Offset Column

About Offset Column

Offset Column takes the contents of a selected column and repeats it in a new column, offsetting the values by one row up or down.

Example

Offset Column is useful for deriving the upper or lower bounds of a range, where only one of those values has been supplied. In this example, only the lower bound of the range has been provided in the ‘From’ column.

To produce an upper bound in a ‘To’ column, the ‘From’ column is offset up one row and the blank value at the bottom is populated with the value 100,000. The first value in the ‘From’ column will be clipped off when data is offset into the ‘To’ column.

This is achieved with the following script:

offsetColumn:
   offset: -1
   source: From
   target: To
   placeholderValue: 100000

Using Offset Column

1. Select ‘Script’ from the Operations menu.
2. Open the script operation, copy the following script and paste it into the script editor:

offsetColumn:
   offset: 1
   source: Source column name
   target: New column name
   placeholderValue:

3. Modify the default values to suit your use case.

Offset

An offset value of ‘1’ will move the values in the column down by one row, a value of ‘-1’ will move them up by one row.

Source Column

The column that the new column will be derived from.

Target

The new column containing the offset rows.

Placeholder value

Optional. If a value is entered here, it will populate the blank value created at the start or end of the new column.