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Need to perform join and replace on multiple fields

Hi,  Not sure if there is an elegant solution for this, but here's what I need to be able to do: I have one file with invoices {Invoice} and one file with rates {Rates}. I need to be able to match the...

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Custom filter to only filter if the value begins with '0'

Hi, I think the title speaks for itself and it sounds like a regex formula perhaps?Any explanation of your solution would be great e.g. how regex works that picks up if it begins with 0......

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Batch Macro with Percentile Creating Duplicates

Greetings,I am pulling data from data.medicare.gov at the facility level.  I want to create percentile ranks for each facility by measure.  With the help of a colleague, I created a batch macro that...

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Extracting multiple words from a string into different column

I'm trying to extract Twitter handles from tweets because my data provider unfortunately doesn't separate out retweets and @mentions. I should be able to do this using the tweets themselves since all...

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Select Over Multiple Tables

Hi, I just had a quick question about using Alteryx to do something I can do in Access relatively easy, but I can't find a solution. If I have a list of customers and a list of SKUs and I want to blend...

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Calgary Join vs. Regular Join

I am testing out a Calgary join and am receiving different results from a regular join (pic below).  I would expect the numbers coming out of the joins to be the same (red circles), but they are not....

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Problem with Date Operations - End of Prior Month

I am trying to dynamically set the end of the prior month so I can use this date as a filter. This is the formula that I am using: DateTimeAdd(DateTimeLastOfMonth(),-1,"months"). When I run this now...

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Rounding Problem

I'm having trouble figuring out why my formula is not rounding as intended. I am trying to round the cost rate to 2 places;  then multiply the rounded cost rate times the hours.Seems pretty simple,...

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Append data on a daily basis in columns side by side

This is my first post on this siteI have YTD sales data and I want to track the everyday change of sales, which can be used in future to see the trend. I have consolidated multiple data sources and...

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Need help with data preping an excel spreadsheet

The challenges I'm having with prepping this excel spreadsheet is: I have blank rows and columns I want to get rid ofI have numbers that are stored as text and are negative that I want to be positive...

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Multiplying columns

How do I multiply columns together? Tried this with the Formula tool:Create new Column C [Column C] = [Column A] * [Column B] I get a Parse Error when i try this

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Layout Tool Doesn't Recognize All Inputs?

I'm building an automatic reporting tool to run weekly on my server, but I'm having a hard time actually formatting the report. So far I've only made some text and a table in an attempt to make a...

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Subtotal counting records

I have need to produce column R in a dataset that only has the first 3 columns.  I need a running count of distinct records of studentid, feeid, and transactionid.  The first one is 1, second is 2,...

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Month over Month & year to date

Hello!I'd like to create columns in my spreadsheet that would give me 'month last year', 'month this year'. I have a date column in my data. Tried using formula tool, getting error about not enough...

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Generating a BatchID for all the rows

Hi,     How can i generate a unique BatchID , a alphanumeric value like '0E984725-C51C-4BF4-9960-E1C80E27ABA0'  for all the rows ?      I will be loading daily files into the destination. For each run,...

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Change column width

Hi,  Is there a way to change the column widths? Now I have to manually change it every single time I ran a workflow.   Thanks,John

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Change negative to positive numbers and vice versa

Hi, I have a table below: Profit-100Operating Cost20Taxes20Net Profit -60 I need to change all negative numbers to positive and vice versa.What's the quickest way to do it? I have an odd situation,...

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Error with Support Vector Machine: Error in names(ret2)

Hello, (I posted this on the Analytics feed a couple days ago, but received no responses, so I am hoping this feed will have greater visibility.  I am stuck!) (I am in the deep end of the pool... I...

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Min not zero, source of Min/Max

I was wondering if someone could help me out with doing a MIN across multiple columns, but not coming back with values that are 0.  The other question is that if I use Min/Max how I can determine the...

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How convert Timestamp to Datetime

Hi guys!Does anyone help me by teaching me how to convert a formatted field in timestamp(integer) to datetime?

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