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Ranking by Report Name

Looking for help.I need to add a new column and rank the Sum U/C Inventory(under construction) by Report Name. 1 being the largest and then descending. I can take care of the Nulls.Below is what I'm...

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Delete data in specified fields

Hi, I am very new to Alteryx.  I was wondering if there is a way to delete the DATA from selected fields.  Example, table 1 has 20 fields, I want to delete the data out of 15 of them while still...

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Subtracting Holidays from Business Days

So I have the business days calculating correctly.  Is there anyway to have alteryx look at a list of dates, see if these dates are in the range (Start Date and End Date) and return a 1 if it is and a...

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Date Conversion issue - DateTimeParse only return partial values.

Hi Alteryx experts,  I am trying to convert a date field using DateTimeParse, the results only return part of the values.   What would cause problem?  Anyone have some idea?   The original Field look...

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Convert HTML image to PNG image

Hello, Does Alteryx has a capability to save .png images?  I have a python code that converts HTML url image to PNG image.  When I tried to run it in Alyterx using "run command" tool, it didn't work....

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Creating Null Values in Number Fields

I would like to make line graphs dead-end by changing 0 to Nulls in Double fields. The following function returned -1, instead of Null (the function does correctly return 0 when I replace Null with 0)....

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Dynamic Input Tool with SQL query: how can I avoid running the query for zero...

All,  I am using a Dynamic Input tool which runs an SQL query against a remote and very slow database. The input to the Dynamic Input tool is a list of dates, each as a separate data row. The query's...

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Iterative Macro to split time intervals

I'm attempting to create an iterative macro that splits time intervals into two separate intervals and then repeats the process until each time intervals doesn't cross a certain threshold.  I am new to...

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How do I pad leading Zeros?

I have:1234500 I want:00001234500 I'm new.

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Averaging all numeric fields into a new field

This process should be fairly simple in Alteryx but it doesn't seem to be. I have a data set that I will be adding fields to and need to dynamically update the average function to include the new field...

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How to iterate/loop wf when input is dynamically generated

I am parsing a JSON from an API that only returns 100 records per API call and one of the record is the API address of the next 100 records. You call the new API address and it returns the next 100...

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How to truncate multiple email addresses left of @

Hi, I am attempting to truncate a set of email addresses of varying length with the goal of returning only the string of characters left of the '@' character.  Examples of desired output:xxxx@gmail.com...

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How to concatenate a string to an Alteryx Tool generated RecordID

Hi, For some reason when I attempt to concatenate a string prefix to my record id the extended string is cut short.  For example: 1. Set up Record Id of length 6 as a string2. Using Formula ID I use...

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Comparing Dates with DateTimeTrim

I didn't find a post on this, but I was getting unexpected results in a formula where I was testing a date with the results of the DateTimeTrim function. It was resolving to false even thought the...

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Date or Tool - Multi-row Formula

Hello, Funny one here. Using a Reg Ex and Multi-row tools to make a new colunm with clients name on each row.Attached is WF, The Multi-row tool should be creating a new column with just client names...

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Use very large numbers within Alteryx

Hi all, I did some calculations based on the 'chessboard-wheat' problem.Here an extract out of Wikipedia:The wheat and chessboard problem (sometimes expressed in terms of rice grains) is a mathematical...

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Text to Columns tool - Bug/Oversight/or as intended?

Hi  So i have been using the text to columns tool to parse out a string with a delimiter of 3 characters in the following sequence -^- However the tool only takes the first - as the delimiter.  I...

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Talend Merge tables together

I would like to merge three tables that have the following structure societesfournisseursclientsidididnamenamenameaddresssociete_idsociete_id I need to merge them into one table "companies" that have...

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CASS Address Type Code

Hi everyone,I am looking at t he possible values for CASS_AddressType_Code from the definition in help and for some reason my results are limited to "H" & "S" only even though I know some of them...

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Automatically Remove all null Colums

Hey guys!I have a file with more than 400 colums but many of this colums are completelly null. The null ones change everyday.is there a way to remove automatically all this null columns and keep just...

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