The Product Idea boards have gotten an update to better integrate them within our Product team's idea cycle! However this update does have a few unique behaviors, if you have any questions about them check out our FAQ.

Alteryx Designer Desktop Ideas

Share your Designer Desktop product ideas - we're listening!
Submitting an Idea?

Be sure to review our Idea Submission Guidelines for more information!

Submission Guidelines

a tool to verify columns exist, fail to return error

i would like to have a tool to verify whether the columns are exist or not.

 

if all exist then pass

else return error and indicate the filename and column missing in error message.

 

it happen when we using server. the user come back with the missing variable.

but do not know what file are missing that columns.

Pang_Hee_Choy_0-1648448994672.png

so if possible, we may have error message like, column "Status" not exist in "Data.xlsx|||Sheet1".

 

Suggestion Config:  similar to rename tool, but express is error message

Pang_Hee_Choy_1-1648450357193.png

 

2 Comments
AlteryxCommunityTeam
Alteryx Community Team
Alteryx Community Team
Status changed to: Accepting Votes
 
MackStewart
8 - Asteroid

You need to specify which columns are expected.

You can do this with a text input and dynamic rename.

When you run the workflow, you get warnings listing which inputs are missing.