Help Understanding Data returned from the Twitter connection tool
Hey everyone, I need some help understanding data that is being returned from the twitter tool. The tool appears to be working fine, but some of the data coming back is nearly duplicated. I would like...
View ArticleBasic company fuzzy matching between master and new sources
I have just a basic question about how Alteryx labels Record IDs after a Merge Mode fuzzy match. In match results, Alteryx adds a "2" next to one of the Record ID names. (i.e. there will be RecordID...
View ArticleLabelling of Record IDs in Fuzzy Match Merge Mode
I have just a basic question about how Alteryx labels Record IDs after a Merge Mode fuzzy match. In match results, Alteryx adds a "2" next to one of the Record ID names. (i.e. there will be RecordID...
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Pivoting attribute-value pairs so the attributes become headers and the...
I need to join one attri-value paired table and one master table that contains the actual attribute name/header. The result is shown in Results window below.. but what I really want is to...
View ArticleDate parse method for DDMMMYYYY ?
Good Afternoon, I have a question about converting a vstring to a date format. The data I have comes from a massive .csv file that when I import everything comes in as a vstring. I have a date field...
View ArticleParse Column Between Tokens
Hello, I'm extremley new to Alteryx and just getting a feel for the product via a demo, have a very simple usecase that took me minutes to perform on IBMs QualityStage but not too sure how to do it...
View ArticleHelp with formula
I need help with the creation of two formulas:I need to convert a string value that says "Mid-Atlantic" to "MA"I need to remove the dashes from a SSN (e.g., xxx-xx-xxxx converted to xxxxxxxxx) Thank you.
View ArticleReverse the direction of the likert scale on negative numbers.
I am looking to reverse the direction of the likert scale on all variables that had negative = highfor consistency so that positive = high across all variablesI am basically looking to move some things...
View ArticleRemoving [Null] Lines
Everyone: Thanks in advance for the help - so, I am working with an input that has rows with nulls within different columns e.g. some in column 2 and some in column 3. Is there a quick and easy way to...
View ArticleSplit Columns Based on Preceding Spaces
Thanks in advance everyone - I have a newbie question that I cannot seem to figure out: I need to split columns of data based on is the data has 4 spaces in front of the text or none. I found the text...
View ArticleRound to two decimal places
Hi, I have the below table and want to round Rent Balance to two decimal places and the result should match as in the Required column. I tried using the Round function but that does not give the...
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Creating an UI for multiple formats (long vs wide) of input data
I am stuck with an option to create upload either a long for wide format of the initial dataset. My requirement is 1) The user selects either one of the two data formats (long or wide). If it is a...
View ArticleMulti-Condition IF THEN ELSE statement
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to do a multi-condition 'IF THEN ELSE' statement in the formula tool, I want to replace the contents of a string but only if two conditions are met, so...
View ArticleFormula for creating random numbers
I have to assign random numbers between 0.6 - 1 for 500000 records in alteryx. I tried by using function called Randint() but its not working. can anyone please help me on this. Thanks,Bharath
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Delimiters (spaces, /) in string elements changed to underscore while using...
I was trying to get unique elements from a mapping dataset using crosstab so that I can use it as a UI option. Though, I was able to get the UI running, it changed the spaces and other punctuation to...
View ArticleFuzzy Matching and Key Generation -- what is selective enough?
I am doing a fuzzy merge match between a master file and a secondary file. I am getting the warning "The Key Generation might not be selective enough for optimal performance" when running a match on...
View ArticleAutomatically delete fields (if duplicates)
Hello all, I have a dataset containing 2000+ fields, and wish to automatically remove fields in a similar fashion the the R code below. keep <- as.data.frame(read.csv("../...
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Dynamic extraction of unique elements from a column for UI option
I am trying to extract dynamically unique elements from a column in a dataset for passing it as elements in list box. I used the following workflow to do that: The UI window is The app works...
View ArticleCheck a specific field in dataset depending on the value of a string
Hi All, I have a dataset which looks something like below (only with hundreds of fields):...
View ArticleRun tool with data Passthrough
Hello everyone. I am struggling with the ability to use a run command for a windows run command while still passing data through a given flow through the Run command. For example: If the first step is...
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