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Constants Mapping

Krish
8 - Asteroid

I have around 100 hardcoded fields like in the following format (in excel file)

 

Field  Value

 

abc   100

xyz    200

 

with the text input pointing to this excel Can I map the values against another set of column in formula expression?

 

Thanks,

Krishna

 

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MarqueeCrew
20 - Arcturus
20 - Arcturus

@Krish,

 

Yes you can!

 

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The upper input has 3 records with data.  The lower input has 100 field value pairs as you described in your post.  What I've done is used a CROSSTAB to turn the 100 values into a single row.  I then append those 100 fields to EVERY record.  Now you can use a formula and reference the data.  Later you can SELECT and remove those fields.

 

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Mark

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Krish
8 - Asteroid

Thanks for the update.

 I could flip the table as needed.But problem is with the renaming of fields.

 

Like 

I have source table like this:

 

-1:RECORD_TYPE100
3:ACCT_STATUSIncomplete

With the cross table output it converts as follows:

 

_1_RECORD_TYPE3_ACCOUNT_STATUS
100Incomplete


But I  need 

 

-1:RECORD_TYPE3:ACCOUNT_STATUS
100Incomplete

 

 I have seen options like Dynamic rename and Regex .But I am little confused why - is converted to _

Thanks in advance.

 

 

MarqueeCrew
20 - Arcturus
20 - Arcturus

Krish,

 

I solved that with a dynamic rename.  I didn't use the RegEx path, but used the rename from rows of data (table).  I created a table of converted (_) names and original fields using a POSITIONAL join.  That table of changes was used in the rename tool to reverse the naming.  For anyone using a crosstab who does not want to see the underscores replacing their spaces or special characters, this could work.

 

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Cheers,

Mark

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Krish
8 - Asteroid

thank you for the explanation.

I could not open sample solution throws error:" Was created by recent version and cannot be read"

MarqueeCrew
20 - Arcturus
20 - Arcturus

@Krish,

 

You're using an older version (10.x) of Alteryx.  You are missing out!

 

Cheers,

Mark

Alteryx ACE & Top Community Contributor

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Krish
8 - Asteroid

Hi  Mark,

 

 

I will  start upgrading my version.

Tried the given steps. It worked as expected.

thanks a lot

 

Krish

Krish
8 - Asteroid

I tried the steps given.

It worked as expected.

 

Thanks a lot.

 

Krish

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