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Sum product

How can i do the product of a vector with variable lengths in alteryx, typically for compounded returns calculations . 

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Chained Alteryx Analytic Applications Concurrency Issue

 Hello everyone. I am strugling with a large conceptual problem in Alteryx that I am hoping the community can help explain better to put my mind at ease :-) Lets say I build a chained application for...

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Have analytic app run different analytic app based upon filter

Hello everyone. Is there a way to set up a chained analytic app so that when the first app is completed, it would run One of Two other analytic apps? So for example: The first app would give the users...

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Converting String to Date - YYYY only

Hi All, As part of my Alteryx workflow I'm trying to convert a field I have "Year" to a date format to be able to use this in Tableau correctly.However, I've tried the following and none of these work....

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Creating a variable in Alteryx

Hi , I have 500000 variables. I need to create a string cloumn with 20 % of 500000 population as 'first time freshman', 60 % of 500000 population as 'first time transfer' and remaining 20 % as 'third...

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Iterative Macro limitation

Hi Community, I am trying to set up an iterative macro from a workflow which I have manually copy and pasted several rounds of the same repeating units: SUMMARIZE - group by to get the total value for...

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formula issue

Hi, I am trying to work out how to solve an issue i have with obtaining the correct whole number based on two fields Example data below Field A     Field B        Result Expecting1...

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Is there any dynamic transform tools in Alteryx

I want to transform the rows into columns.. I am using the cross tab and arrange tools from transform category to get multiple records into one record, but these tools are not dynamic. For example I...

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Normalize vendor/supplier names

I have a list of vendor/supplier names with different variations. For example, I will have 75 records with Amazon Web Services and 25 records with AWS as names for Amazon Web Services. What I want to...

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Creating a new flag from adding prior row value

Hello everyone, first of all,  I apologize if the sentencing of my question is not correct.  I am working on a dataset where I need to create a new flag variable based on the prior row value of the...

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CrossTab Audit Data

Hi, I have an audit table that stores the before and after values as data is changed on the front end. I want to transform the audit data as below...

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using subroutine in alteryx

Hi ,  I am looking to call a alteryx job in another job in alteryx using subroutine. for example I am having alteryx job called first time freshman, which is a massive alteryx data stream. I am looking...

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how to deactivate part of a flow for testing?

Say you have several threads of workflow, you want to test one without the others running.  Is there a way to de-activate, temporaryly, part of a workflow?  How?

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Joining databases

Hello, I just signed up for alteryx and I have a couple questions on my first workflow.I am joining 2 databeses and I need to add a column to identify each database. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks

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MultiField Formula

I have a list of fields and I want to change the information in them. What I am trying to do is  IF [_CurrentField_] = 1 THEN 1ELSEIF [_CurrentField_] = 2 THEN 1.08ELSEIF [_CurrentField_] = 3 THEN...

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Join or Append?

Hello everybody, I am quite new to Alteryx and i have a table which looks like: NAMEAttr1Attr2Attr3Attr4Attr5AafkpuAbglqvBchmrwCdinsxBejoty I want to group the name so that every name is unique and all...

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Data Profiling tool

Has anyone worked with the data profiling tool that is located on the laboratory tab? It produces a field called histogram in the follow format:...

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Combining Text

Hello, I am trying to combine 2 fields with a character in the middle.in excel it would look like.    =A2&" - "&B2How can i do that formula in alteryx? FamilyDescTogetherCheeseDipCheese -...

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Get Email Even if No Records

I'd like to get an email after a join that gives me the record count of un-joined records, but if there aren't any un-joined records, I keep getting an error...Error: Email (7): ComposerEmailInterface:...

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Normalize Job Titles from Contact Database

Hello - has anyone used Alteryx to normalize job titles from a contact or customer database? Or anything similar that could be adapted to use for this use case. Thanks!

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