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Challenge #19: Excel Record Locator

Bluemoon
8 - Asteroid

Deceptively tricky...

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saurabh307singh
8 - Asteroid
 
DuncanT
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Here's my challenge 19 solution

SueDonim
8 - Asteroid

 

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Had to learn a few things about using wildcards but here you go :
- Read in data from both spreadsheets by replacing filename with wildcard
  -- Also had to convert to .xlsx as a security patch on my computer would not allow reading .xls for some reason
- Used multi-row tool to number records (off Excel row number by 1 due to header) for each spreadsheet
- Used two filters to read Row 2 (linenumber 1) from both files and to read Row 8 (linenumber 7) from both files
- Used select tool to isolate and rename specific columns
- Used Join to bring the two together

 
 

Solution above and attached

 

jusdespommes
8 - Asteroid

Definitely a prettier way of doing it than I did it - but done 🙂

 

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Si-Pri
8 - Asteroid
 
ArnavS
Alteryx
Alteryx
 
Nicholas_Bowskill
7 - Meteor
 
Assaf_m
11 - Bolide

Solution attached,

 

aazimh
8 - Asteroid

Was worried I took the long way but seems like this is how most went about it.