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New to Alteryx - Filtering Issues

I am killing myself over something so simple.  I need to filter for multiple variables from a single field.  I'm Excel minded right now, so I'm just hoping to select the variables I am looking for in a...

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Issue Transposing Data

Hi everyone! I am struggling with a data set that looks like "A" in the attached picture. I want to make it look like "B". My first thought was to transpose the data then use cross tab, but it...

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Finding Missing Output Records

Hello, I am creating a workflow and have a smaller number of output records compared to my inputs when I need them to be the same. Some records appear to have been lost at some point in the workflow...

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Batch macro double outputting

I have a dataset categorized by city. I send this data to a batch macro, with unique city list as the control parameter. The macro should get the data, filter it by the control parameter, do it's...

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Payroll file - Comparative - I´m new here

Hi everyone: I need someone who could help me with a comparative that I want to have with three payroll files (one of them is in .txt format), it has almost the same information in terms of format, but...

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Converting XML to .csv file

I am trying to convert an XML file to .csvI was able to extract the child values and separatethem with commas but the last row has only 2 fields compared to 5 in rest row. Hence the output file gives...

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Removing Excess Comma's in an Concatenated Field

Hello -- I am working on a project and have a challenge that is eluding me. I have concatenated about 7 fields using a comma (,). 1) ,,,,CBC500,,,,CBC501,,2) ,,,,,CBC100,,,,, How do I keep a single...

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Dynamic multi-row formula

Hey all, I'm fairly new to the tool but love it so far.  There's a problem I think I can solve using the multi-row formula tool, but I can't put the last piece together.  I'm looking to transfer stock...

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append tables, get a final sum?

hello: I have data which has categories, "Car", "Utility", "Van/Truck", and then each category has subcategories, "small car", "large car", "Mini Utility", "Minivan", etc..  I wrote a workflow to find...

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Fuzzy Match on Business Names

Hi. I am working with data that is input with no standardization. I have no master list for comparison. The same business contact gets input a multitude of ways. For example: on attorney contacts, I...

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Filtering to previous month

Good Afternoon. I'm trying to create a dynamic filter that will filter the date/time to only the previous month. The data comes in as DateTime. I'm sure this is simple, but I can't seem to come up with...

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Parsing Question on Comment Field

I need to pull specific pieces of information from a comment field when available and I'm having trouble wrapping my brain about the best way to go about it. For example, my field might contain: "1...

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Fuzzy Match in Russian

Hi All, I am working on matching customer names and some are in Russian. I don't believe this counts as a 2 bit character but they are matching at 100% confidence when analyzed and it is giving me lots...

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Field Conversion Error handling Excel Format

 Excel Data should be in the form of $$, but out of 25,000 ish records, I find that I have an excel data format error.   A large number of values 'in excel' for some odd reason were saved as a date...

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Increment row number based on values in another field

I have a data source that has project numbers and then user names associated with those projects. I want to set a number field starting with one for the first project and increment up to 2 when I get...

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SQL Editor help - need to find min & max order date for a customer

Hi all,  I'm happy using SQL editor to select fields & rename etc, but I've never done any SQL coding, so don't know the syntax. I have a database of 15m records of sales data.  But I only need to...

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How do I execute a sql update statement

How do insert sql code in alteryx to run a basic sql update statement in the workflow?update table1set column1 = b.column1,column2 = b.column2from table1 a inner join table2 bon a.column3 = b.column3

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Read EML file

Hi, Can anyone tell me whether I can open an EML-file in an Alteryx flow.And if so, how do I do this? Thanks,Dirk 

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Limiy and sort number of fields.

Hi Everyone, I am new to Alteryx. I want to limit the number of fields(Months) in the output as per an input number.Ex : User enters '3' then only the latest three months should appear in the output...

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InboundNamedPipe::ReadFile: Not enough bytes read. Why?

Hello everyone. I tried to download data from table in Oracle Database server. Alteryx cannot connect to a table. It gives me this error: Error: Designer x64: The Designer x64 reported:...

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