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Challenge #17: Month-over-Month Retention Rate

KOBoyle
11 - Bolide

Solution attached. In the macro I used a slight variation from what others have shown in that I passed the control parameter directly into the Formula tool rather than passing it to a Text Input and then using the Append Tool. 

JoBen
11 - Bolide

Cheers!

DavidP
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

The most difficult part for me was figuring out the correct condition for defining the Open column for each year! Nice compact solution once I got that bit right!!!

 

I still think that it's really cool that you can update just about anything you want in pretty much any tool with the Action Tool!!!

 

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yavdaanalytics
8 - Asteroid

attached my solution

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nnilz
8 - Asteroid

Difficult to understand the question and this became more an exercise on learning about batch macros. Solution attached

pasccout
8 - Asteroid

Here is my solution...

 

Had to figure out that the account still needs to be opened in the current month...

 

 

jbranaum
8 - Asteroid

Here is my solution.

 

Good exercise to practice batch macros!

 

Thanks!

archietao
8 - Asteroid

still have trouble using Batch Macro. Had the same problem as Challenge #11. 

 

Solved this without a macro but will try to figure out how Batch macro works later. 

 

archietao
8 - Asteroid

Solution with a Batch Macro! 

Karam
8 - Asteroid

Great practice!