Community Spring Cleaning week is here! Join your fellow Maveryx in digging through your old posts and marking comments on them as solved. Learn more here!

Alteryx Designer Desktop Discussions

Find answers, ask questions, and share expertise about Alteryx Designer Desktop and Intelligence Suite.
SOLVED

Data not joining correctly in my workflow.

LWHITTAKER001
6 - Meteoroid

I have a workflow I am working on where I am trying to use a Join tool to join the data based on a Return ID, but it doesn't seem to be working for some reason and I am stumped. I have successfully done a similar workflow with similar data, so I'm not sure what I am doing wrong in this instance. I have included the two data sets and the piece of the workflow below.

 

Thanks!

7 REPLIES 7
DavidP
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

The problem is that Dataset 1 starts with 2017i  whereas Dataset 2 starts with 2017I.

estherb47
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

Hi @LWHITTAKER001 

 

It's a fussy one. Case doesn't match in both fields. Drop a Data Cleansing tool after the data source 1, and change the Return ID to be Uppercase.

Cheers!

Esther

DavidP
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Adding an Uppercase formula sorts it out.

 

uppercase.png

estherb47
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

I wonder which is faster, the formula tool or the Data Cleansing?

Both do the same thing. Go with whatever you're more comfortable with.

image.png

LWHITTAKER001
6 - Meteoroid

Thanks y'all! I went with the Data Cleansing tool as you suggested. I didn't realize how finicky it was with case since I'm a bit of a novice. Appreciate your help!

estherb47
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

Any time!!! Ask a question here, and you'll get lots of approaches to a solution.

If you wouldn't mind, marking our solutions as accepted is helpful for us, and for people seeking answers/seeking to help answer. Thanks!!!

 

Cheers,

Esther

DavidP
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

@estherb47, I've always overlooked that box in the Data Cleanse tool! 

 

I won't forget about it again!

Labels