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Row Level Sorting

JonathanRichey
7 - Meteor

Is it possible to sort at a row level? The current tab shows how my data is structured, the need tab is my solution. Is this possible to do a row level sort starting with Teacher1 through Teacher10 in Alteryx?

 

Current:

StudentTeacher 1Teacher 2Teacher 3Teacher 4Teacher 5Teacher 6Teacher 7Teacher 8Teacher 9Teacher 10
BobAMANDAMINDYPATRICKMICHAELPAULALISONMILACHRISTOPHESTEPHENMADELYN
BillCELESTINAERICBROOKEAYOTUNDEANDREAJONATHANAIDANAUREAALBANETTESTEPHEN
ErickKEVINMCGWIREJOHNELLJOSEPHALEXAGARYBRICEDEENADOUGLASMONIQUE
TyrionELIZABETHJASONSHUBINCHRISTOPHEKYLERICHARDJAMESJEFFREYRICHARDIVAN
CerseiHANAPHILIPBIBBYCHARLESKIMBERLYDAVIDDAVIDRAGHAVENDRAAMBERMARGERY
JaimeKATHYEMMYMARGARETBRIANMICHAELCAROLERAYMONDGLENNELISEFRANCES

 

 

Need:

StudentTeacher 1Teacher 2Teacher 3Teacher 4Teacher 5Teacher 6Teacher 7Teacher 8Teacher 9Teacher 10
BobALISONAMANDACHRISTOPHEMADELYNMICHAELMILAMINDYPATRICKPAULSTEPHEN
BillAIDANALBANETTEANDREAAUREAAYOTUNDEBROOKECELESTINAERICJONATHANSTEPHEN
ErickALEXABRICEDEENADOUGLASGARYJOHNELLJOSEPHKEVINMCGWIREMONIQUE
TyrionCHRISTOPHEELIZABETHIVANJAMESJASONJEFFREYKYLERICHARDRICHARDSHUBIN
CerseiAMBERBIBBYCHARLESDAVIDDAVIDHANAKIMBERLYMARGERYPHILIPRAGHAVENDRA
JaimeBRIANCAROLEELISEEMMYFRANCESGLENNKATHYMARGARETMICHAELRAYMOND

 

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StephenR
Alteryx
Alteryx

The Sort tool will do the trick (example attached)

Regards,
Stephen Ruhl
Principal Customer Support Engineer

ponraj
13 - Pulsar

Here is the sample workflow for your case.  Hope this is helpful. 

 

WorkflowWorkflow

myastarling
10 - Fireball

That's a really nice solution to this -- I'm going to file this away for future reference. The one thing I noticed is that if the teacher names are duplicated then the duplications are excluded. May I suggest a small modification to include these dupes? Rather than grouping by Value, concatenate instead and then parse into rows to keep the duplicates --

myastarling
10 - Fireball

sorry for the duplicate post -- for some reason it wouldn't let me post my workflow unless I replied directly to the original post. I've attached my slight modification.

JonathanRichey
7 - Meteor

@myastarling is it possible to share your workflow?

 

Thanks!

myastarling
10 - Fireball

@JonathanRichey

 

did my second post come through? For some reason I was unable to post a workflow responding to ponraj's response, so I added a response to the OP - let me know if it isn't visible on your end.

JonathanRichey
7 - Meteor

@myastarling yes. It showed right after I asked to share your workflow. Thanks @ponraj and @myastarling for the solution!

myastarling
10 - Fireball

whoops! my apologies! it needs one more sort tool immediately after the Transpose tool (sort by Value - ascending) - otherwise it reassembles everything back into the original order.

JonathanRichey
7 - Meteor

Updated to include sort after transpose. Thanks!

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