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Challenge #28: Formatting Financial Data

wdavis
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Slightly different method to some of top responses, using Select Records tool and Text to Columns to pull out the date


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RWvanLeeuwen
Bolide

I almost forgot about this being a potential use case for dynamic field selection... whoops... spoiler alert!

 


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joemkcarr
Asteroid

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My solution 🙂


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phottovy
13 - Pulsar
13 - Pulsar

Definitely need some creativity to solve this one.


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Greg_Murray
Quasar

Solution attached


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myastarling
Bolide

this was super fun!


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sahinakos
Asteroid

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Shaun_Rheeder
Asteroid

Happy I did it.


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ZenonH
Asteroid

Clearing out some challenges I had started but never finished. 


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