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Upgrade Issue from 10.6 to 11.3

Hi All, We recently upgraded our setup from Alteryx 10.6 to 11.3One of the workflows which runs without any issues in 10.6 started throwing errors in 11.3A very simple workflow to update the Oracle...

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Interface - "Numeric Up Down" icon - Action icon - Getting no results

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Input to Macro

Hi folks, The attached macro is currently parsing data from a filename hard coded into the macro.Could you show me how to pass the filename as input into the macro? I've tried adding a Macro Input...

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IF with a string and empty field

Hello, Basic function but I'm a new user so I'm having a little trouble. I'd like to do an IF function as below with the attached file. IF ([productCode])=([Product Code]) THEN "Perfect" ELSEIF...

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Enter Formula expression from Excel or other source files instead of writing...

Hi All, I'm new to Alteryx and was trying to figure out a way to key in the formula expression from a separate input file like excel rather than writing every time. So my intention is I'll have list of...

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Extracting a number from a sentence

Hi Team, I am looking to extract a number from a string field. Attaching the sample file with the input and desired output. I tried using the Regex function but unable to get around it. Also, tried the...

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Time as a number

Hi, Trying to transform a time figure (hh:mm:ss) into just seconds (So 00:10:00 would be 600 seconds) and can't seem to get a formula to work at all. I'm currently using the text to column function to...

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choosing the largest amount

hi, i am new to Alteryx and i am trying to sort data from pic 1 to pic 2 which means when 1 amount of favourite is higher than the another one and they fall under the same Child, it will considered as...

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Concurrency reader / writer for yxdb file

I know, Alteryx create new yxdb file every time when we rerun workflow, So there is only one writer to same yxdb file.Is it possible that multiple process can read data from same yxdb file if we make...

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How to Handle the Pipe Symbol (|) on Input Files

Hi, I apologize for the simplicity of this question (new user), but would anyone know offhand how I could handle an input file (.csv) that uses pipe symbols to separate columns? For example:...

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Interpolation

I have a dataset with lat/lon information. My problem is that I have multiple duplicate entries and would like to interpolate between them. For instance say I have 1000 unique GPS points, but 10,000...

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Add a column that has date of file creation on each row of data

Hi, Can't seem to crack this. Source data isn't changeable unfortunately so I've got to add a column to the data that says what the date of file creation was, and this needs to be on each row....

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SQL error that I only get in Alteryx

I run this in Teradata and out of Access as a pass through and it works fine.  I try it in Alteryx 11.3 and I get error. Error SQLPrepare: [Teradata][ODBC Teradata Driver][Teradata Database] syntax...

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Dynamically creating formulaic columns

Hello everyone, What I'm trying to create is a workflow that can run quality assurance tests on data. Essentially, I need to see if the data for a specific day has changed more than 10 percent than the...

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Output Tool creates HTML style output in Excel sheet

Hello,I want to use the Output tool to export data in Excel and update different tabs, something that the Render tool isn't ideal for.  However, when I open the created Excel file, it has HTML style...

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Text Parsing - Extracting key text

Hi all,  I was wondering the best way to extract a Station name from a field where station name appears in quite different circumstances in each record. One way that I tried to use the text to columns...

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Regex Parsing Help

Hi, I have a quick question regarding Regex - Parse function.I have a set of data where there's two parts - there's a mixture of numbers and letters before a period for the first part, and the second...

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How to create a new row using data values from previous rows

Please see attached the screenshot - is there a way I could create a new row (not column) and have the value be the addition of the ones from previous rows, e.g. "core" plus "dessert"? 

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Remove characters from a string upto a special character

I have a columns with varying string length like 1) 102_23452) 23_123573) 786_8790 I have to remove all characters up to "_"  and result should look like 1)23452)123573)8790 Help me out in this...

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Importing xls and xlsx with different tab names

Hello Alteryx community, I have a folder of xls and xlsx spreadsheet files, each with different tab names. I am only interested in importing the first tab of the spreadsheet (so perhaps a formula would...

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