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Select rows greater than

Looking to select all rows for processing greater than set amount in one of the varibles. Tried Filter, but no luck?Database is is 24 hours, just want times greater than 1600?

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Input/Output in Tools Properties missing

Just upgraded to latest version (10.5.9) and it seems the input/output display of fields/data type in the tool properties is missing.  Is there a way to enable them?   I'm referring to the "Input...

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Output csv file split into 2 files suddenly, how to output only 1 file?

My workflow has been outputting single CSV file (400k rows), after I added an extra output to include Alteryx Database as additional output, suddenly all my output files split into 2 files, including...

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RegEx question: match all strings containing range of characters

I've used trial and error on this and even RTFM, but I can't figure out how to solve this RegEx problem. It seems extremely simple but I've reached the hubris threshold and actually need a solution....

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Exponentiation?

I'm sure there is an easy answer to this, but I can't seem to figure it out. I am using the formula tool and I would like to raise x to the power of y. In most programs this would be written as x^y or...

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Joining numbers with multiple criteria fields

Hi, Im struggling with a problem for which I thought the solution might be quite easy.. However haven't found it, so I'm trying this great medium again.. Situation:I have 2 different data sheets. The...

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Parsing HTML tables

Many thanks to the weekly challenge on this idea.   One of the weekly challenges was to parse html and exract table data which got me thinking to build a generic workflow (and eventually an...

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Need to replace select values in one field with values from another field

I am currently working on a workflow where I am combining data from multiple sources into one Alteryx file. The main issue with this project is that the data I am using is very sparse and somewhat...

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Finding Certain Dates

I have a large data file containing customer numbers, corresponding revenue and date of transactions.  How can I analyze the data to compile the first date of transaction for each customer number?...

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If Contains and Equals Then Statement

So I am horrible with If/Then Statements. I am trying to make a new column (vstring) that flags rows that need to be looked at based on what is in two columns.The Top ZIP Sales ADI column is a vstring...

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Dynamic Append Fields

Hi Everyone,  I am trying to do a dynamic append fields but can't figure out how to do it in Alteryx: The source looks like this: The column field determines in which column the name row belongs to....

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Add column "Perecent of total"

Dear colleagues, Could you please help me with the following (I believe, pretty basic) question. In Alteryx I have a table like this:RegionSalesRegion A50Region B50Region C30Region D70 And I need...

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Execution of multiple run command tools

Hi all, I have created a few macro's which make use of the run command tool to create directories, however when using many of these I begin to get errors saying that the files produced etc. do not...

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Inconsistent Date format (string)

I have a field that contains date values, currently a string field, that has multiple formats that i need to convert to an actual date field.  The current values are "yyyy-mm-dd" and "mm/dd/yyy".  I...

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Something like Excel's "Solver" - to find adjustment coefficient for market...

Dear friends, could you please help me with the following. Let's suppose I have a table with:Total market size by regionsMarket share of our company, that we get from market agency RegionsMarket...

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Filtering multiple workflow queries with single filter

In a single yxmd, I have 15 query workflows fired up creating a tde file. All of them use a unique column called ‘ABO_YEAR_NUM’ (string type of character in the database) which represents year (e.g....

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Using fuzzy match to bring in unique identity numbers from different source

I have two large data sets each with a list of client information with a different set unique identifiers for each file. Some of the client names aren't exact matches which is where I think the fuzzy...

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Tableau TWB Audit Workflow - Sharing and Asking for Input

Hi, I set up a workflow to audit a Tableau .twb file.  I got the idea after reading this post but found that that macro didn't quite get me the output I was looking for.  Being new to XML and RegEx,...

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In-DB Browse tool halting workflow?

First off, sorry if this isn't the correct place to ask this question. I've searched around and couldn't really find a conclusive answer to my problem, so I figured I'd start here. I have a workflow...

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Parsing Comma Separated Values Within in a Single Column Based on a Separate...

Hello all, I've been struggling with parsing some comma seperated values within columns imported to alteryx from a csv. The data pertains to a messaging site my company uses, and we want to know how...

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