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!
The Product Idea boards have gotten an update to better integrate them within our Product team's idea cycle! However this update does have a few unique behaviors, if you have any questions about them check out our FAQ.

Alteryx Designer Desktop Ideas

Share your Designer Desktop product ideas - we're listening!
Submitting an Idea?

Be sure to review our Idea Submission Guidelines for more information!

Submission Guidelines

a formula tool that can refer to multiple field and dynamic field

can we have a formula tool to refer multiple field (especially dynamic as well) 

 

Pang_Hee_Choy_6-1634812704066.png

 

i KNOWN we can use transpose and crosstab tool. but it silly to do one thing with two tool.

 

Problem

 

To sum all the fields in the file. so now is A-D. 

 

Pang_Hee_Choy_1-1634811729918.png

 

I can use formula tool to do it. easy. But, what if fields add / delete frequently?

Pang_Hee_Choy_2-1634811746685.png

 

Now, it sum A-E, what if G-F tomorrow, and B-Z after tomorrow, i do not want to update workflow every time.

Pang_Hee_Choy_3-1634811821262.png

 

suggestion :

I hope we have a tool that similar to multiple field tool, but it output to a new field only.

Pang_Hee_Choy_5-1634812692162.png

 

I KNOWN SUM() is not alteryx function but just an example. we can expand further other formula for string and date.

 

 

 

 

2 Comments
CristonS
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

thanks for your feedback @Pang_Hee_Choy, that would certainly be a robust feature!

AlteryxCommunityTeam
Alteryx Community Team
Alteryx Community Team
Status changed to: Accepting Votes