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Expand/ ungroup / desummarize a flattened record?

Nicholas_White
8 - Asteroid

Hello,

 

I need to expand some flattened records.

 

Here is some fake data, each record represents several records flattened together:

 

vitaminman12_0-1678228003635.png

 

These records look like they could have been cobbled together using the GROUP BY + CONCATENATE features of the Summarize Tool. 

 

I need to 'unsummarize' the records so that there are multiple records, one for each pairing of CHILD NAME, the START DATE of a PROGRAM, and the END DATE of a PROGRAM.

 The outcome would hopefully look like this:

 

vitaminman12_1-1678228165025.png

 

I have color coded the fields/values to best express what I hope for.

I've also attached the Excel file to play with.

Thanks,

 

Nick

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binuacs
21 - Polaris

@Nicholas_White One way of doing this with the transpose and cross tab tool

 

binuacs_0-1678228921525.png

 

Nicholas_White
8 - Asteroid

@binuacs ,

 

Thank you so much for your help.

 

I literally had the exact same tools, exact same order when trying to build my solution....but I didn't have them configured correctly, and my results were all over the place.

 

 You have saved me hours of frustration 🤑

 

Thanks,

 

Nick

 

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