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Alteryx Designer Desktop Knowledge Base

Definitive answers from Designer Desktop experts.
Check out the Predictive District on the Gallery. There are great macros, apps, and sample workflows to demonstrate some nifty new tools.
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how to add a product column to forecast for all the products at one time
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Following an new installation of the predictive tools, while trying to run a workflow involving R tool or any macros that use R tool (most of the predictive tools for example), you may face following error message
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If you are installing two different versions of Alteryx Designer and their respective predictive tools- there is an order of operation.    1.  Install the Administrative Version of Alteryx Designer. 2.  Install the Administrative Version of Alteryx R/Predictive tools. 3.  Install the Non-Administrative Version of Alteryx Designer. 4.  Install the Non-Administrative Version of Alteryx R/Predictive tools.
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If you are building a predictive model, inevitably you will want to analyze the effect that your independent variables have on your dependent variable. This article is meant to shed some light on the Alteryx-specific options for this type of analysis!
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Most people using Designer will only install the Alteryx Predictive Tools. These tools do not need additional software other than Designer. The Microsoft R Client Predictive Tools require a separate Microsoft R Client installation.
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How to troubleshoot Predictive Tools or R-Tool missing in Designer
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Errors and warnings occur when predictive model names contain spaces
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This article has an attached macro from Dr. Dan for grouping linear regressions by unique values in a column.
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This article includes a macro for obtaining parsed statistics from the Linear Regression tool.
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This error occurs when the validation sample contains inconsistent data with the evaluation sample causing different data types for the same column.
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Error while installing additional R packages in Alteryx Designer - "GenericTool (1): Can't find plugin "AlteryxRPluginEngine.dll""
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If you ran across this error: Logistic Regression: Error in searchDir(dbDir, lang) : Logistic Regression: Expecting a single string value: [type=NULL; extent=0] read this article!
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Troubleshooting the Error: The R.exe exit code (n) indicated an error
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An ETS model, otherwise known as exponential smoothing, estimates single variable forecasts using weighted averages of past observations. There is more weight given to recent observations with a gradual and constant rate of decrease for the observation weight over time. Depending on the method used, there is a smoothing equation for one or more of the following: level, trend, and seasonality.
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ARIMA stands for Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average. An ARIMA model produces time series forecasts using autoregressive integrated moving averages based on a single variable model or covariate model. Generally, either the AR or MA terms are used, models with both terms are less common.
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This article provides a resolution for an error occurring with the 2021.2 Principal Components Sample Workflow.
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In Alteryx, there are 5 customizable options within the Cross-validation screen.
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With the release of 11.0, we see numerous changes to many tools in the Designer. The Linear Regression Tool gets a UI makeover and some cool new features are added that we will explore in this article. If you are new to performing regression analysis in Alteryx, I highly recommend checking out the Tool Mastery article which goes into everything there is to the old tool. Everything presented in that article remains valid as no features were removed. In this article, we will delve into the changes and new features.
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The cause and solution to the "DisableAllOutputForLicense" error with the Predictive Tools.
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