Community Highlights & Release Notes | July/August 2024

[MeganBowers]

This month, we have a double issue for you—Community highlights from both July and August. That’s a lot of content! Let’s get into it.

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Need To Know

This month, the Event User Group and Community Calendars received a few updates to help streamline the user experience. Along with those upgrades, users now receive a confirmation email containing the event details when registering for events. Look out for additional improvements in the coming months!

We’ve also fixed a few minor bugs on the recently enhanced Weekly Challenge filter, most notably:

• The ability to sort through challenges using the most recent, top viewed, and top liked filters

• The ability to customize the total replies shown on a challenge using the Community Settings

Top Discussions

We’re introducing a new section to the Community Highlights blogs—top discussions posted in the last month (in this case, the last two months).

• Calculating a 30-day rolling average: @OllieClarke jumped in with a solution and thorough explanation of the approach to solving this problem. And kudos to @AKPWZ for asking good follow-up questions and trying an approach for the join.

• 3 Excel outputs in one single Excel file: This discussion covered how to write to multiple tabs in the same Excel file. Great work illustrating the correct Block Until Done tool placement in your solution @cjaneczko!

• How would you help on this community and why: In this post, we heard from @OTrieger, @cpet13, @alexnajm, @apathetichell, @shancmiralles, @Bren_Spill, @Qiu, and @gawa on their approaches to answering discussion posts. We loved the discussion on supporting community members while also focusing on helping them learn and grow.

• SQL Server ODBC Connection Issue on Alteryx Server: @fmvizcaino highlighted the benefits of using a DSN-less connection for this use case. Nice job!

• Execute Workflow via API: @apathetichell provided guidance on executing an Alteryx workflow via the API with a service account. With an assist from Alteryx support on the final question, this post was solved!

We highlighted the above posts not only to give a shout-out to the solvers but also because their popularity indicates the discussion is engaging and they are solving other community members’ questions!

Community News

Catch up on Community happenings from July and August below.

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ACE Program

A huge congrats to our Q2 cohort of ACEs! You can find them in the ACE Class of 2024 blog and on the ACE page. We’ve also revamped our ACE Spotlight blog series to include ACEs inducted into the program in 2023 and 2024. Check out the spotlights here, and subscribe to the Alter.Nation blog so you don’t miss any community news.

Academy

In August, we had two changes for the Credly badge program:

• Cleaning up unclaimed badges (more information here)

• Updates to badges for Core Micro-Credentials (more information here)

We also had news about weekly challenges—check out these articles to learn more:

• User Group Weekly Challenge Takeover

• New Weekly Challenge Page Features

User Groups

The User Groups Meetings Calendar is full of opportunities to learn and engage with other users around the globe. Check it out today! We are also thrilled to reestablish the Tampa, Seattle, and Chicago User Groups! If you are located in one of these US cities, now is the time to join.

Read & Listen

We’ve had some fantastic technical deep dives from our Community members in the last two months.

On API Use Cases: @perin demonstrated how to connect to GitLab using their API. This article can help you manage GitLab Repositories in Alteryx! Additionally, @RobertZiegl showed us how the Alteryx License Portal API can be used for managing licenses at an enterprise. Learn more here.

On Advanced Techniques: @clmc9601 published two standout articles on workflow strategy—check out her tips for scaling and generalizing your workflows. @OllieClarke walked us through creating an XML file in Alteryx—an impressive feat!

On the podcast this month, we heard from six Community members and our hosts @NicoleJ and @JoshuaB on what they love about Alteryx! Tune in here for some great stories and insights (and maybe some warm-fuzzy feelings).

Conclusion

Being part of such a thriving online community is a pleasure. Thank you to all the tagged members above for your top-tier contributions this month, and thank you to the thousands of other Maveryx who show up ready to help every day!

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