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Learn about widgets and data items from the HTML GUI SDK. See a simple example of how the SDK is used to update the Publish to Tableau Server tool.
New to the HTML GUI SDK? In this example, I will be walking you through the development of a simple HTML macro from creating the correct folder structure to packaging it up and sha...
Do you interact with REST APIs? Do you format your data as JSON using multiple Alteryx Designer tools? If so, you should download the attached JSON Build tool. The JSON Build tool...
Want to start putting those Alteryx and JavaScript skills to good use and build a fancy new connector? Come as we walk you through an example using the HTML GUI SDK to get through...
With Alteryx Connect, our Social Data Cataloging and Data Discovery solution, you will be able to get your own custom metadata connectors in practically no time. This article intro...
Want to leverage Alteryx capabilities in a web-app? Maybe you want to create your own data connector. Come as we introduce you to all of our developer tools so that you can show US...
Read about the Alteryx Tool Generator to build custom tools that utilize the HTML GUI SDK and JavaScript engine API.
If you ever wanted a way to Input your Outlook emails and attachments into your Alteryx Workflows, read on and check out the Outlook Input tool I created using the Alteryx SDK!
If you haven't had a chance, please checkout the Decision 2016 Presidential Election application. The app predicts who the winning candidate will be within a given U.S. neighborhoo...
Have you ever wondered what being an Alteryx engineer is like?
Recently we celebrated the launch of our long anticipated Tool Mastery Series, a collective of Knowledge Base articles tasked with communicating the most inspired uses of each Alte...
This is an introductory explaination to the Detour tool, the handling of empty fields in Interface tools, and how these two concepts can work together. I show how this is used in a...
Are you struggling with OAuth, trying to build a payload, or wondering how to get information from the API that you need?
YXI files are a new Alteryx file type that provide a mechanism for packaging and installing new tools in Alteryx. This creates a new possibility of creating and publishing tools so...
This update to the Cache Dataset macro includes options to manage the storage and cleanup of cached files.
Key words to look for when authenticating to a REST API within Alteryx
Think the Developer toolset isn't for you? Think again. Start using these tools and change the way you are building workflows.
"How do I read from multiple Excel workbooks/worksheets?" is a question we hear fairly regularly. Let's put together an Alteryx macro that will read any number of Excel worksheets...
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I had been with Alteryx for about two months when I started hearing people talk about CEF [Chromium Embedded Framework]. I did a little digging on my own, and true to its name, fou...
What if the data has yet to be fully collected, much less structured, and you need to get to it without driving yourself crazy? More often than not, this is the case when it comes...
This blog post is referring to functionality that will be in our next major release. Beta users can preview this feature in the latest Beta release of Alteryx.
The 3rd problem of the Alteryx Grand Prix this year was to create an optimal set of sales territories for 5 existing sales offices. In order to judge the results, contestants were...
We got an issue report on our internal support email about the non-overlapping drive time (DT) macro being slow. In this case it was running 29,000 5 minute DTs against a nationwid...
We had a bug reported in a beta release of 6.0 that a customer was having trouble disabling a Tool Container. Looking into it, I didn't see any issues, everything seemed to be work...
I got a feature request asking for the ability to ask a question. In the end, the module in question sends an email. They want to prompt the user with
There was a question on the Alteryx forums today about reading multiple XLS tables. This is the kind of thing that the DynamicInput tool is designed f
Adam Riley talked about the Regex parse documentation seeming incorrect. His understanding of the Regex Tokenize is in fact correct, our help is clear
I got asked the question of how to generate random numbers with a normal distribution. A quick search online provides all kinds of formulas, it is a s