Automatically Remove all null Colums

[mjunior7]

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 the ones which have, at least, one not null line?

Thanks in advance!!

Example: I want to do something like that

[Federica_FF · Accepted solution]

Hi,

if you don't have any boolean useful (that you want to keep) fields, you could use the autofield+dynamic select.

A field/column with all null rows is detected by the autofield tool as boolean (the autofield tool assigns the smallest size possible, that means boolean). After that you can use a dynamic select to select everything but not boolean fields.

[JordanB]

Hi @mjunior7

I have attached an example which renames the field headers for the Null fields and dynamically de-selects them.

Best,

Jordan Barker

Solutions Consultant

[patrick_digan]

@mjunior7 I use @ned_blog's macro from this (old) post. I haven't tried them personally before today, but it looks like @AlexK has one (similar to Ned's) and @Hollingsworth has another one (he's added some cool functionality) on the gallery. 

[mjunior7]

Hi @Federica_FF

It's really simple and worked!!! Thank you so much!

[mjunior7]

@JordanB,

I tried to use your solution but, unfortunately, it did not work :-(

[ldp]

Hi Frederica,

Is there something I am suppose to select in Auto Field?  And what do I select in the Dynamic Select?

Best Regards

[Federica_FF]

Hi @ldp,

for the Autofield just be sure that all the Fields you want to check are selected/checked in the tool configuration panel.

For the Dynamic Select you can configure the tool like this:

[AIChudnovsky]

@JordanB Thanks! This workflow helped a great deal.  I have some blank cells instead of null cells so using CountNonBlank in the Summarize Tool helped capture both blanks and nulls.  If you also wanted to remove any columns that had zeros, in addition to blanks and nulls, I'm not sure how to apply that to your approach.  But otherwise, very helpful!