Reformat Excel Data Schema
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I need some help here. I've got to weekly absentee data that I need to ingest for analysis. I'll typically get this data as one file with about 50 different tabs (only 45 of which will I actually use the data from). The problem is the schema in which the data is provided is laid out in a way that is not easily...at least that I can tell...by Alteryx (see attached "AbsenteeDataProvided" file). I've tried attacking this thing from multiple angles and what seems to make the most sense is to reformats the data into a schema where each column contains a unique data element and each row is a record that can be parsed (see attached "AbsenteeDataDesiredFormat" file).
I've racked my brain, as well as the video tutorials, and Google/YouTube without success. My thought process was to somehow have Alteryx take a particular cell's data from the input source and place it in a different cell (that logically aligns with the desired schema) in the output file. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can do this? Or, if that won't work for some reason, how else can this be done. I can't imagine I'm the only one is the world getting a data source that's in a less-than-desirable layout.
Thanks,
David
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Hi @DavidKennedy , Here is the workflow to achieve your desired output. Let me know if it helped and please accept my solution.
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You are awesome! Being a newbie to Alteryx, it took me a while to understand what you did but it made total sense and seems to work great. Thank you so much for your help!
David
