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Run rules on a 2nd File to then use as a Lookup

Hi All Just started using Alteryx, enjoying it! I have created my first workflow that takes my data and enriches it in many ways. I have a 2nd file that I wish to use as a lookup and pull fields into...

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Unexpected error with In-DB commands

Hi I am using the Alteryx In-DB commands to read in and then output data from an SQL server. My module has been working fine for the past three months (with Alteryx 9.5, 10.1 and now 10.5). It was...

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Extract Emil Attachment

Hi, I am just wondering if it possible that I can extract email attachment as the input of the workflow.For example, I can create an email account 'receive@gmail.com' to accept files.Then set a...

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Parse Attributes with Proper Output Using Commas and 'And'

Using the table below my goal is to have a properly formatted string I can use for reporting purposes. I would filter based on whether the column attributes included "Improve" and concatenate them....

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Removing characters based on FIND

Hi,Can anyone tell me what the Alteryx formula equivalent should be for this excel statement?=LEFT(J3,(FIND(":L",J3,1))-1) The "J3" cell in this case is a column called "Ad Name" and we are trying to...

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Help with standardizing variations of values

I frequently get lab test results in many different formats. I want to create a macro to standardize all the different variations and thought fuzzy matching would be the best approach. But I'm having...

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IsNumber does not seem to work in Alteryx 10.5

Just wondering if someone else could test this as it doesn't appear to be working for me in 10.5? It used to work for Strings (when a integer was formatted as a string) but now it only appears to work...

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Effective Date Filtering

I am trying to filter a database by most recent date in an effective date field, but I want the most recent date BY employee. Here is an example of what the database looks like (with the blue-font rows...

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Update multiple in-DB filter

Good day, I have large time series data kept in different databases. To form a single all-in-one table I filter each in-db workflow to the smallest dataset possible before Data Stream Out and join...

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Lognormal Distribution Cumulative Function

Hi everyone, I'm a new user of Alteryx and come across a challenge that I don't know how to realize a function the same as EXCEL LOGNORMDIST(x, mean, standard_dev). I'm wondering if there is any macro...

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Cartesian Product with a calculated field

Hello folks New to alteryx so please bear with my noob skills. I'm trying to replicate a cartesian product we perform in MS Access at the moment, wherein we create a field that is calculated for every...

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Dynamic Input Tool Skipping Duplicate Queries

I'm using the dynamic input tool and everything seems to be working correctly, however, it appears that the dynamic input tool is optimized for speed and skips duplicate queries.  Is there a way to...

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Update a row with a preceeding value for multiple values

As per the attached image.  I have 2 data sources I am trying to blend One source contains telematic vehicle data containing registration/event datetime/ event and where it has intersected a geofence I...

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Grouping by rows

Hi All, Have a question I have data like the below, the purpose of this report is to find the most popular products betwee multiple retaielr RETAILER PRODUCT NAMERetailer 1      PRODUCT 1Retailer 1...

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Same parameter to multiple SQL Statements (without lots of Action tools)

Hi everyone, I'm trying to use the same control parameter to update several SQL Statements.For example, I have a parameter_value parameter and a lot of In-Db and Output tools that have queries such...

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DD-MMM-YYYY date not being accepted by Alteryx

Hi All I have a Date field in my data that is in the format  of DD-MMM-YYYY, when I run my workflow Alteryx Designer is not recognising it as a Date. I have looked at the Date Parse Function, but I...

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Pivoting the data

Hi, I've a dataset that looks like this(demo only, I've more columns in it)TitleMrMrsNameJohnAliceSurnameAdamsAdamsAddress3z4zPhone123456What I want to do is to pivot the data in a way that my new...

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REGEX PARSE FILE PATH

I'm trying to parse the part of a file path that comes after the last backward slash. So for example, C:\1\2\3\4 would return "4".  I found an expression on RegexPal that worked there, but not in...

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Cross reference based on multiple columns

Hi,  As in the example below, I have table 1 with ID numbers of visitors and the pattern of stores they visited and table 2 with the distance between every combination of stores. Table...

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DateTimeParse: numeric variable switched type: what does it mean?

I have a file with a number of columns, all imported into Alteryx as numbers, that look like 20160215.I have set up this multi-field formula to convert them into...

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