining the Month fields together. However when I try to join the CUSTOMER table to the 4 tables on the CustomerID field, I am only able to have 1 active with the other 3 inactive. I get the error message "You can't create a direct active relationship between TABLE2 and CUSTOMER because that would introduce ambiguity between tables MONTHS and CUSTOMER. I have put some fake data below to outline the structure a bit.
TABLE1- Transaction Information (10 columns), Month, CustomerID (Multiple records per CustomerID)
TABLE2- Transaction Information (15 columns), Month, CustomerID (Multiple records per CustomerID)
TABLE3- Transaction Information (12 columns), Month, CustomerID (Multiple records per CustomerID)
TABLE4- Transaction Information (8 columns), Month, CustomerID (Multiple records per CustomerID)
MONTH- Month
CUSTOMER- CustomerID, CustomerName
I would like a user to select a Month then select a CustomerName and have select fields from each of the 4 tables returned returned based on those critera. Currently the values from each table return properly when a month is selected (all active relationship), however when a CustomerName is selected I can only have 1 active relationship.
I have tried several different methodlogies, however none have worked! Any assistance would be creatly appreciated.