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converting fiscal calendar to regular calendar year

My company uses fiscal calendar for accounting, so the 1st month of is always February,  and it ends with next year's January. For example, we are in 2017 December, but for a Fiscal calendar, we call...

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Data profiling discrepancy

 Sometimes the left hand side profile graphs regarding the data you analyze show wrongdata category on the histogram when you hover your mouse on the graph! Mouse on this instance is on "CEK" with a...

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Expression for ID Using MultiRow Formula

Hey Guys, I need some help to figure out an epression that I should use at multirow formula to get result below Input:ValueABCDEF Output:Value   IDA          1B          1C          2D          2E...

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Expression for ID Using MultiRow Formula

Hey Guys, I need some help to figure out an epression that I should use at multirow formula to get result below Input:ValueABCDEF  Output:ValueIDA1B1C2D2E3F3

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Change in Data compared to previous month

Hi, I have the attached excel file which holds property rent charged data every month. I'm trying to compare the change in data between each month to find out: 1) No of new properties in the month2) No...

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Remove certain special characters

Hi There, I am looking to remove 2 special characters which are " & ' I have used the data cleansing tool to remove punctuation, however, it removes a few characters that I require. I have Current...

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Performing Calculation Across Rows Conditionally

I have a table with 3 fields, one of which is an ID that the data is grouped by.  What I want to do is use the other fields to perform a calculation based on their values. So the fields I have are ID,...

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Newbie question about the Tile Tool and the Smart Tile Feature

Hi, I am a new user to Alteryx and really amazed with all that it can do. I was looking at the Tile tool and its Smart Tile functionality. It does what I want... almost perfectly. Sometimes it splits...

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Filter using wildcard "%"

Hi i'm trying to use Alteryx to only keep rows where a string field starts with a particular sequence such as the following: XYZ1XYZ2XYZ3 etc. But i do not want it to keep rows where the string field...

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Select records inbetween

Hello, I would like to know if there is an easy way to select records between a certain data For exemple I have a table that looks a bit like this : F8F9Family StatusSingle  Prorata1 Jan...

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Regex Help

Hello, Two questions.  First, does anyone have a good online(free) regex tool to parse words out?  I have tried regexr.com and it's not user friendly to regex-rookies like myself.  Second, could anyone...

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Redacting UK Postcodes within a free text field

Hi,We have a data feed which contains a free text field which members of the public can type comments into. The feed contains thousands of records.  We need to remove any personally identifiable...

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Apologies- One more REGEX help

 Hello, I had a key change in my r code and now my regex is not working.  I'm trying to parse out the below bold/italic text.  The bold/italic will always change (in case of the knots, it could be more...

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How do I RENDER multiple formatted tables into 1 Excel file and Label the Tabs

I cannot figure out how to export multiple tables into 1 Excel file using the RENDER tool.  I have formatted all of my tables and was advised that because I am using the TABLES, I must RENDER my data...

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Date Tool No Calendar Required

Hi All, There have been many questions in the community regarding dates, counting the number of days between two specific dates, determining if this is week 1 or week 5 in a given month, if this is the...

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Excel Consolidation App issues while simple workflow is working fine

Hey Guys, I am working on a simple data consolidation app by combining multiple excel sheets ( Located at different directories) to consolidate data.I am updating the Input Data tool via file browse...

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IF Statement - Strange Output

Hi, I have a workflow used for financial budget analysis of a mining company over a period of 12 years. I'm trying to produce a summary sheet which contains both physical and financial variables. I'm...

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Converting strings to numbers when minus signs are on the right

I have a text file of invoiced and paid amounts that I'm manipulating and converting to an Excel file using Alteryx (which I'm new at).  I'm having issues converting some of the fields from strings to...

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Help with running one row at a time through a group of mulit-row formula

HiI am trying to run a dataset through a group of multi-row formula that I have built but I am having difficulties trying to run one row at a time through the formula. Basically the idea is to run one...

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Using 'IN' within a Contains function?

I'll start off by saying I LOVE that Alteryx allows for the use of IN within tools like the Filter! HOWEVER, I am trying to evaluate if a dataset of large string fields contains 8 Ids and I'd rather...

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