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Under the hood of Alteryx: tips, tricks and how-tos.
JoeM
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

With the release of Alteryx Analytics 11.0, there were many changes to bridge the gap between self-service analytics and data governance. For many users, they may stumble across features as they experience them, while others are excitedly scanning the release notes. For those of you who enjoy reading and discovering the features, we bring you this video playlist made up of 11 videos that we wanted to highlight new features on, while others we leave to you to discover (*cough* comment tool now can be typed right into the canvas *cough**cough*)! 

 

1 - The New Enhanced Search

 

Feature Highlight: Search for tools inside the Designer, view available help documentation, and query the community, or browse the Analytic Gallery all in one spot!

 

2 - The New Formula Tool

 

Feature Highlight: The new formula tool makes expression creation easier, quicker, and more accurate thanks to the addition of auto-completing variables/functions and a data preview.

 

3 - Updated Zip File Support

 

Feature Highlight: While the ability to connect to a file with a zip file was available on a previous release, now you can connect to multiple files without needing to extract the zip file.

 

4 - The Updated DateTime Tool

 

Feature Highlight: The datetime tool has been updated with the ability to support custom date formats and an accompanying data preview.

 

5 - New Data Profiling Functionality

 

Feature Highlight: Simply adding a browse tool will reveal an overview of the state of your data, and how the data is broken down.

 

6 - Microsoft SQL Server Seamless Connection

 

Feature Highlight: Rounding up all the prerequisites to connect to Microsoft SQL Server are a thing of the past with the new seamless connection capability.

 

7 - Oracle Seamless Connection

 

Feature Highlight: Rounding up all the prerequisites to connect to Oracle are a thing of the past with the new seamless connection capability.

 

8 - Updated Predictive Tools

 

 Feature Highlight: The linear regression, logistic regression, and the tree model tools received a facelift for easier configuration, and additional customizable functionalities to enhance your analytical experience.

 

9 - The New Data Connection Manager

 

 Feature Highlight: The new data connection manager aims to make localized data connection setups a thing of the past by bringing it all together with one, centralized data connection repository.

 

10 - The Updated Scheduler

 

 Feature Highlight: The updated scheduler allows users to take advantage of browser-based scheduling and ensuring that they see only what they are supposed to see. Additionally, admins can update, edit, and disable schedules running on the server.

 

11 - The New Server Admin. Help

 

 Feature Highlight: The new server administrator has been updated with pictures, is searchable, organized, and viewable from the Gallery Admin. Panel.

 

To learn about even more 11.0 features that were not mentioned here, be sure to check out the Knowledge Base!

Joe Miller
Director, Customer Enablement

Joe is the Learning Strategy Manager at Alteryx. Joe is responsible for managing, creating, distributing, and delivering content with a focus of arming users with a dangerous knowledge of Alteryx.

Joe is the Learning Strategy Manager at Alteryx. Joe is responsible for managing, creating, distributing, and delivering content with a focus of arming users with a dangerous knowledge of Alteryx.

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