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Macro that checks location field in the data to see if it is in the USA or international

backrocket
7 - Meteor

I am trying to build a Macro that checks to the see the location in the incoming data, which is provided to us in State abbreviations or foreign country. My idea is to build a macro, that will check the data and compare it to a list of all 51 state abbrevations, if the state abbreviations does not show up in the data, then I want to classify it as a international. The example is below

 

Incoming Sample Data:

State/Location
CA
CA
CA
CA
MA
MA
MA
FG
NH
NH
NH
NH
India
Mexico
MA

 

Output data:

State/LocationLocation FORMATTED
CACA
CACA
CACA
CACA
MAMA
MAMA
MAMA
FGFG
NHNH
NHNH
NHNH
NHNH
IndiaInternational
MexicoInternational
MAMA

 

As of right now I developed a Macro, that has a list of all the 51 states as a control parameter, I then use a action tool to update the State in the Action tool. 

 

When I run the Macro, I notice that it filters correctly for the states, but does not output any data that is classified as "International"

 

Any help on this would be helpful.

 

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I have attached all the US states Abbreviation 

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Claje
14 - Magnetar

Hi,


For an example like this I would go with a different macro design, using Find/Replace.  I've attached an example of this macro.

 

One of the cool features of Find/Replace is that it can append a field when it finds a match.  So I set this up to compare your list of all states against any incoming data, and then used a formula to replace null values with the word International.

 

You could change the input of all states to be a secondary macro input as well if you want the user to be able to select their own custom list of valid values.

 

Hope this helps!

backrocket
7 - Meteor

Thank you so much! this helps alot, especially allowing the user to have the flexibility to have their own inputs.

 

Appreciate it.

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