I’m having trouble connecting my data fields so that I can reference other tables within my data structure. There are a lot of helpful threads about how to design your data structure but I cannot find anything to assist in actually putting it together, and navigating constant csv validation issues.
I have 3 interconnected data types at this stage: country, region, and regulator.
- each region references their parent country (one-to-one)
- regulators reference both the country(s) and region(s) in which they operate (2 sets of one-to-one / one-to-many foreign keys on the table)
I exported all of my regions and countries in order to get their unique_ids (as I believe that is how I must reference them - attempting to match other values did not work). I then did a bunch of work to match them into arrays that could be uploaded as lists. However when I go to modify the regulator data using csv upload the validation tool tells me that from row one, the value (unique_id) cannot be found for country. Here is a screenshot of a section of my spreadsheet. Row one has only a single country value, and it is exactly as in the DB. As you can see above, I did manage to upload and link the regions to their countries.
Here are my error messages:
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Chris
*After posting, i tried to do an upload instead of a modification - ignoring the regulator unique_id and planning to delete the old rows after the upload if it worked. It did not. validation was ok and then it failed:
