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

Displaying articles for: July 2009

Release | New Feature

New in 5.0: Directory Tool

The Directory tool is very simple and small, but it can really come in handy - especially with the Batch Macros. All it does it read a list of files f

Release | New Feature

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New in 5.0: Comparing Numbers

It seems like a very straight forward thing to do - comparing numbers. It ends up much more complicated than people think. The problem is that 2 numbe

Release | New Feature

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New in 5.0: Module Dependencies

Have you ever gotten someone's module and had to change each and every input and output path because they were set to a different directory than you h

Apps and Macros

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New in 5.0: Batch Macro

Batch Macros are a major new feature that very few people will ever notice or use. We have gotten a lot of requests for looping features in Alteryx. P

Common Use Case

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New in 5.0: Spatial Data in Formulas

One of our goals for spatial data in Alteryx is that it isn't really any different than other data. Anywhere that it makes sense to manipulate spatia