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Truncated Characters in cell

raguinaga7
6 - Meteoroid

New user here. Need assistance. When I import a file in Designer, I get the following error:

 

This cell has truncated characters.

 

Tried several fixes but can't resolved???

 

Any suggestions would be appreciated :)

 

Robert

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alexnajm
18 - Pollux
18 - Pollux

Are you reading a CSV? You can change it in the options of the Input Data tool

 

are you just viewing “truncated characters” in your results? A Browse tool can help

 

any additional info would be great!

caltang
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

If you're calling in a csv file, you can change the length like so:

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Calvin Tang
Alteryx ACE
https://www.linkedin.com/in/calvintangkw/
raguinaga7
6 - Meteoroid

Apologies.

 

Importing a XML file (see attached image files):

 

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Any help would be appreciated :)

raguinaga7
6 - Meteoroid

Please see response in thread below.

 

Calling in XML file.

 

caltang
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Have you tried this: https://knowledge.alteryx.com/index/s/article/XML-Parsing-for-Beginners-1583459132283 ?

Calvin Tang
Alteryx ACE
https://www.linkedin.com/in/calvintangkw/
raguinaga7
6 - Meteoroid

Yes I did see but so far didn't help. Thanks for suggesting. Still trying to work through. Only been able to workaround through using other tools so far.

dreldrel
8 - Asteroid
KGT
13 - Pulsar

In case this hasn't cleared up by now...

 

The truncated characters message is just a display in the results window... add a browse to see the full data, by default it's limited to 256 characters.

 

The error message you are getting is because the check field is not an XML, the error is saying that it's invalid structure and the field starts with G when it should start with <.

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