Pass dropdown selection value to other points in workflow

Hi,

I am quite new to Alteryx and was not able to find an answer to this.

I created a dropdown for a user to select a report name at the start of a workflow. I have more than one input file, but each will have the report name in it. I need the value they selected to be accessible as a global variable so to speak so I can use it to pull the correct records from other input files in the workflow.

Workflow

Accepted answers

JosephSerpis

Hi @jswirat I mocked up an example of the approach I mentioned. Let me know what you think?

Dropdown_TextInput.yxzp

All comments

JosephSerpis

Hi @jswirat you can have multiple actions tools connected to your dropdown that connect to each input. Or else you can update a Text Input that then feeds this into a number of dynamic input tools.

jswirat

I like the idea of using the text input tool, but cannot find an example of how to flow from dropdown, to action, to text input. The examples show only to a select tool or an input data tool and I struck out on Google. I have tried a number of configurations, but still can't get the dropdown selection value to populate in the text input. Can you help this noob w/ that part?

Quick Links

This months top contributors

SophiaF 432

AkimasaKajitani 390

mceleavey 388

mbarone 337

michael_weaver 335