Supported Data Types
This section provides information on supported data types in Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta Enterprise Edition.
Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta Enterprise Edition supports the following data types.
Tip
Transforms that include functions work only if the inputs are of a data type and format valid for the function. You should clean up the type and format of your columns before you apply transformations to them.
Supported Data Types
Item | Description |
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Any non-null value can be typed as String. A String can be anything. | |
The Integer data type applies to positive and negative numeric values that have no decimal point. | |
Decimal data type applies to floating points up to 15 digits in length.
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The Boolean data type expresses true or false values. | |
This data type is applied to numeric data following the pattern for United States Social Security numbers. | |
This data type is applied to numeric data following common patterns that express telephone numbers and known valid phone numbers in the United States. | |
This data type matches text values that are properly formatted email addresses. | |
Credit card numbers are numeric data that follow the 14-digit or 16-digit patterns for credit cards. | |
This data type matches a variety of text patterns for expressing male/female distinctions. | |
This data type matches five- and nine-digit U.S. zipcode patterns. | |
State data type is applied to data that uses the full names or the two-letter abbreviations for states in the United States. | |
An Object data type is a method for encoding key-value pairs. A single field value may contain one or more sets of key-value pairs. | |
An array is a list of values grouped into a single value. An array may be of variable length; in one record the array field may contain two elements, while in the next record, it contains six elements. | |
The IP Address data type supports IPv4 address. | |
URL data type is applied to data that follows generalized patterns of URLs. | |
Values of these data types are three-digit numeric values, which correspond to recognized HTTP Status Codes. | |
Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta Enterprise Edition supports a variety of Datetime formats, each of which has additional variations to it. |
Custom Types
If you have created a custom type, it is available for selection from the column type drop-down.
Note
After a custom type has been created, a platform restart is required. Please contact your Alteryx administrator.
Developers may also define custom data types using regular expressions. See Create Custom Data Types Using RegEx.