Amending Basic table headers

Hi All,

In my workflow, since I have changing Month End dates, I used dynamic rename to make 6 months data as 1/2/3/4/5/6 every time. However, when I render this finally to excel, I want the old Month End Dates to be displayed in MMM-YY format - can you please tell me how I should do this?

Original data:

Changed using dynamic rename as below:

For my final output, I want this to go back from 1/2/3 to MMM-YY formats - how do I reverse the rename to original before rendering to excel?

Thanks!

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mot

Hi @janani_venkat,

I understand your issue now. Since the column names will continue to change, you will have to continue updating the formatting rules. One way to resolve this problem would be to hide the header from the original table and add another table with the header only. You can then utilize union to show both tables together. You will need to have the same width for each column in both tables for the combination to look consistent. See my updates in the file. I hope this helps. Best.

Add back month to header.yxmd

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atcodedog05

Hi @janani_venkat

Can you provide your workflow with some sample data so that we can look into it.

mot

Hi @janani_venkat,

I am not sure why you had to rename the header. I think that you may be able to reach your desired outcome without this step but you may need to give more details to offer some suggestions.

Using your current workflow, there are several options to get back the original header names. You can create a table for the original first rows (field 1:1, Field 2: Dates, etc.) and then then use find and replace tool to replace the numbers with the original. I hope this helps.

janani_venkat

Hi @atcodedog05

Attached is my workflow sample - the reason I do the intervention is that I need to put in conditional formatting in my table and if I make the months constant, I wouldn't need to create that rule every month (since dynamic didn't seem to work)

@mot Would you mind giving me an example please?

Data Alteryx.xlsx

Add back month to header.yxmd

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