ACT NOW: The Alteryx team will be retiring support for Community account recovery and Community email-change requests Early 2026. Make sure to check your account preferences in my.alteryx.com to make sure you have filled out your security questions. Learn more here
Start Free Trial

Alteryx Designer Desktop Discussions

Find answers, ask questions, and share expertise about Alteryx Designer Desktop and Intelligence Suite.
SOLVED

Multi-Row Formula producing negative numbers

dsouthh
7 - Meteor

I have a list of N records (only 1 field) and am dividing the (N+1)th record by the Nth record for all N>1. For N = 1, I set the value to 1. Here is my expression:

 

IF [Field1] = 1  THEN [Field1] = 1 
Else [Field1]/[Row-1:Field1] ENDIf

The output is correct except all the numbers are negative. Any ideas why? 

2 REPLIES 2
JohnJPS
15 - Aurora

THEN "[Field] = 1" produces -1, since [Field] does not equal 1.  Just put [Field] there.  :-)

dsouthh
7 - Meteor

Keep forgetting phrases like that evaluate as booleans. Thank you!

Labels
Top Solution Authors