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If conditional with multiple criteria

Rob48
8 - Asteroid

I'm using the Formula tool on the following type of data:

Acct

XXX-AAA

XXX-BBB

XXX-CCC

XXX-DDD

XXX-EEE

YYY-AAA

YYY-BBB

 

if the data has "AAA" (XXX-AAA and YYY-AAA are the targets) i want one result, if the data has "XXX" but not "AAA" then I want another result (the match is all the data starting with XXX except XXX-AAA)

 

i broke it up into two consecutive formula tools, the first one worked and went like this:

 

IF Contains([Acct], "AAA") THEN t ELSE f ENDIF

 

this worked, got the results i needed for XXX-AAA and YYY-AAA

 

 but then i added a second tool and wrote like this:

 

IF Contains([Acct], "XXX") and !Contains([Acct], "AAA") THEN t ELSE f ENDIF

 

this is not working -- it does what i want with the XXX data but invalidates what i did with the AAA data in the first tool.

 

can i either write this all in one formula tool, or in consecutive tools such that the formula in the second tool does not invalidate the first tool's formula? I could probably split them out with a filter and then recombine, but this seems like too many steps.

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echuong1
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

You can write multiple conditions in one statement. Your additional conditions would have ELSEIF.

 

For example:

 

IF Contains([Acct], "XXX") and !Contains([Acct], "AAA") THEN t2

ELSEIF Contains([Acct], "AAA") THEN t

ELSE f ENDIF

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