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Challenge #19: Excel Record Locator

Kale_Malcom
8 - Asteroid
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DeniseF
Alteryx
Alteryx

Solution attached.

ascepkova002
8 - Asteroid

My solution

kelsey_kincaid
12 - Quasar

I scrolled through some of the other posted solutions and I must admit mine isn't the simplest. I love seeing how everyone else approaches the same problem, though. I definitely learned a lot from everyone on this one!

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Cosmin_S
8 - Asteroid

I included the initial solution into a batch macro that reads all .xls files from a directory and solves the requests. It was tested using 5 copies of the original .xls files and it runs with no errors. 

mpennington
11 - Bolide

Solution attached.  EDIT: I guessed there were better ways to do this and after looking through other solutions, I had to redo this with a shorter technique.  It is the solution at the bottom of the workflow image.  

 

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dhtay
8 - Asteroid

I tried to use dynamic input to solve this, but I couldn't find the option to include file name as a field.

The Input Data tool is more powerful than I thought!

ExploreMore
8 - Asteroid

My solution

RotesDB
8 - Asteroid
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Marcel_Gavrila
8 - Asteroid

I have to solutions for this challenge 🙂

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