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itahir04
8 - Asteroid

Hi Team,

I have a Cell with 4 values in it.

AB
TestData1.0 Google
2.0 Yahoo
3.0 Amazon 

In Alteryx only first value is shown with a messgae: "This Cell has embeded newlines": 

I want an out put like:

AB
TestData1.0 Google
TestData2.0 Yahoo
TestData3.0 Amazon

 

How do I extract each Value from single cell and disply it in a separate row?

 

Thanks,

Rana

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Thableaus
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @itahir04 

 

You can use the Text to Columns Tool with \n as a delimiter, and split that to rows.

 

TexttoColumns.PNG

 

Cheers,

 

 

Treyson
13 - Pulsar
13 - Pulsar

Hello @itahir04 

 

I am unaware of any native way of pulling that value in all cells, but I looked at what Alteryx was doing when pulling those merged cells. It seems that the first cell is populated and the rest show as null. 

 

I have put in an example where we use the multirow tool in order to fill the nulls in with the values above using this formula.

 

if isnull([A]) then [Row-1:A] else [A] endif

 

See attached

Treyson Marks
Senior Analytics Engineer
NickSm
Alteryx
Alteryx

Hey @itahir04 

 

Should be as easy as using a Text-to-Columns and splitting that field to rows, with a delimiter of \n for new lines.

 

Capture1.JPG

 

 
itahir04
8 - Asteroid

Thank you So much!

itahir04
8 - Asteroid

Hi Tyson,

Can you please drop the screenshot of the workflow. I can't open this workflow, as you seems to have latest version of alteryx.

 

Thank you for looking into this.

Regards,

Rana

 

 

Treyson
13 - Pulsar
13 - Pulsar

To clarify, I think I misunderstood the original question. I thought you had a merged cell that you were trying to get the value of that merged cell into all the null cells that Alteryx reads it as. 

 

Multiline.PNG

 

 

Treyson Marks
Senior Analytics Engineer
nlgenin
7 - Meteor

Hello, my friend!

I'm have the same trouble although I need to do this with two columns, do you know how?

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