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Help Outputting File Name using a Field Name

clone501
5 - Atom

Ultimately I am trying to Output 3 Sheets to a single Excel file each to be named a different thing. I've managed to successfully name 2 of the Sheets using a Field Name from the input data however, the 3rd Sheet will occasionally have no data and therefore I cannot get the Sheet to be named off a Field. The name of this 3rd Sheet needs to be the file name from the input file + "Sheet Name." Any workarounds for this?  

 

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binuacs
21 - Polaris

@clone501 Have you tried the option output file name as field in the input tool? That option will output the input file name in a separate column

 

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clone501
5 - Atom

Yes, this is how I started it and then when I am setting up my output I try and reference this field but there are no values because the input was empty to begin with.

Yoshiro_Fujimori
15 - Aurora

@clone501 ,

I understand you want to have a sheet even when there is no data to output,

but the problem is that Output Data Tool only creates a sheet when there is data to write to it.

 

As a workaround, I added a row to the data with null data exept for the sheet name.

 

Dummy data

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Workflow

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Image of Sheet_c on Excel

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Downside is that it still have data in "SheetName" column.

Does it work for you?

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