Special Characters in Header and Dropdown UI

[JulianS1]

Hey all, 

I am trying to set up an Alteryx App with a dropdown menu which contains special characters.

So far I ve been first getting all the desired dropdown selections as a header and in a second step used these headers as an input for the dropdown menu. As I understand, the problem now is that Alteryx headers have certain imitations regarding the allowed characters. Can you maybe help me with some ideas how I would be able to get dropdown selections with special characters into the UI?

Overall Workflow

1. Dynamically created descriptions 

2. Descriptions to headers 

3. Dropdown UI

Maybe there is a way to allow special characters in headers or is there also another way to get strings as a selection for the dropdown?

Thank you for the help!

Julian

[markcurry]

Hi @JulianS1 

See @DavidP 's blog on preserving the headers with the Transpose tool.

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works/Can-the-real-Field-Name-please-stand-up/ba-p/611088

I hope that helps,

Mark

[JulianS1]

Hey Markcurry!

Nice! Works like a charm 🙂

Thanks a lot! 

Julian