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Organizing Table with many nulls and unnecessary rows

Csam
6 - Meteoroid

Good morning,

 

I have a large table with many columns which all contain the same type of row info but with different values. Currently there's a lot of nulls which makes my table much larger than it needs to be. Here's an example of what I mean:

 

COLOURSHIRT QUANTITYPANTS QUANTITYSHOES QUANTITY
RED43NULLNULL
BLUE54NULLNULL
REDNULL23NULL
BLUENULL45NULL
REDNULLNULL65
BLUENULLNULL34

 

When I would like it to be:

 

COLOURSHIRT QUANTITYPANTS QUANTITYSHOES QUANTITY
RED432365
BLUE544534

 

Is there a way to easily transform the first table into the second in Alteryx?

 

Thank you!

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Thableaus
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @Csam 

 

There's a little trick using Transpose Tool and the Cross-Tab tool that can help you do that.

 

organizerename.PNG

 

 

- Transpose your columns grouping by Colour field

- Filter the Null Values 

- Use Cross-Tab tool to go back to your dataset

 

You might need to rename and sort the columns, but I think this works pretty well.

 

WF attached.


Cheers,

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