User Tools

Site Tools


transformations:cleanup
no way to compare when less than two revisions

Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.


Previous revision
Next revision
transformations:cleanup [2021/03/30 22:18] craigt
Line 1: Line 1:
 +{{ transformations:CleanUpAction.png}}
 +====== CLEAN UP ======
 +Category: Transform / Basic\\
  
 +\\ 
 +=====Description=====
 +This action removes specified values, or values of a particular type (e.g. text), from a column by replacing them with empty cells.
 +
 +Unlike [[transformations:selectionfilter|Filter]], this transformation doesn't remove table rows.
 + \\
 +
 +\\
 +=====Use cases=====
 +//Clean Up// is used for dealing with data quality issues - e.g. removing text values from a column where only numbers are expected, or removing specific undesired values. Most typically, //Clean Up// is used when importing data from Excel spreadsheets.\\
 +
 +\\ 
 +=====Action settings=====
 +^Setting^Description^
 +|Column|Select the specific column that values will be cleaned from.|
 +|Remove…|Select the types of values, or specific values, to be removed.  See below.|
 +\\ 
 +====Remove options====
 +^Option^Description^
 +|Remove numbers|All numeric values are removed.|
 +|Remove everything but numbers|All numbers are kept; non-numeric values are removed.|
 +|Remove text values|All text values are removed.|
 +|Remove everything but text values|Text values are kept; non-text values are removed.|
 +|Remove whitespace only values|Removes values containing only spaces.|
 +|Remove errors|All error results are removed.|
 +|Remove particular values|Options:  //Remove selected values// or //Remove all but selected// When selected, a list of all unique\\ values in the column is displayed for the user to manually select which values to keep or remove.|
 +
 +\\ 
 +=====Shortcuts=====
 +Fast ways to create the action:\\
 +  *Right-click a value and select "Clean Up" Choose whether to "Keep only [value]" or "Remove [value]" from the submenu.
 +
 +\\ 
 +=====See also=====
 +  * [[transformations:Replace|Replace]]
transformations/cleanup.txt · Last modified: 2024/04/12 00:35 by craigt

Donate Powered by PHP Valid HTML5 Valid CSS Driven by DokuWiki