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Text Analysis

Hi all I want to extract out certain information from the body of an email. Text Morning, Please can you Invoice the following days for WE 10 12 17 -  5 Days at a rate of £36 per hour Output I would...

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Convert exponentials values to Numbers in Alphanumeric Field

Hi  All, Can someone help me with converting Exponential values to Numbers? I tried below function. It is Still populating with exponential values.it has values like...

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Parse Error at Char(0):Formula Tried to apply numeric operator to string value

Hi, I am trying to convert a column containing Julian dates to calendar dates using the replace tool.Expression which generates the error:DATETIMEADD(TOSTRING(FLOOR([Ref...

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Spreadsheet Validation Only

I have a process where a spreadsheet must be validated, but the end user doing the validation can not *change* the spreadsheet without permission. It sort of works like this. The user selects a set of...

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Export to Excel as a Shared File?

Is it possible to output -- either through the normal output tool or using the reporting tools as a shared Excel file? I ask because I am updating a file for a team of 10 periodically and they all need...

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Fuzzy match - purge mode

Hello community, I'm struggling with fuzzy matching on company names using purge mode. I have hundreds of thousands of company names that require fuzzy matching and grouping. Since most of the data...

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Bug in the Browse Tool 11.7

Hi Not sure if this is just me, but whenever I use the browse tool in 11.7 and view results in a new window, the results open and then close quickly.  I then have to click on my alteryx icon on the...

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How can I separate name by capital letter?

For example, if there are a bunch of names as following, how can I separate it by the capital letter of the second name? AndrewAton      ->       Andrew Aton   HarryPorter        ->       Harry...

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How to populate List box values ?

I was trying to populate list box based on date selections,  But the list box shows only field name instead of field values.  The highlighted box in the below picture shows only column name in the list...

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Grouping Data with Arbitrary Dates

Hello Alteryx Community! :) I am running into an issue with grouping Active Customers together by arbitrary dates. For example, customers that have Start Dates >= Arbitrary Date1 and customers that...

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Multi Row Formula auto fill blank rows

Want to auto fill blank rows, but only the next two rows following the non-empty row.  How can I modify the current expression   if Isempty([Counter Party ID #]) then [Row-1:Counter Party ID #] else...

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Get a single row to repeat in another column?

Hi, I have thousands of files that I am using a wildcard to bring into Alteryx. However, I would like to take the first 5th column of the 1st row in each of these files and have them repeat in in...

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Output one data into multiple sheets/ Update multiples files

Hello, What would you say is the best way to update a particular sheet from different output (all having the same structure) For example, I would like to output the word "RUN" into the first cell of...

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Parse a string with regex

I'm trying to parse the string below to get just the numbers in green (#s right before the .jpg).  I was able to do it with text to column, but I'd like to use RegEx Unfortuately, i was getting...

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Use join? Need to pull a value from within my dataset

I have a dataset where each line has a user with a 'UserID' and each user has a manager with a 'ManagerID'. Each user also has an email address, but no manager email address. I want to use the...

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Excel Overwrite issues

Hello, I am reading a specific worksheet in an Excel file and I apply some formulas to remove some newline feeds and I am overwriting the entire sheet with the updated content. Both my input and output...

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Create column using field name from another column

I have one column of data - the column name identifies the month/year the data corresponds to.  How do I create another column with one unique value, being the field name of the first column? 

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Multiple Data Files > In a Tabbed Excel File, Multiple Reports, Append Data...

Hi Alteryx users, I have a feeling there's a simple way to work with this problem that I just am not seeing. I work with projects where we supply two parameter files to vendors, and they execute a...

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Filter date range

Hi all, I am currently doing out a macro where user can filter between start date and end date. However, when I put the macro in the main flow, it is not updating the dates at all. Will like you guys...

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An unhandled Exception Occurred

Hi,  I get the following message as I try to run the workflows :An unhandled Exception Occurred.A previous action may not have completed successfully.Click OK to send the development team the error log...

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