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Upgrading your Alteryx Server environment often means performing a sequence of delicate steps—one misconfiguration, missed backup, or delayed manual hand-off can derail the entire process. That’s why our team developed a new automated script to automate the Server host recovery process that may be required during an…
Regularly on the community, there are questions about how many working days there are between two dates. While Alteryx now offers a DatetimeWorkdays function in the formula tool (for 2025.1), it doesn’t take into consideration bank/public holidays. I wanted to write a blog about how you could generate a list of working…
If you've ever struggled with managing the order of operations in your processes, the Control Container tool is here to help! Why Use Control Containers? Are you curious about how this tool can be useful in your workflow and what benefits it offers? Let me highlight three major advantages that you can't ignore: 1. It…
by Kiran Manjunatha and Bhumika Agarwal (@BA02) Once upon a time, before you read this awesome article: Stakeholder: “Hey! Can you create merge cells column headers like we do in Excel? That would be super helpful.” Alteryx developer: I know how to merge row cells from Part 1. But merging columns is still a mystery to me.…
We all love the CrossTab tool right? Right? Except maybe for that annoying quirk where it changes all non alphanumeric characters in your new field names to underscores. Spaces, special characters, not so special characters, anything that is not a letter or a number just becomes an underscore.This Becomes this ... where…
Auto Documentation Tool Say someone built an Alteryx workflow at your company. What does it do exactly? How does it work? Can you trace it step by step? And just how did they configure these pieces? As data analysts and engineers, we take it for granted that we can readily convey our understanding of data flows to other…
Background information & the standard Output Data approach Whilst outputting the results of a workflow, we often find ourselves publishing to an Excel spreadsheet. At times, this also involves splitting our data into separate sheets within the Excel file. When dealing with regular, unformatted results, the standard Output…
Once you have downloaded Alteryx Designer and the software installation is complete, you can initiate the license. This should have been received by email, usually from the Fulfillment address <fulfillment@alteryx.com>. Pro tip: save your license key in a text file in a location you'll remember, for safekeeping. Once you…
by Kiran Manjunatha and Bhumika Agarwal (@BA02) Once upon a time, before you read this awesome article: Stakeholder: “Hey! Can you merge those cells like we do in our Excel workbooks? Also, providing a common header would be a good idea too.” Alteryx developer: “Naah, I don’t think so. Not possible using Alteryx.” Source:…
Introduction One of the best features of Alteryx is the ability to create a self-service app. With a simple workflow, you can help turn what could be a manual, tedious process for the business into an automated one that can be completed in seconds versus minutes or hours. While the immediate benefit of an app is saving…
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