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Using Alteryx to Populate Blank Excel Template using Batch Macro for Multiple Sheets

c-yun
6 - Meteoroid

I'm trying to build an Alteryx workflow that will populate an Excel file with 4 different sheets.

With how I have the current workflow configured, I can get the first 2 sheets to populate (DFUTOSKU_YS and HIst_KDUK_YS), but I can't get the "Hist_FCST" and "New Exception Report" to populate the respective input data.

When I open the output excel file after running my workflow, Alteryx created 2 new sheets at the end

These were titled "Hist_FCST$D1" and "New_Exception_Report$A$17" which was the sheet+cell combination I wanted Alteryx to start populating.

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Dhrish
8 - Asteroid

@c-yun You must select preserve formatting in the output tool to preserve formatting and update the value in a specific cell. 

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c-yun
6 - Meteoroid

I just checked and it looks like I have it checked already.

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binuacs
21 - Polaris

@c-yun Make sure you are not passing any blank lines to the blob input and output tools, also, when you pass the category through the summarise tool, use a filter tool to filter out NULL records before passing the arguments to the batch macro

 

below are the templates you are creating using the blob tools, but I don't see them used in the subsequent containers

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