Hi Alteryx users, I have a feeling there's a simple way to work with this problem that I just am not seeing.
I work with projects where we supply two parameter files to vendors, and they execute a project based on those parameters. They give back one data file.
I've been building a macro that takes the three files together and does a QA analysis to verify how well the returned data matches the parameters. There are multiple types of QA review, so for any given project I could potentially generate up to 10 slices of data to assess which records are non-compliant.
I currently have all 10 analyses being performed on the files, and using the technique described here I can create an output file with up to 10 tabs depending on which analyses produce failing results. So far, so good.
However I'd like to append the original data the vendor provided. When I tried passing it through the Render tool as another table to the Union tool, the workflow slowed down due to the Render of the original data. A relatively small file took 4 minutes, which I realize isn't a long period of time. However, the analysis itself only takes <30 seconds.
Ideally I could just output the data I've input to a new tab in the same Excel file that's output by the Render tool. But timing is of course an issue here. The Block Until Done tool appears to be the right solution, and I've used it before when I wanted to take one input stream and do two sequential things to it. However, this is two separate input streams and I can't figure out how to tell the Output to wait until the Render is done.
Any suggestions?
Edit: Once done, I'd also like to Email the completed report. Render seems to be the final step in a workflow, though, so it's not clear how to use the Email tool here.