Workflow Error

[am_cook]

Hello,

I'm building a report based on a workflow that I've created. However, I've run into an issue as some data entries in one of my data fields has NAs in it. As I've selected this data field to be 'Double' type, it is now coming up with the below error message.

Please could someone advise on how to resolve this error message?

Thanks in advance!

[Jonathan-Sherman · Accepted solution]

Hi @am_cook,

That's a data type conversion warning message and not an error, it wouldn't have any impact on your workflow. It's simply saying "I can't convert to a numeric data type (because i'm N/A)" so it should convert to NULL. You can then convert those NULL values to 0's (using data cleansing tool for example or just leave as NULL.

If this solves your issue please mark the answer as correct, if not let me know!

Regards,

Jonathan 

[PhilipMannering]

You are trying to convert a string to a double and Alteryx is complaining. The easiest solution (to avoid this warning) is use a Data Cleanse Tool and select to remove letters.

[messi007]

@am_cook,

As Na is a String value my suggestion is to use filter in order to do the conversion:

Attached the workflow,

Regards

[Jonathan-Sherman]

Just a note for @messi007 and @am_cook,

I wouldn't take the approach of filtering out N/A values, changing the data type for only numbers and combining back together because when you combine back into one column (in this case with a union) you can only have one data type, and since you have numeric and string values in the same field it will revert to a string data type (as it can hold numeric and strings whilst a numeric cannot hold both numeric and string values). This is the exact same data type you had to start with.

You can see this with your workflow @messi007, if I add a select tool after your union the field is still a string so the values are the same as before.

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Jonathan