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Challenge #117: Credit/Debit Midpoints

leesin
7 - Meteor
 
kcgreen
8 - Asteroid

The hardest part for me was understanding the request.  Once I wrapped my head around what was needed, the Alteryx workflow was pretty straightforward.

 

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joe_yang
6 - Meteoroid

I tired to do it w/o the Running Total tool but it wouldn't work w/o a long massive conditional statement.  The Running Total tool keeps the workflow code-free :)   Here is my version to the solutionCapture.PNG

ivoller
12 - Quasar

Sledgehammer approach :-) Used nasty multi formula.

 

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joe_yang
6 - Meteoroid

I like it! My first attempt was very similar but you are a better man for sledgehammering it in to make it work. :) That switch function is sweet!

mmongeon
8 - Asteroid

Here is my solution

 

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mceleavey
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Fantastic challenge. I actually struggled with this one and I feel there are better ways to do this. 

 

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Mine is almost exactly the same as @NicoleJohnson and I must give her a shout out for having a much better solution at the beginning of the workflow with the use of the "Make Columns" tool. Mine used a clunky multi-field formula, so I stole hers. Shameless.

Anyway, I couldn't think of any other way to do this other than parsing to columns, getting a running total for each account, reversing the sorting, getting a running total the other way, then filtering those records where these running totals were equal.
Not very complex, but neither is my brain.

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Bulien

joe_yang
6 - Meteoroid

If the sledgehammer approach is fair game, here is mine:

 

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Natasha
9 - Comet

Here is my solution using a macro. Looking now at all the nice Running Total solutions, mine looks like a monster. Also felt a bit like adding some checks to the workflow so I am checking that the total number of credits/debits against the account equals to the total number of actual transactions per account.

 

 

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GalynaSkamrova
7 - Meteor

My solution, appeared to be similar to some posted earlier

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