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I want to specify which fields to include in my joined table

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Description: What is it?

When I join an explore, I want to be able to specify which fields are available in the joined table in my explore.

E.g. if I join organizations to users, I only want organization_id and organization_name to appear in the joined organizations table in my users explore.

Problem: What problem does this solve?

only some of the columns from my joined table may be relevant to join to my other table.

What: Roughly, what does this look like in the product?

in the YAML file, there’s a way to include-fields or something in the join.

e.g.

models:
- name: my_model
  description: 
  meta:
    joins:
    - join: other_model
      sql_on: ${my_model.id} = ${other_model.id}
      include_fields: ['users', 'user_id', 'test']

By default, include_fields is set to all

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Created a year ago
Comments:8 (2 by maintainers)

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JohnRomanskicommented, May 27, 2022

include_fields should also be able to be set to none [] in the case that you are using a table as a join-through for a many to many relation. (Product A joins ProductCategory B joins Category C.) ProductCategory B values would only be foreign keys to A and C and have no value for the user on the front end at all.

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TuringLovesDeathMetalcommented, Oct 27, 2022

become more blurred

oh boy - soon the modern data stack 🥞 will be the modern data porridge 🥣

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