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Multiple options formula

Hi community, I am trying to classify a large amount of information into the following banding.RevenueBandingA = <100B = 100 - 1,000C = 1,001 - 2,500D = 2,501 - 5,000E = 5,001 - 7,500F = 7,501 -...

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Single Column Records Matching

In my dataset, I got a field with company names. I would like to check the similarity between those records within this single field. I thought Fuzzy Matching would be a good start. However, after...

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Combining 2 Columns to 1 column (non-unique)

Hi, I have a quick question on combining 2 columns into 1 row. I have the following dataset: Fiscal YearFinancial PeriodAug-15  Oct-15Aug-15 Aug-15 Nov-15 Nov-15 As the data is essentially the same in...

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Using regex with Text To Columns

Is it possible to define your delimiter with regex in the Text To Columns tool?

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Dynamic replace with spreadsheet?

Greetings: I have a data file ALL_MSA.csv with a list of cities in the NAME field.  Some of the names are incorrect.  So, I have another spreadsheet called Fix.xlsx that contains two fields.  One field...

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Date Filter

I need to use the date filter (or something with date) that everytime i run alteryx with the scheduler, it will take the actual day - 1 year - i can't do that with the date filter, if i manually choose...

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Fixed Width Flat File

I have a process where I am trying to generate a fixed width flat file. The output file has multiple row types, each row has the same total width but the columns within the row would have different...

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Aggragate the raw data (contetns) to see top topics

Hello, I am wondering if Alteryx can aggregate the raw data (contents) we get from social media (i.e. facebook, forums, and blogs) into organized topics.  I would like to see which topics are people...

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Assigning unique numbers to nonidentical rows based on conditions & variance...

 Hi all, This is quite a complicated ask in my opinion but I have 2 questions that I would like regarding the sample of the data below. The original dataset contains thousands of rows hence it is...

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Best practice - Recording Workflow hierarchy

Hi all Bit of a general question, but I was wondering whether anybody had any examples of best practice that they could share with regards to documentation of workflows and how they hang together. With...

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Input Tool -- ZIP option

The article here Inputting-data-from-a-zip-file talks about the new ability to open a file within a ZIP archive. Can I assume that if I want to dynamically open multiple files from inside a ZIP (i.e....

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Simplification for data filter

Hi all,we run a weekly report. This report collects all entries from last week only. Currently we use a filter to get the data for this week. Every week we need to change the filter manually to adjust...

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Regex non-english characters

Hello, I have fileds that contain both english and non-english characters like ü, ö, ß. What would be a regex function to cover the non english characters. 

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Remove special characters

I would like to do what "Data Cleanings" function does and so remove special characters from a field with the formula function.For instance: addaro'  becomes addaro, samuel$ becomes samuel I know I can...

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Have user input a date which is then used to filter a database on.

Hello Is there a way were the user input a date and then through a series of workflows that user inputted date is used to filter a particular data set on? 

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Multiple options formula

Hi community, I am trying to classify a large amount of information into the following banding.RevenueBandingA = <100B = 100 - 1,000C = 1,001 - 2,500D = 2,501 - 5,000E = 5,001 - 7,500F = 7,501 -...

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Single Column Records Matching

In my dataset, I got a field with company names. I would like to check the similarity between those records within this single field. I thought Fuzzy Matching would be a good start. However, after...

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Combining 2 Columns to 1 column (non-unique)

Hi, I have a quick question on combining 2 columns into 1 row. I have the following dataset: Fiscal YearFinancial PeriodAug-15  Oct-15Aug-15 Aug-15 Nov-15 Nov-15 As the data is essentially the same in...

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Using regex with Text To Columns

Is it possible to define your delimiter with regex in the Text To Columns tool?

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Dynamic replace with spreadsheet?

Greetings: I have a data file ALL_MSA.csv with a list of cities in the NAME field.  Some of the names are incorrect.  So, I have another spreadsheet called Fix.xlsx that contains two fields.  One field...

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