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Isolating field discrepancies between records with the same ID?

DataDaemon
7 - Meteor

Hello All!

 

Curious if anyone knows of a way to isolate data discrepancies when record IDs are grouped and summarized? My apologies in advance because I don't know what a good output would even look like in the solution to this problem.

 

I am summarizing lists where I group by [Record Type] and use the “first” occurrence on a sorted sheet to ensure that I summarize to the parent data on my output – however, does anyone have a creative way to isolate what records have discrepancies of the fields being summarized? 

 

Say the below is the input file:

 

Table (A)

Record IDRecord TypeNameDataBillable
1ParentJim Store Primeabc5
1ChildJim Store Aabc5
1ChildJim Store Bdef10
2ParentFred Store Primexyz10
2ChildFred Store Axyz10
3ParentHank Store Primenop5
3ChildHank Store Aqrs10

 

Turns into this:

 

Table (B)

RecordRecord TypeNameDataBillable
1ParentJim Store Primeabc20
2ParentFred Store Primexyz20
3ParentHank Store Primenop15

 

This is where I've hit a creativity mental block...

 

Is there a good/viable/creative way to call out the Child accounts in Table (A) that don't match the [Data] field of their parent (an example being Jim Store B [Data] is 'def' rather than 'abc')?  My goal is to be able to locate the Parent and Child [Record Type] accounts that have a different [Data] value to begin the process of correcting them in an external system.

 

I sincerely appreciate the help and insights you all provide on a daily basis! Thank you!

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ivoller
12 - Quasar

 

 

Not sure I completely understand the requirement. See attached for an example flow though. If this is insufficient I'm confident that something can be done with the multi row formula tool.

 

Cheers,

Iain

 

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Joe_Mako
12 - Quasar

In your Summarize tool you could add a Count Distinct on your Data field, for example:

 

test count.png

 

Then you can add logic to text for when that count is greater than one. In the attached, I used a Message tool.

DataDaemon
7 - Meteor

This is such a simple way to identify them in summary, thank you!

 

Do you think there is a way to have it point out which child is the "incorrect" one, like in the case of [Record ID] 1? 

Joe_Mako
12 - Quasar

A Join tool could pull those records out:

test count2.png

 

An you can use another Join to pull in the Parent data as well:

test count3.png

 

see the attached for details.

 

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