How do I generate a Data Dictionary...

As my Alteryx workflows are becoming more complex and involve integrating and conforming more and more data sources it is becoming increasingly important to be able to communicate what the output fields mean and how they were created (ie transformation rules) as output for end user consumption; particular the file target state output.

What are my options to create an extract of metadata including field definitions I've defined using the SELECT Tool?

Workflow

Output

Alteryx Designer

Documentation

Alias Manager

Updates

Accepted answers

MarqueeCrew

Data captured in a select tool can be transformed and ready for export via a FIELD INFO tool.

https://help.alteryx.com/11.0/index.htm#FieldInfo.htm

Cheers,

Mark

All comments

MarqueeCrew

Data captured in a select tool can be transformed and ready for export via a FIELD INFO tool.

https://help.alteryx.com/11.0/index.htm#FieldInfo.htm

Cheers,

Mark

ryan_stericycle

That is a good option for the first part of a dictionary.

How would we add the next fields to it dynamically. That is we have a data frame with m variables. We want to add these fields to describe the data even more.