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How to duplicate and shift columns

bruno_
6 - Meteoroid

Hey guys, I'm struggling with this operation in Alteryx and I would be very grateful if someone could help me. I tried to use formula, multi-field formula, multi-row formula but couldn't make it so far. 

 

It is just a meaningless example below, but I want to duplicate columns from A to C, giving them a new name (in the example newA, newB and newC) and shifting them down like this:

newA  = A shifted down by 0 cell 

newB = B shifted down by 1 cell  

newC = C shifted down by 2 cells

and so on...

 

Also, where might be Blanks or Nulls in consequence of the shifting, I want to put a 0.   

 

Before

NameABC
Name11611
Name22712
Name33813
Name44914
Name551015

 

After

NameABCnewAnewBnewC
Name11611100
Name22712260
Name338133711
Name449144812
Name5510155913
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AngelosPachis
16 - Nebula

Hi @bruno_ ,

 

EDIT : missed the shift part

 

One way would be with a multi-field formula tool

 

AngelosPachis_0-1613154748473.png

 

 

Regards,

 

Angelos

pedrodrfaria
13 - Pulsar

Hi @bruno_ 

 

See the solution below:

 

pedrodrfaria_0-1613154808234.png

Pedro.

bruno_
6 - Meteoroid

Ok, it works for the duplication, but what about the conditional shifting?

pedrodrfaria
13 - Pulsar

Hi @bruno_ 

 

I'm not sure you are responding to my post or the one above. But for the solution I provided, did I get the shifting logic incorrectly?

 

Pedro.

bruno_
6 - Meteoroid

Thanks guys @AngelosPachi and @pedrodrfaria.

 

Your worfklow worked, Pedro.

 

I just have another issue: what if the number of columns are bigger? I have to do this operation in dozens of columns and with this program I would have to use the Multi-row formula tool dozens of times. Is there any other way?

AngelosPachis
16 - Nebula

Hi @bruno_ ,

 

Sorry for missing that, here is a better solution than the one I provided earlier. This one actually does what you have asked, and will work for any number of columns.

AngelosPachis_0-1613155547809.png

 

 

Cheers,

 

Angelos

 

bruno_
6 - Meteoroid

Thanks!! 

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