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Fuzzy Match matchscore

Hi, I used fuzzy match quite a lot recently, but there is one question that makes me confused.When I output the results, there are two matchscores (MatchScore, MatchScore_Data), I want to ask what are...

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String character function for data quality testing

Doing a data quality test, a lot of rules such as minimum 2 alpha/numeric characters or 3 or more consecutive letters are not allowed. Any String functions available for those testings?

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Equivalent of 'Not In' in Alteryx

Hi, doing a trial of Alteryx at the moment and trying to migrate an SQL script to Alteryx.  The existing script starts by creating a table of data.  It then creates a 2nd table, but only for records...

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After adding Block Until Done tool, Workflow Fails

Hi Friends, I have 4 workflows streams embedded inside a Single Alteryx Workflow , where the 4 workflow streams write the output to same excel file but different tabs( tab1, tab2, tab3, tab4). I added...

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Dynamic multi-row reference in Alteryx

Hello, I'm trying to write a Multi-row formula in Alteryx that references a previous row dynamically. For example, if the typical Field syntax is: [Row-1:Field1] or [Row-2:Field1], etc.; can I build...

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Bug: When using Text Input after Block Until Done, execution order fails

Hello, I haven't found a proper bug reporting part of the forums, so I'm posting this here. This is a rather obscure, but annoying bug I've encountered. My use case is the following: As a part of a...

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Remove Unique Values and Keep Duplicates

I would like to remove unique IDs and keep duplicates. e.g.)IDName1Apple1Apple2Banana3Watermelon3Watermelon4Strawberry5Peach Remove unique IDs, but keep duplicate IDs....

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Make Group not returning a match for all IDs in source data after Fuzzy Match

Hello Alteryx Community, I'm working on deduplicating a set of IDs based on first/last names. I start with my original file, which has about 1.4 million IDs. I set up my Fuzzy Match in purge mode, and...

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Percentile aggregation

Is there any Alteryx function that can recreate the following statement? percentile(CAST(substr(value,5) AS INT), array(0.0,0.5,0.99,1.0))

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Calculating Store Hours

I have a list of sample data with store hours for mon-fri, sat and sun. My goal is to calculate the open hours for mon-fri, sat and sun then sum the hours for a weekly total. I know this should be...

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Alteryx doesn't recognize certain characters?

I converted word document into txt file using this method http://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Knowledge-Base/Can-Alteryx-Parse-A-Word-Doc-Or-PDF/ta-p/1156 When the txt file is loaded into alteryx,...

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Finding the combination that adds up to a certain value

Is there a function in Alteryx similar to Excel Solver that would allow me to find the combination of values that sum up to a certain value?  I have about 250 values and I need to see what combination...

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Does Regular Expression Generator exist in Alteryx?

I am digging into regular expression recently.  I think the way that Alteryx takes advantage of regular expression is that, first users observe the pattern of a text (unstructured), then users type in...

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Date Format Errors

I am building analytics with the help of raw data. The formulas are heavily dependent on the date field which arrives in the below sample format-7/7/2016  11:38:00 AM I am usingA, to convert the date...

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How can I combine multiple columns into one?

Can someone help me to combine multiple columns of data into one? Column 1Column 2Column 3ADFBE C   Desired outputABCDEF If I use formulas and concatenate I end up with all of the data in one single...

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Generate start date based on end date

My end date is generated by a formula, DateTimeNow(). I would like to generate start date which is a year ago from today.I would like to get data with this format: 2016-08-21T00:00:00.Does anyone know...

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Automization of workflow for each Category

Hi ,  I am trying to figure out how to automize the workflow for 500 -600 categories. In the attached workflow i have put a filter of category, I want the same thing to be done one after the other for...

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Dynamic rename for all the files by first row of them separatively in a...

Hello everyone, I have a lot of csv files under a directory. I would like to use dynamic rename to every csv file with Rename Mode"Take field names from first row of data". Since the first row in every...

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Dates removing hh:mm:ss

I am trying to get this to name a file in the format of filename - 20160825 - 20160520.But it keeps displaying the hours minuts and seconds.Anyone know how I can get this removed?I have added the...

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Dynamic Text to Columns

Ok Alteryx Peeps! - here is a challenge (I know one of you will have already done this ) I get a string (quite large) value (its originally a table of data that is also comes comma delimeted) back from...

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