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Create a month field

Hi All, I'm rather new to Alteryx, and I've been addicted to training videos to the point things are starting to get blurry.  :) I've done a count distinct on a field and I want to be able to group...

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Count distinct clients each from from January...

 If I have a total of 400 unique clients in January and it grows to 800 unique clients in October, how can I get a count of how many distinct clients were added for each month? Ex.Jan - 400Feb - 43Mar...

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How to rearrange a table?

Hi community, I have a table with this structure:DateShopQty_Prod_AQty_Prod_BQty_Prod_CSep 2016W291185Sep 2016X772156Sep 2016Y584327Sep 2016Z864027Oct 2016W549971Oct 2016X229932Oct 2016Y352137Oct...

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Fixing Data Type

Hi everyone, I'm using Alteryx version 11.0.6.2897 in my company. It is my second week working with Alteryx so excuse me if I missed any obvious solution to my problem. I receive 4 kind of input excel...

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Join with dissimilar key (company name)

Trying to join data where the key is the company name - both are coming from different data sources, so no clean spelling of company name.  Love to apply a fuzzy match on company name during the join...

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Columns to Rows

Hi All, What's the best way to convert the data in the image below to Rows? 

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Malformed IF statement with concatenant

Hi, I'm pretty brand new to Alteryx (2 days) so I'm going to ask a simple question. As a business, we're moving the script from QlikView to Alteryx so it's like trying to learn a new language and I'm...

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Output to multiple Excel sheets AND dynamic file name

Hi, I've searched around the forum but can't seem to find a solution to this. I am outputting my results to an Excel file then adding two non related worksheets to the workbooks final output by...

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Filter By a Looked Up Value

Hi Friends. I want to use Alteryx to filter by a value that I am looking up from another file. For example, I am looking up Company's A ID by the name and I got the ID.  Then I want to filter the file...

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Insert into and select from Oracle database

I need to insert a excel data into Oracle database Table. In first table i need to insert Excel file name , Inserted Date and ID column.In second Table i need to insert Excel Raw data and ID column...

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How to transfer .xlsx files from SFTP

Hi All, Can someone provide a solution on get (.xlsx) file from Sftp server to local using Alteryx. I have already tried using download tool but getting below error. but I was able to connect SFTP...

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Using variables in workflow

Is it possible in Alteryx to define some variables, allocate them value on run time and use them during the course of workflow. Like I have a situation in which I need to use a calculation (number of...

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Automatically change output column headers based on month

I have looked at many topics, but cannot find what I am looking for.  I want to change the header in the output to the current month automatically. I was *hoping* there would be a way to say...

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Find a Value in a Column (Update a table)

Hello everyone,I am currently working on a master table that I need to update monthly based on if there is some specific new information received. I receive a table every month, with the content being...

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Date Time Diff Calculation Not Working

Hi - I've used the following formula to calculate the processing time in days: DateTimeDiff([Requisition Approved Date],[Requisition Creation Date],"days") Before this, I've use the date parse function...

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Join on All Matching Fields

Hello! I am trying to create an automated process based on dynamic inputs. Hoping someone can help.  Basically I need to take a data set and assign each row a 'SegmentNumber'. This number is dependent...

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Need to Create a New Column based on Data in Excel File

I wrote a workflow that mass-loads 800 files with the same data schema into an access database. The flow works great, but I need to add one piece of data to my output. In all off my 800 xlsx input...

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Fuzzy Match Against a Lookup - Help

Hi, I am looking to use Fuzzy Match on a lookup Field.   For example, I have a column with RAW ID codes which I need to map to a master Lookup and create a new column. Eg : Is it possible to fuzzy...

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Extract Partial File Name

Can Alteryx extract part of a file name and append it as a new column? I am trying to mass load 800 files, but need to extract the date that is part of each file name. To complicate matters, not all...

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ftp from mainframe without use of batch

using windows to a mainframe, it's a simple ftp: ftp bobusernamepasswd asciiget `mainframefile` daily.txt but i can't figure out, without the use of a batch file, to set the type=ascii, in the download...

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