Join but show updates
I've got two simple tables Table_Jan: UserName, UserRole Table_May: UserName, UserRole I need to join these two tables but the output should be only users from May who also exited in January, but only...
View ArticleHow Unique determines which value to take
I'm querying a server at certain points in time and trying to append any new rows/update changed values. The information is continuous in time with datestamps for when something occurred and when a...
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Effective filter for a certain time period
Hi guys, I am a fresher by alteryx and wanted to know if there is an effective way to filter a certain data period? I would like to filter data from X to Z and currently I set two filter (s....
View ArticleUnion data with different column
Hi all, This is Laky, do need ur help. The situation is that, now, I have 2 different input files with different column names to make reconciliation. If any unreconciled item found, i need the output...
View ArticleRun cmd file, wait 15 minutes and then input data
I have an excel file that needs to be refreshed before the data is to be brought into the Alteryx Workflow. I have created a macro within the excel file that refreshes the data when the file is opened,...
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Regex expression error in Formula tool
Hi, Having a problem here - would be so much appreciated if anyone can provide the solution. to identify any digit character(s) in a field and to replace with a string letter(such as F) to a string...
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Date Conversion
Hi, I have an issue by converting a format of dates that omits 0 at the beginning of the month and for the first 9 months. See also my expression for the formula. FYI the input string also contains the...
View ArticleDividing by Column Maximum
I'm trying to divide values in a matrix by each column's maximum (also happens to be the matrix diagonal). The matrix size and field names vary for each run, is there a way to do this dynamically?
View ArticleRemoving an Indeterminate Number of Rows
Hello all, I get reports with a number of garbage rows before data actually starts. The issue is, depending on the report the number of garbage rows will vary. However, there is a constant. There's a...
View ArticleUnwanted auto-conversion to scientific notation
This issue has absolutely stumped me. I'm importing an extract of customer ID's from a CSV. All values are stored as "V_WString"s.A good chunk of customer IDs start with "00E" (e.g., "00E311"). These...
View ArticleMatching to the largest number smaller than X
Hi. I have a column of consecutive dates: Data set 1 DateJan 1Jan 2Jan 3...Dec 31 I have another data set where each row is an "activity", and the columns are "activity description" and "date" Data set...
View ArticleIterative Macro stalls randomly, won't freeze or error out
Hi, I'm running a series of nested Iterative Macros to conduct a series of monte carlo simulations. I'm inputing randomly select data that does run through 4 levels of nested iterative macros, the main...
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Please help with Fuzzy Match.. Thank you.
Hi Alteryx Guru, I am pretty new to Alteryx.... I am trying to do fuzzy match by the names. See below, I want to look the similarity between the column A and Column B. Could someone teach me how to...
View ArticleFiltering dates taking too long
Hi, I have a table with more than 18 million records. I am bringing it into alteryx using input tool and then changing date from string data type to date in order to filter to get todays date minus 15....
View ArticleInput Data Tool not picking up one of my columns
So I'm dealing with a pretty ugly Excel file with a lot of NULL rows and columns. There's a job that is dropping this file weekly and I'm trying to automate the process of scrubbing the file into a...
View ArticleUSGeoCoder CensusId and USZip9Coder Z9_Census_id
Hi,The US GeoCoder and US Zip9Coder both generate CensusId information, but they are not the same all the time. Does anyone know what that piece of information is based on and why it is different in...
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Repeat an info + sumif
Hi, I need to create a workflow to be able to reproduce this: I have part numbers on my invoice and a warranty code (which is also a part number) When i fond a part number that contains TG, i create a...
View ArticleDate conversion
Hi, I've been looking through the forums but haven't quite figured out my date conversion problem. I've gotten the date into this format: 3 Feb. 2008 and have tried this formula to get it into a date...
View ArticleConverting a value to negative based on IF condition
I have 2 fields in my data - "Amount" & "Indicator". Amount has all positive numbers (e.g. 3.2, 0.1, 10 etc.). Indicator has either "credit" or "debit" in it. I need to write an if condition so...
View ArticleJoin Input to Itself
Using a single input, is it possible to join the data stream to itself? The data stream includes archived data. I would like to join records from previous periods within the same table to their...
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