Fill Up Using Multi-Row Tool

[Bren312]

Hi everyone, I have a question regarding the Multi-Row and I'm hoping someone can help me out.  I know this tool can be used to Fill Down if Row-1 is null or empty but I was wondering if the tool could be used to fill up dynamically.

In the included example, a list of Cities is given and the State is only provided in the last record for each city (screenshot below)

Would it be possible to populate the State for each city moving up from the bottom; considering that each state may have a different number of cities (i.e. Washington has two, while California has seven).

I'm attempting to attach a worksheet as a data source.  Also, I'm using Alteryx 2019.2.  Thanks guys!

Bren  

[Aaron_Harter · Accepted solution]

@Bren312 - Hi Bren, you can use a RecordID tool to assign the starting position values, then use a sort tool to flip the order, use the Multi-Row formula to perform the fill down function, and finally another sort tool to put the data in the original order.  See the attached solution: 

[cplewis90]

Hey,

I have attached another way to do it. I created a grouping for each state, resorted to put the non-null at the top, and then filled the states down.

[Bren312]

Top notch; thanks Aaron!  It looks like both your solution and the solution from @cplewis90 would work well to solve this problem.  I'd probably be inclined to use your method, strictly because the Multi-Row formula in the second solution is pretty daunting to me.  Thanks for the help! 

[Bren312]

Awesome; thanks for the help!  I'm still getting used to the Multi-Row tool and the IF function is pretty scary but you banged that out really quickly!

[Gina2021]

Thanks @Aaron_Harter ! I just used this!