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1. In the repository browser, expand the list of Datasources.
2. Drag the datasource called Rating and Billing into your model.
3. In your model, hover your mouse pointer over Rating and Billing and click 

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   . PhixFlow displays a list of the tables available in this database. You can resize the list to make it easier to browse.
4. Right-click on SOURCE_PACKAGE_CHANNELS and select 

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   . PhixFlow adds a new database collector  to the model, and gives it the same name as the source data table, SOURCE_PACKAGE_CHANNELS. In the settings → Basic Settings section → Statement Expression, you can see the database query is: 
     select * from SOURCE_PACKAGE_CHANNELS.
5. Hover your mouse pointer over the new database collector, and click 

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   Check icon??. PhixFlow adds a new stream to your model and also gives it the name SOURCE_PACKAGE_CHANNELS. In the settings → Attributes section, you can see that data has two attributes (columns): Package and Channel.

6. To load the data into the stream, run analysis on this section of the model and check the data has loaded.

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   Hover your mouse pointer over the SOURCE_PACKAGE_CHANNELS stream , click  Insert excerpt _run_analysis _run_analysis nopanel true  then click YES to confirm. When PhixFlow notifies you that the analysis is finished, hover your mouse pointer over the stream again. Click  Insert excerpt _show_stream_views _show_stream_views nopanel true . In the drop-down list, select  Insert excerpt _default_view _default_view nopanel true .  PhixFlow displays the data.

   Snapshot of your model and the data you have loaded:

   

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1. Hover your mouse pointer over the Latest Package Update stream and click 

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    (check icon)??.
2. In Basic Settings, set the Name to Latest Package All Channels.

3. Drag all the attributes from Latest Package Update to the settings for Latest Package All Channels.

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   Hover your mouse pointer over the stream Latest Package Update. In the context toolbar, click  Insert excerpt _stream_attributes _stream_attributes nopanel true . Phixflow lists the data attributes (column titles) for this stream. Select all the attributes and drag them into the Latest Package All Channels settings → Attributes section.

   
   

4. Click 

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    to save the change your changes and close the stream settings and close .
5. Close the attributes list.Add

Look up 

supplement the Latest Package All Channels stream with additional data from the database, using a lookup pipe

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1. In the model, add a pipe from SOURCE_PACKAGE_CHANNELS into  to Latest Package All Channels
2. Call the pipe chan
3. Go to the . PhixFlow opens the settings for the new pipe.
4. In  Basic Settings section, set:
   • Name: chan
   • Type: Look-up
5. In the Order/Index section, click Update the
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   Drag PACKAGE from the left hand (input) list
   Drag Package from the right hand (output) list over the top of the Order/Index attribute PACKAGE
   Double click on the Order/Index attribute PACKAGE to edit its details:

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   . PhixFlow opens the list of attributes available from the input stream, in this case PACKAGE and CHANNEL.
6. Drag PACKAGE into the Order/Index section, then double-click the the new line created. PhixFlow opens the settings for the attribute. Set:
   •  Basic Settings → Index Expression from _out.Package to: in.Package
   Save your changes
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     Technical issue: I'm not seeing _out.Package here.
   • Click 

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      to save and close the attribute settings.
7. Close the attribute list.
8. In the pipe settings, click 

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    to save your changes and close the settings.

This means that the lookup will match records in the reference data (SOURCE_PACKAGE_CHANNELS) where PACKAGE = Package from the input pipe in
We must do this, rather than using the value of Package from the output because we are using the lookup to drive an output multiplier – and output multipliers are calculated before the output is generated

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