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Despite the different naming conventions, harmonization is possible using patterns in the Harmonization Center. By extracting the 'Market' and 'Objective' components from the naming conventions of each platform, three separate patterns would be created to map these common fields consistently across the data from Facebook Ads, Twitter Ads, and Google Ads.

In Marketing Cloud Intelligence, when linking two data streams, the parent data stream (File A) provides the main structure. Since 'Override Media Buy Hierarchies' is checked for File A, the hierarchies from File B will be aligned with File A. Given 'Data Updates Permissions' set for file B as 'Update Attributes and Hierarchy', this means that attributes and hierarchy will be updated in the parent file based on the child file (File B), but the child file’s metrics won’t be associated with the parent file’s date.

Hence, when filtering on the entire date range (1-30/8), the resulting view will align with the structure of the parent data stream, showing the KPIs (‘Tasks Completed’ from File A and ‘Tasks Assigned’ from File B) alongside the employee names and squads from the respective files. Since the employee IDs align, the data can be linked properly. However, since the dates do not align (File A data is from 01/08/2019 and File B from 15/08/2019), only attributes from File B will be updated without date association.

The result will look like Option C, where the employee names are corrected based on File B's data, the squads are added from File B, and the tasks_completed and tasks_assigned are displayed from their respective files. The tasks_assigned from File B are shown without date association as File B's date doesn't match with File A's.