topic Re: TONUMBER ERROR in Alteryx Designer Desktop Discussions

TONUMBER ERROR

jboschee — Thu, 24 May 2018 05:19:58 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm getting this error when doing a currency conversion. Below is the formula I'm using for the conversion.

'$'+TOSTRING(TONUMBER([GROSS SALES])/TONUMBER([Budget Rate]),2,1,".")

In my export, it is returning $1,703.56 when it should be $1,074,245.05

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Re: TONUMBER ERROR

CharlieS — Tue, 15 May 2018 21:37:51 GMT

@jboschee

If you have commas in your [GROSS SALES] and [Budget Rate] columns, those will need to be removed for the calculation. Try this:

'$'+TOSTRING(TONUMBER(replace([GROSS SALES],",",""))/TONUMBER(replace([Budget Rate],",","")),2,1,".")

Re: TONUMBER ERROR

jboschee — Tue, 15 May 2018 21:43:07 GMT

Unfortunately, it didn't work. Still getting the error and having the calculation cut off.

Re: TONUMBER ERROR

CharlieS — Tue, 15 May 2018 21:47:56 GMT

@jboschee

Could you provide an input file with some example values?

Re: TONUMBER ERROR

jboschee — Tue, 15 May 2018 22:01:09 GMT

Hi Charlie,

Here's an example of the input and the output I'm receiving.

Re: TONUMBER ERROR

CharlieS — Tue, 15 May 2018 22:31:55 GMT

@jboschee

Take a look at my attached solution. It runs with no conversion errors for me. Please let me know if this helps.

Re: TONUMBER ERROR

jboschee — Tue, 15 May 2018 22:43:28 GMT

Thanks for all the help Charlie. I received zero values for all converted to USD values. I attached a picture of the workflow I'm working with. #1 - with your formatting and #2 is with your conversion formula

Re: TONUMBER ERROR

MarqueeCrew — Tue, 15 May 2018 23:43:16 GMT

@jboschee,

WebEx is wonderful.

When you try to store a string value into a number, you generally get 0. If however, you start the string with numbers, you'll get the numbers until you hit a character not in the set of {0-9 or .}.
Keep your incoming data as either fixed decimal or double
Convert to string with:
```
ToString([My Number], 2, 1, ".")
```
Where [My Number] is a number and 2 is the # of desired decimal places and 1 says that you've got thousand "characters" and that your decimal is a dot.
Your IN-DB (teradata) is nice, but with ADHD I couldn't take it. So I added an OUTPUT to a "cache.yxdb" file and moved a UNION tool after your DATA STREAM OUT. Then I put those tools (not the union) into a container, "LIVE DATA" and disabled it. Then I added an input tool inside of a "CACHED DATA" container that read the cache.yxdb file. The output from the INPUT tool was connected to that same UNION. You can now flip between your containers as needed.

All worked wonderfully.

Cheers,
Mark