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Data cleansing tool substitute

Aakanksha_chandak
8 - Asteroid

what tool can work same as data cleansing does

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binuacs
21 - Polaris

@Aakanksha_chandak you can use the formula tool or multi-field tool

ShankerV
17 - Castor

@Aakanksha_chandak 

 

Formula tool can do it for you.

Aakanksha_chandak
8 - Asteroid

How to replace blanks, remove nulls, zero, whitespaces with multifield formula?

 

Christina_H
14 - Magnetar

The Data Cleansing tool is a macro, you can open it up to see how it works.

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E.g. to replace nulls with 0, scroll across to the right to find correct container.  It looks like the formula used is either in the macro questions or in the action tool connected to the macro.

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Replace with 0 (macro questions)

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Replace all whitespace (action tool)

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Aakanksha_chandak
8 - Asteroid

actually I have numerous data cleansing tools in my workflow and when i run it multiple times, several field names get unchecked because of which "numeric strings" get unpopulated etc, how to sort this issue

 

flying008
15 - Aurora

Hi, @Aakanksha_chandak 

 

Maybe you can show the screenshot of error as your said.

Aakanksha_chandak
8 - Asteroid

There is no error, its just data cleansing tool automatically un-checks some of the fields resulting in numeric field output to become zero

flying008
15 - Aurora

Can you upload sample data to test ?

Aakanksha_chandak
8 - Asteroid

Sample data:

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