Manual option from Tile tool

Question

Hi I was using the Manual tile option from Tile tool. The title numbers are perfect according to the limit I set. However the Tile_SequenceNum field gives some weird sequence. I was messing with it all day to know what is the logic behind that sequence but didnt make any sense to me.

Please help!!

The workflow is the example one from Alteryx.

ImadZidan · Accepted Answer

Hello @rick007 ,

I think the idea behind Tile_SequenceNum is to give some sort of uniqueness to the record which becomes very handy when wanting to join later on. If you sort the result dataset by Tile_Num you will notice that the sequence number is a sequential number and resets for every new tile.  In this case to make a record unique, you would use the tile and the sequence number.

For example, if you want the 10th record in tile 1 then you would use condition like  tile =1 and SequenceNum = 10.

I hope this makes sense.