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Raw data to Pivot table

ssubra60
6 - Meteoroid

Hi everyone, I am trying to change the following data into a pivot table. I am totally lost on how to do this. Any ideas? I have attached the book1 file where there is a raw data format and the desired output file. If someone can help, I will be highly appreciative. Thanks, Sri

 

Raw data:

Income statementJan  Feb  Mar  
  ARSAUDBGLARSAUDBGLARSAUDBGL
A010T-Total Vehicle Sales -- Dealers -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   
A011T-Total DH&D -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   
A012-Dealer Margin Holdbacks -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   
A015-Other Revenue Reductions -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -   
      -    -    -    -    -    -   

 

The desired format is like a pivot table

TimeAccount lineCurrency
Jan 2017A010T-Total Vehicle Sales -- DealersARS
Jan 2017A011T-Total DH&DARS
Jan 2017A012-Dealer Margin HoldbacksAUD
Jan 2017A015-Other Revenue ReductionsAUD
Jan 2017A020-Vehicle Sales -- OutsideAUD
---
Feb 2016A010T-Total Vehicle Sales -- DealersARS
Feb 2017A011T-Total DH&DARS
Feb 2018A012-Dealer Margin HoldbacksARS
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MSalvage
11 - Bolide

@ssubra60, 

 

I hope I did this in the right direction. I was a little confused whether the Excel sheet was indeed the raw data or not, but I used it as such.

 

Also, I just guessed that there would be an income field and populated it. Example attached.

 

Good Luck, 

MSalvage

ssubra60
6 - Meteoroid

Thank you so much for your solution. Would you mind sending your solution in a version compatible with 10.6? Is this hard?

 

I am new to Alteryx and my company has not recommended the 11 use yet.

 

If it is too hard, please let me know.

 

Thanks,

Sri

pcatterson
11 - Bolide

This is a bit arduous, but I think it gives you the basics on how to transpose data.  There is nothing in the source data to tell me how the year is determined, so I left that undone:

ssubra60
6 - Meteoroid

This solution addresses the problem I had of identifying the new months and transposing them. I am hoping I can pass it through the original file to see if I can replicate the flow for the actual file. Thank you so much!

MSalvage
11 - Bolide

@ssubra60, 

 

Actually I do not know how to do that. Sorry about that... 

 

-MSalvage

MSalvage
11 - Bolide

@ssubra60,

 

Decided to google it and look at that there is a post describing how to do adjust it to your version. 

 

Hope it works out.

 

-MSalvage

ssubra60
6 - Meteoroid

Hi @cpatterson,

 

Thanks for the solution. The alteryx seems to work half way till you get to "jan,aud" "jan,cad" but when using cross-tab to create the pivot table, the income statement lines are lost in the "in-number" parsing. Would you it be possible to help to fix this problem?

 

Thanks,

Sri

pcatterson
11 - Bolide

I'm not clear what isn't working.

 

Could you fill in your before and after with hypothetical data so I know where you want it to all end up?  You left the table blank and I had to imagine a likely scenario where things would be.

ssubra60
6 - Meteoroid

Hi @cpatterson

 

This is the file with pseudo data and what we need is a pivot table by month, currency, income line the dollars i.e

So each cell will be a separate line in the pivot table with its dimensions as row ad well,

 

For example- the vehicles cost in AUD for Jan 2017 IS 300 then we have:

 

Jan 2017            AUD         Vehicles Cost       300

Jan 2017           AUD          Revenue               400

 

Please see attached.

 

Thank you so much!!! Really appreciate it.

 

Thanks,

Sri

 

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