Alteryx Community Ideas

Searching for ideas on the Alteryx Community isn’t very convenient, as has been mentioned many times. But what if AI could be used to organize ideas more effectively?  Specifically for Designer Desktop Ideas, AI could assign each idea to the right tool, making it easier to browse and see what the community is discussing about each one.It could also help users compare their new idea with existing ones, which is an important requirement in the Community Guidelines. Some ideas are not tied to a specific tool, but to menu options or configuration settings — AI could classify those accordingly. Since a single tool can have many related ideas it might be worth going a step further: Ideas could be grouped not only by tools, but also by specific settings within each tool. Ideas more general  than a specific setting of a tool could be grouped separately. While browsing, users could see similar ideas highlighted. And additionally, after browsing through grouped ideas, when a user decides to post a new idea, AI could automatically check the text against all existing ideas and show similar ones. And while the last step could be enough to prevent duplicate ideas, the ability to browse them conveniently is still important for exploring discussions around ideas for interesting tools and topics. (Similar ideas don’t always mean they’re identical; sometimes they just offer different approaches or broader or narrower views of the same problem.) Of course, this is just a broad concept that would need to take many different factors into account. I have created a small prototype in Figma just to play around with the concept and visualize how this might roughly look. When ideas are grouped by tools and their settings, I believe the easiest and most intuitive menu would be one similar to the Alteryx interface. You can try figma prototype using this link: https://tinyurl.com/275tr3kn   In this example, you can explore ideas for the Find Replace tool, organized by tool settings: “General Ideas” (ideas that are more general and not about a specific setting) Find Replace Found Text with Value Append Field(s) to Records Options / Export Workflows menu shows an example of an idea linked not to a specific tool, but to a particular menu category. By clicking “Suggest an Idea” you can go to the idea posting section and “check” a sample idea for similarity.   Proposal to organize ideas by tools was posted some years ago. The idea was recognized as valuable but challenging to implement, so it was declined. However, the possibilities of AI might allow us to approach this idea differently.  https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Community-Ideas/Categorize-Product-Ideas-by-Tool/idi-p/783792 ... View more

Hi all!   Right now, we have product focused certifications that showcases one's skills with Alteryx products. But, being proficient in the product itself does not necessarily mean that the certified individual is a good trainer for others to learn.    Having a trainer certification pathway will be great! It gives trainers access to certain Alteryx training material, and helps provide some credentials to trainers to be "official" and endorsed by Alteryx itself.    Of course, to attend these Train the Trainer and certification stages, I think it needs to be paid for rather than free to ensure commitment and some degree of investment on part of the applicant.    These Train the Trainer certifications can be renewed, and based off where the user's regions are.    Hope this works!   -Cal ... View more

I posted on the general sub here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/General-Discussions/Machine-Learning-Fundamentals/td-p/1150799   Thanks @Alayna for requesting that I post it here.    I will split this Idea into 2 sections: #1 Learning Paths for ML  We currently don't have much options when it comes to learning how to utilize ML in itself + how to use the tools in Alteryx. The standard R Tools like:   These tools don't really have a learning path to them, and they are more towards end users who already know how to utilize them. It would be good if there was training or education material on them with the Alteryx context so that users can pick them up and start using them.    Currently, the learning paths available for ML are the Intelligence Suite, which is an add-on that Alteryx has. Not everyone has access to the Intelligence Suite, and more people would have access to the standard R Tools upon download. It would be good to have a focus area on them as well, and to make a whole theme around them too. #2 Certification Right now, we have the Micro-Certification for Machine Learning (Free):     and also the Predictive Master Certification (paid):   Connecting to Point #1, there's a big jump from Micro to Expert without anything in between. I think where the Core/Advanced equivalents for ML/Predictive is to touch on the basic areas of the R Tools, and then test on theory as well.    Alteryx can partner up with institutions dedicated to teaching data science so that they can make this happen.    I welcome all the community members to chime in on this and add-on to the idea in the comments down below as well.     Thanks, Cal ... View more

Hello all, My goal today was to work on Alteryx Designer Cloud (the "new" one, not Trifacta). I began this path https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Learning-Paths/Designer-Cloud-Core-Trifacta-Classic/ta-p/1045768 but what a deception ! It's about the Trifacta. Do I miss something ? We all have understood Alteryx Cloud is your priority but building documentation, tutorials, certifications is not exactly an option if you want to seduce customers and partners. Best regards, Simon ... View more

TWIMC,   I am taking a new position with a different company and therefore will have a new email. I would like to have the access to all of the posts and knowledge accociated with my current postition's e-mail. However, at this point, the only way to associate with a new e-mail is to create a new community account. This means I will lose all the inertia associated with my old account-- what a bummer!    Cheers,    John ... View more

Problem:  We are finding many discussion posts solutions that either are exactly the same as a previous solution on the same question or slightly different and in addition they are being marked as solutions. This doesn't help the community if there is no premium on either expanding significantly on the previous answer or answering completely differently but also correctly. Users are being rewarded on just posting an answer not on posting a thoughtful, useful, and correct answer.   Solution: Stack overflow as an example handles this quite nicely in that they offer many different responses but also with the ability to upvote OR downvote a response. This would radically improve the responses along with the metrics that guide many other programs in play on the community.       ... View more

I've posted here on the General sub: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/General-Discussions/Collect-Team-Alteryx-Data-for-Internal-KPIs/td-p/1159655   First off, I would like to thank @simonaubert_bd for his fantastic workflow. He has put together a workflow that scrapes through the Alteryx community profile to gather all the badges one has acquired.    I've added on to his version by picking out the User ID and User Rank as well for a full view.    It would be great if this could be packaged into the Alteryx workflow as part of the Alteryx Designer app so that users everywhere can benefit from this.    The benefits are most profound when you want: A way to measure your team's Alteryx progress via the Community Marking it as part of a KPI as part of performance reviews or to serve as justification to maintain license Of course, there are many more reasons and I am sure that the community will improve on the workflow further to include other items as well.    A time-series component of when the badges were earned or even user activeness in postings, comments, likes, etc. can also be measured.    There's a thousand ways to take this, and I think it is worth sharing with the community as an idea!   Thanks all!   -Cal ... View more

Hello all, The process for updating Ideas status looks like a mess : -Some ideas are implemented but not updated (I had to PM @JessL who nicely did it). And since the release notes are not complete as well, I wasn't aware one my ideas was released until a friend of mine showed me it works ! -Some ideas (at least several dozens) are Under review or Accepted for several years (more than 4 years) Ideas status are very important for me, it gives customers an idea of the roadmap. This also helps to know where a release will bring features we need. So please bring up to date status and maybe more transparency on how you deal wih ideas. Best regards, Simon ... View more

I think it would be great to have badge(s) for the interactive lessons. They are a really great tool for people to learn about the tool, so badges could recognize folks who've invested the time to complete it.   ... View more

Hi,   This idea isn't my own. If I remembered correctly, it was mentioned by @MarqueeCrew. I hope he will not have anything against me posting it here In short, we don't have functionality in the community that would allow us to follow specific users. I think we have a couple of stars in the community that share quality content, and it would be amazing to receive a notification if they started a new topic or post a new article. To my best knowledge, functionality like this should be relatively easy to implement, and it would allow us to learn best practices from those stars that we are following. ... View more

Hello Community ! The idea for this post is to release functionality within the Alteryx community to reinforce the importance of marking posts as resolved once an answer has been provided. Some of the most active community members provide responses to posts numerous times a day, with no succinct ability to identify which responses were accepted as solutions, which in turn leads to many posts with received responses (many with correct responses) but those may not be marked as solutions.   I'd propose creating functionality within the "my recent activity" to filter by solutions where a user has provided a response, but the overall thread has no responses marked as resolved. This would allow community members who are assisting others, to ensure their questions have been answered by giving the ability to easily follow up if needed. By doing this, the idea would be to nudge the community to mark additional responses as resolved to improve the future finding solutions in the future.     As a second recommendation perhaps push notification reminders could also be sent to members of the community posing the questions. If a post has received responses but none have been marked as a solution, perhaps a push notification could be sent to the user prompting them to review the responses. From there, an answer could be marked as accepted, or the submitter of the question could flag that they have not yet received an answer that matches their question. Here I am thinking of functionality similar to facebook marketplace where a seller receives a message like the below after a period of time:           ... View more

Hi Team,   Most of our Alteryx users have reached out to us with this issue in File browse tool - How to not have a user prompted to select a sheet name when uploading an Excel file to Alteryx Server.   It works as expected when we using in Alteryx Designer Analytic app, but it's not working on Alteryx Server.   So, we request you to add this feature in the upcoming Alteryx Server releases.   Thank you ! ... View more

Currently you can filter for all boards for posts with no responses, but you can't apply that to specific boards.   Could this be added? Can help identify those that haven't had any help yet (and similarly those that don't have a solution yet) ... View more

So - there's a well known principle in psychology that people behave differently when they are asked "do you like A" "do you like B" - vs. when you say "if you can only have one - which will you pick".      This is an important principle for Agile Product Owners because asking your users "do you support this feature" will essentially provide a popularity score - but tells you nothing about which are the most important features to your user base. Where saying to users "Pick your top 5 from this list, in order" - will give you a VERY different result because now people need to think "Sure I'd like this feature, but if I had to pick, it's not on my top 5".     TLDR: the best way to gauge importance (vs popularity) is asking users to force-rank with constraints.   So the idea is to provide Alteryx users on the Maveryx community the ability to select their top 5 features / ideas that they would like to see.    This can be done programmatically in a very easy way by looking at the ideas that get more than X votes, and then adding them to the list.        The real benefit of this is that the Product Managers at Alteryx get a very clear sense of the most useful / important features - and perhaps more importantly the Maveryx will say "I made that happen" which creates a real sense of ownership & stickiness in the product among the userbase.   cc: @NicoleJohnson @NicoleJ @jarrodthuener @stevea @mbaerend  ... View more

It is nice how typing the @ symbol brings up a list of users already on a post that you're replying to. This makes tagging people quick and easy.    Sometimes the list of users that have replied to a post is greater than the subset sample shown in this dropdown, however. In this case, you can start typing and the results do update, but it seems to return the best match from the Community at large. If I want to tag someone from this particular post I'm replying to, I often have to type out nearly the whole name before it is able to narrow down the search results to the user I want. I would love to be able to start typing just the first two characters of a username and have the list update while prioritizing the users relevant to the post.    Just typing @:     After typing pa:     How many letters I had to type out before finally getting the result for the user who actually made the post I'm replying to:     ... View more

It would be nice if the answers marked as solved were highlighted a little better. Currently, there is a little checkbox next to the start of the answer which can be hard to see when scrolling a longer list of answers. It would be nice if the answer was promoted to the top and also highlighted all in green (or at least a border.) that way it will be apparent when browsing through the chatter.  ... View more

Thanks to @gautiergodard for showing me the SparkED Job Board!   Introduction I was actually curious about Alteryx freelance roles in general and what practices are in place for people hiring in terms of data security. That prompted me to post on the General forum here.   I was then led to the SparkED Job Board by Gautier, and I will be honest, it was somewhat difficult for me to find the Job Board through self navigation. Once I found it, I am quite disappointed that the Job Board is not very active nor user friendly to both job posters and hunters.    It is difficult to find Alteryx specific roles, and it is sometimes also difficult to hire for Alteryx specific persons (one problem I am facing at the moment).    But then it dawned on me. Alteryx is partnered with many companies - some as vendors selling + using Alteryx for their own clients, and some with direct clients. Surely they must be needing some talent - and with Alteryx having a worldwide reach, surely many partners would be interested in utilizing this free source.    My Ideas I think it will be useful to split my idea into a few sections so that it can be seen more holistically.    #1 Change the Name, Function & Location of the Job Board Right now, the SparkED Job Board's path is through Community -> Learn -> SparkED Education -> Job Board.   Based on some of the postings there, it seems that the need of people posting tends to sway more to hiring people with some years of experience with Alteryx + general Data Engineering and Data Science skills. It would be more beneficial to put it under its own category in the tabs above like so: Doing so makes it more prominent, easier to find, and could bring more clicks in.    #2 Change UI/UX of Job Board The current Job Board looks like this:   Some tweaks to make it more Job post-and-search friendly would be: Changing "Create an article" to "Create a Job Posting". Having a direct "Apply" button that notifies the creator of the Job Posting that the user has applied. A good resume would be the Alteryx Community profile itself. The badges, profile activeness, certifications, ideas, and user ranks are all things that can be used to gauge a profile. It can also include links to your LinkedIn, GitHub, or any page that has your work on it.  The box view currently is hard to see. It would be great if a company name or project name can be seen first + a logo, role name second, location preference, Remote/On-Site, and salary range / project price range is visible in smaller boxes would be more captivating and easier to go through. It is also helpful to categorize the job post as either a full-time, part-time, contractual, project, ad-hoc, or training role. Have a filter function on top that covers the field mentioned in the previous point + a search bar would be great as well! #3 Posting Rights Just as how we post Blog articles on Alteryx, it can be moderated by the Alteryx team.   For example, companies do not necessarily have to create an account on the Alteryx community to post. They can reach out to a community member responsible for this page, and they can provide all the necessary details required to post a job.    The Alteryx team can decide the level of moderation which they wish to apply, and then check it off with the Job Poster to continue.    #4 Split Job Board into Job Posters and Job Hunters Of course, it will be helpful if people could post their profiles indicating that they are looking out. This will be slightly different for job posters, but can still be moderated by the Alteryx team. In addition, it would be helpful to have the following features: An icon frame that indicates one is hiring or looking for work as part of the Alteryx Community icon.  An anonymous posting in case some users are not comfortable with sharing on the community itself.  Outreach by Alteryx As mentioned, Alteryx has many partners worldwide and I can only see the partnerships increasing as the days go by. I am sure that the companies Alteryx work with are interested in getting more talent.   This can be part of the overall package which Alteryx sells. Not just the software that changes lives, but it also comes with a Community that is helpful AND can find you talent to make those transformations a faster reality!    The community is buzzing with ACEs, top contributors, etc. It will be great to have this feature as well - another golden point for Alteryx.    Conclusion Thank you for reading and considering this idea. I hope this idea is taken up by the Alteryx Community and team - I am a firm believer in this as it can help even more people and makes Alteryx a skill more worthwhile knowing in 2023 and beyond. ... View more

Hi all!    Just had a fun thought over Christmas and didn't find the time to post it. But the general idea is to increase participation in User Groups, and to have more unique flairs to it.    First I think being part of a UG is pretty cool - but having badges that are designed to the UG location would add more flair to it and encourage people to explore UGs too. Tableau does this in a pretty cool way, an example is how they design base on location like for Singapore:   Joining badges helps users to know about UGs and contribute within. Having more activities is fun!   Second Have UG badges that indicate contributions within as well. For example, being a proactive member by hosting several UGs or events should warrant some form of badge / honor as well.    I think small pockets can hang out on their own online and have sessions that can help one another. One problem is that UGs are usually dependent on UG Leaders organizing, but if individual users can setup sessions and share their sessions would be good and should be counted too. This helps current UG Leaders find talent and also to plan for succession should a UG Leader wish to step down.    Third Having more support from AYX on these programs. I know hosting events and catering is expensive in general. Support from Alteryx in the form of USD 150 per UG setup is already pretty neat. It would be great if we can have more support - some arrangement can be made I'm sure.    That's all I have for now! Will comment to add more. ... View more

Hi @LeahK   To really power the cleanup - what would be tremendously helpful is data on unsolved problems. I think that this could take 2 forms: a) a table format (like @JoeM does for the weekly exercises) - this would be fairly trivial to auto-generate this from the underlying data rather than hand-crafting - and can include links directly to the unsolved item b) a grouped data structure, where we could see a few things:       - Unsolved items by requestor (that allows us to group and target the biggest populations first)       - some indicator of whether this requestor is still active in logging into the community (no point in chasing someone that hasn't logged in since 2013)       - Links directly to the thread item       - Last post date on the thread (no point in chasing someone to mark this as solved if it just happened 2 days ago)   That would enable us to go through the full population and more effectively work on getting the remaining items marked as solved or closed - and it would also allow us to track our progress as a metric of success day-by-day!   :-) I feel a data-driven-cleanup-project coming on - with as-of snapshots; trend graphs etc.   Very exciting stuff!   ... View more