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SnakePlane might be the best thing to ever happen to the Python SDK.

A step by step guide to create a simple TOTAL function adding all numerical inputs.

The final installation in the Dev Toolbox series inspects a front-end developer's tools of the trade. Get it? Inspects? Like inspecting an element on a web page? No?...I'll see myself out now.

Our second installation in the Dev Toolbox series takes a deeper look into a Python developers' tools.

The first installation of the Dev Toolbox Series, a look into the toolbox of a C++ developer!

Ever wonder what an Alteryx C++ developer's favorite code editor is? Or a Python developer's favorite book? Or how about a front-end developer's favorite testing framework? If you answered yes to any of those questions, or just wonder where this is all going, continue reading! 

Have you ever wondered how new tools placed on the canvas know what fields are being passed to it? Are they psychic or something? Not at all! It's metadata! The metadata fields Name, Type, Size, Source, and Description are all passed from tool to tool before you even run the workflow. When working with the Python SDK, you are in charge of building and passing that information to downstream tools. This blog post will explain what that entails and how to implement it in your Python-driven plugin.

Have you ever wanted to be notified if a workflow ran into an issue? Or get push notifications when incoming data quality didn't meet your standards? Check out the Twilio SMS Alert tool, which will send you a text message based on the tool's incoming data.

No one likes to see an error message, but as an Alteryx tool developer, you have the ability to make seeing an error a useful experience that helps guide the user through configuring your tool. This article will show you how to add error messages through the macro back-end or the front-end.

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 sharing it with others. Some experience with JavaScript, HTML, and Macros is recommended before reading.

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 introduces the SDK functionality, which was just released in Alteryx Connect V2, and provides you with a big-picture understanding of how Connect loaders work.

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 what Alteryx is truly capable of.

Read about the Alteryx Tool Generator to build custom tools that utilize the HTML GUI SDK and JavaScript engine API.

Welcome to part 2 of the JavaScript Tool - the GUI edition. In this post I will describe how the tool's user interface was created.

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!

An experimental tool to execute JS code in an Alteryx workflow.

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 that they are easily added to Alteryx installs.