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How to find First Not Empty/NOT NULL Cell across Columns and How to Handle When All Empty

JPSeagull
8 - Asteroid

Borrowing from this topic: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/How-to-find-the-fist-not-null-cell/m-p... (thank you, MarqueeCrew for posting the solution)  which helped me with the first part of my solution. I have mostly all empty/null cells across 5 columns, but this solution only returns when there are values. How would I take this and enhance it to return the word "Due" if there is no starting number? Attaching the workflow I borrowed from another topic. I added the Browse tool to see what is happening at each step.

 

Nameno.1no.2no.3no.4no.5the starting number
a123451
b     Due
c  3453
d   454
e123451
f1 3451
g1  451
h     Due
i1 3451
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ChrisTX
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

See attached workflow.

 

ChrisTX_0-1659034776268.png

 

 

Chris

JPSeagull
8 - Asteroid

I figured it out. Just needed to change the joins, a Union and Formula tool. Attached is the fix.

JPSeagull
8 - Asteroid

Thank you, ChristTX! This works too! Much appreciated!

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