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SUBMIT YOUR IDEAInteresting behaviour in the formula tool.
As an experiment: I introduced two new columns, Date_Out, and Date_out. The difference was the capital letter of O.
I thought I have to use a selection tool to get rid of the string field. But, Alteryx takes the first column's name+date type and 2nd column's value.
I know what I was doing is not a good practice, but the above behaviour might be a bug for Alteryx.
The reason, I created a second identical column, was because I thought I can change the type of data that way.
In the end, I combined the two formula.
For some reason the date converted to yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss (and i dont know how to change that) so i had to use the date time tool twice.
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