Use Excel column field as formula definition for grouping

Question

I'm trying to use Alteryx to do benchmarking. I have a series of facilities with survey questions and answers, and I want to compute metrics within the same facility for all facilities. There are about 130 different metrics. I'm also working with a prior analyst's work, where the metric definitions are next to each metric number on a different table. A toy example is below.

My thoughts on my options:

* Find a way to perform these calculations (all within the same facility as a grouping) where I can use the metric definition (from excel ideally) as input as the metric definitions as a custom formula input.
* Re-define all these metric calculations within Alteryx, although I'm not sure the best way to do that without creating a giant workflow.

I welcome any thoughts on the right tool for the job. I can use Qlik or Excel also.

FacilityQuestionAnswerMetricCalcF1Q145M111.25F1Q24M232F1Q38M31440F2Q142M17F2Q26M242F2Q37M31764

MetricDefinitionM1Q1/Q2M2Q2*Q3M3Q1*Q2*Q3

kcgreen · Accepted Answer

I don't know that there's an easy way to create 130 formulas.  Here's how I'd do it one by one:

Claje · Accepted Answer

There's a really powerful CReW Macro called Dynamic Formula that is perfect for your workflow.

I've attached an example of how to build your desired output.

The key requirement is defining the data type of your metrics, and the data size.  I used Double with size 8 as a default, but you may want FixedDecimal with a specific size instead.  This is really up to you and depends on your granularity//accuracy requirements.

Hope this helps!