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Challenge #41: Analytics PayPeriodCalc

willstom1
8 - Asteroid

Here is my solution:

 

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OldDogNewTricks
10 - Fireball

I'm still learning Alteryx, but I was shocked to find out that there wasn't a built-in function for this.  I thought about using generate rows, but that seemed like overkill; so I googled.

 

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Thanks to this post (link) I was able to calculate it a formula tool.
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Seems like this should be standard in Alteryx.

MattKing
8 - Asteroid

this was a though one!

 

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kat
12 - Quasar
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danrh
13 - Pulsar
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gmartin
7 - Meteor

Shout out to Tool Mastery | Generate Rows for the helping solve this one. Glad there were more efficient solutions out there.

 

Here is my solution!

 

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creasa17
5 - Atom
 
Inactive User
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jeniferpeden
7 - Meteor
 
Vinutha
8 - Asteroid

Used the Formula tool Parse the date and month and get weekdays