Study Interface Tools

[wenjuanchen]

Hi everyone,

Can anyone share some tips in learning the interface tools? If there are any practice questions, it will be great.

Thank you so much in advance.

[ivoller · Accepted solution]

There are Macro and App challenges in the weekly challenge at https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Weekly-Challenge/Weekly-Challenge-Index-amp-Welcome/td-p/48275

These are great for practicing and have the benefit that you can see how different people have taken different approaches to solve the same problem.

I also think that the scripting and automation tools section of the help samples are a great way to learn.

Searching the community pages for questions about macros will provide a lot of interesting real life problems that people have faced that have been answered with the use of macros. Most of these will have sample workflows including the interface tools.

Check out the Crew macros. Not only are they very useful but if you open them up (right-click on tool | Open) you'll see neat ways of implementing complex processes. A lot of the standard tools are also macros that you can open to inspect.

Finally, for me, the best way to learn was by taking a repetitive task and forcing myself to write a macro to do it. I found it quite frustrating to start with until I got the hang of it but very rewarding once I got something working.

Cheers,

Iain

[wenjuanchen]

Thanks @ivoller! This is very helpful!