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Under the hood of Alteryx: tips, tricks and how-tos.

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Developer

Auditing Alteryx Workflows

Using this macro, you can output a list of all tools and their respective configurations in a neatly formatted table - the trick is to read in an Alteryx workflow (.yxmd) as a text file. Audit_Wor...

Platform | Product

Neat New Features! 2020.2

Welcome to our first release note roundup, a short and snappy blog covering tips and tricks you may not have seen in 2020.2 hidden behind the big keynote headlines, allowing us to solve even faster!

Platform | Product

AMPlify your Workflows

Let's explore what kind of performance benefits one might see by switching to the AMP Engine! The exact performance differences will be determined by the tools, data sizes, and underlying hardware.

Common Use Case

First Steps in Alteryx Designer

So, you are new to Alteryx and you find an administrator version, non-administrator, licenses, predictive tools...

Platform | Product

AMP Engine Technical Deep Dive | Part 2 | Key concepts of the AMP Engi...

You've read about "Why AMP?" Now let's learn about the how - record packets, the memory allocator and the task scheduler.

Can the real [Field Name] please stand up...

My initial thought as I was staring at the simplicity of the solution in front of me was, "Wow, so simple, and yet so amazingly useful! How come I never realised this before?" fix crosstab column...

Platform | Product

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Part Two

To help me further, I made an application that helped me narrow down my search on apartments in the city, in order to select fields I wished to investigate: Pets Allowed, Parking and A/C.

Platform | Product

AMP Engine Technical Deep Dive | Part 1 | Why AMP?

The Alteryx engine was fast. Why does it need to be faster?

Platform | Product

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Now that I'm WFH, I’m constantly asking myself why I decided to live in a four floor walk up with no A/C and a tiny balcony, when I could be a lot more comfortable with more space (and A/C).

Apps and Macros

COVID-19 Return-to-Work Scheduling with Alteryx (MBA Project)

It seemed counterintuitive to spend my workdays marketing a platform that helps liberate data workers from spreadsheets, only to spend my evenings on an MBA program learning how to work in Excel.

Common Use Case

How to Make an Alteryx Workflow Read-Only

Have you faced the challenge of putting your workflow into production, sharing it across the organization to different team members, and are concerned that modifications are made to the workflow?

Apps and Macros

How to Look at Designer Usage (without an Alteryx server)

Two ways in which users and organisations can use tools available directly within Alteryx Designer to monitor usage of Alteryx and understand how your team are making use of Alteryx - without Server.