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  • December 6, 2025
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I have three tables.

One has business information.

One has Employee information.

One has information about the workshops the business have signed up for.

 

I want to create a table that tracks employee attendance for all workshops at all businesses. All employees attend all the workshops the businesses sign up for.

I don’t know how to do this without a left table join. It seems like it should be simple, but it is not.

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TheTimeSavingCo
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Let’s assume your data looks like this:

 

We then have two ways to potentially handle this:

  1. Tracking attendance only
  2. Tracking more granluar data per employee per workshop.  e.g. maybe there are scores or notes you wish to record per attendance

Tracking attendance only

For this we create a new linked field to Employees in the ‘Workshops’ table and populate it to indicate that they’ve attended.  In the gif below, Workshop 1 has full attendance while Workshop 2 had no attendees

You’ll also notice that only the Employees linked to that Business are available for selection, and that’s done via a conditional in the linked field:
 


 

Tracking more granluar data per employee per workshop

For this, we set up a new table called ‘Attendance’ that’s linked to ‘Employees’ and ‘Workshops’ where each record represents the attendance of a single 

 

This then lets us add additional fields to note details per attendance, like so:

And I’ve set it up here for you to check out!