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Table Error: String variable switched type

BJACKSON
5 - Atom

Hi, 

 

Looking for a little help on the table tool. I am trying to dynamically create column rules by deselecting all of my fields before the tool, creating a "Dynamic or Unknown Fields" rule, and then bringing in the fields again. I am able to get this to work successfully if I convert all of my columns to strings, but then they output as text in Excel which I do not want. Is there a way to create dynamic column rules for numbers? I am simply checking whether a number is below 0 or not and then changing the text color to red. I am using the setup below in the picture. Whenever I attempt to run this, I get the error stating that "String variable switched type". Is there a way to resolve this error and preserve the numeric data type? Any help would be much appreciated. 

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echuong1
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

You should be able to do this with numbers without having to wrap the value in tonumber(). Are you able to upload a sample of your data?

 

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danilang
19 - Altair
19 - Altair

Hi @BJACKSON 

 

I may be mistaken here, but it looks like you want to apply this to all columns in the dataset.  If so, you can create a row rule that will apply to all columns

 

Dan  

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