Challenge #39: Trouble Shooting a Broken Macro

[lindalo]

done!

[sonyakasenkramer]

That was a fun one! I love troubleshooting.

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[Simonvm9114]

Here's my solution

[andyjohnstone2]

After watching JoeM's excellent video on batch macros this was solvable for me:  https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Videos/Build-Your-First-Batch-Macro/td-p/52900.

[mceleavey]

For someone who writes broken macros all the time, this was straightforward, what with all the practise...

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So, the first error is an append error, which tells me there are more than 16 records to be appended. This is to prevent the Append tool creating a cartesian join and producing billions of rows in error. In this case we need to allows all appends:

The next problem was a missing field:

This is due to the fact that the fields "Open Date" and "Closed Date" had been converted and then re-named to "Open_Date" and "Closed_Date":

I simply dropped the underscore for these fields.

The next was another unknown field:

This was simply due to a missing bracket when denoting the column name:

I amended this to include the bracket after "[Close Date"

The next problem was there were no records being returned. This is because the date conversion tool was looking for the incorrect date format on the incoming field:

I changed the format to Month dd, yyyy which now matches the incoming date on both fields.

The final problem was the results were only being shown for one month. This is driven by the control parameter, and so this was not being passed through. This was due to the fact that the wireless connection on the action tool to the month input did not have a connection. I made the connection wired, attached the connector and this resolved the problem.

[hayley9]

Here is my solution.

[mpennington]

Solution attached.

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