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Displaying articles for: March 2010

Events

Extend 2010 - Developer Summit

A big thank you to all of our partners & customers who came to Broomfield, CO this week. We had a fantastic Developer Summit. We covered the follow

Events

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Developer Summit: Consuming Alteryx Web Services

Alteryx Web Services and the applications they support have been in development for some time. Very shortly, we will release the beginning of a public

Events

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Developer Summit: Consuming Alteryx Wizards in C#

In early January, Ned posted a blog, "Alteryx API for .NET made easy." He created a new AlteryxAPI.NET.dll which wraps the Alteryx API. It detects if

Apps and Macros

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Developer Summit: Batch Macros - Why and How

What are Batch Macros?Batch macros are a new feature in Alteryx 5.0. They add some fairly simple capabilities that let you solve problems in ways that

Apps and Macros

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Developer Summit: Writing Effective Macros

Writing macros is like writing any other code. You have to get into a programmer mentality. Often you write a module completely differently when writi

Events

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Developer Summit: Developer Tools - The Basics

With Alteryx 5.0 and the new toolbox, there is a new tool folder called: Developer Tools. What is it and why is it called that?The 1st question that c

Developer

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More VBS Scripting

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

Common Use Case

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Reading Multiple XLS Tables

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

Developer

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Regex Tokenize

Adam Riley talked about the Regex parse documentation seeming incorrect. His understanding of the Regex Tokenize is in fact correct, our help is clear