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Date Compassion - Sequential Generation

AlteryxUserFL
11 - Bolide

I have two tables I need to compare. One table shows a list of users, the date the user was approved or changed, and their new or updated access level. I want to compare that to another table that shows the access level of each user every day. I'm looking to find any differences. I figure the best way to do that would be to sequentially generate a list of access levels between each change on table A and then join the two tables. Any ideas on how to do that? 

 

UserAccess LevelApproved Date 
UserA501/01/2019
UserB201/02/2019
UserC301/02/2019
UserA101/03/2019

 

 

 

DateUserLevel
01/01/2019UserA5
01/01/2019UserB0
01/01/2019UserC0
01/02/2019UserA1
01/02/2019UserB2
01/02/2019UserC3
01/03/2019UserA5
01/03/2019UserB2
01/03/2019UserC3

   

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MarqueeCrew
20 - Arcturus
20 - Arcturus

@AlteryxUserFL ,

 

I would use the 2nd table to try to create the first table.  One challenge is to convert your "date" field into an ISO-DATE format:

 

DateTimeParse(date,"%m/%d/%Y")

Doing this transform you'll now be able to sort the dates and group them properly.

 

Your level 0 I assume is a placeholder, so drop them in a filter.  There is a data issue in that UserA has an access level of 1 on 01/02/2019.  Maybe that is a test?

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

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