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Parse Survey data that is Concatenated Display in Colum / Row format

LAS1
7 - Meteor

Working on a form that has a form ID for each unique form in row format, and all of the data is concinnated into one cell. I want to break out all the questions into Row Header = Question and Cell value = Answer.  Some answers can be blank. 

 

Data is coming from AWS

 

I have attached the input and the output I desire 

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JoeS
Alteryx
Alteryx

Nice little parsing problem there.

 

Likely to be many ways to achieve it but this is how I set about solving it:

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I have annotated the tools, let me know if there are any steps you are unclear on 🙂

Ben_H
11 - Bolide

Hi @LAS1,

 

Nothing really to add here, I just wanted to have a go at it too!

 

My solution -

 

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Regards,

 

Ben

 

 

 

LAS1
7 - Meteor

Just what I was looking for. I will admit, I have struggled with this longer than I’m willing to admit!

 

 

LAS1
7 - Meteor

Different way than above, but just what I was looking for!

JoeS
Alteryx
Alteryx

Sometimes you can just get stuck on a problem and can't think around it. Happens to us all.

 

Glad we were able to help!

LAS1
7 - Meteor

Hey Joe, 

 

Follow up question for you. I actually have ~ 100 rows of data (hey have unique IDs or we can make them), so when I run the workflow it makes thousands of columns. Is there a way to force the query to move to a new row once the data is finished being parsed? 

Ben_H
11 - Bolide

Hi @LAS1,

 

You can do it by adding a record ID and using that to cross tab.

 

See attached example (I just duplicated the one input row to try it out)

 

Regards,

 

Ben

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