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Dynamic Hard Coding – Chained App Sorcery

“McEleavey, you Brobdingnagian cognoscente,” spoke Jeff, “how on Earth do we pass through Value X and have this influence the wording in the second app?”

Simple Python Macros – It’s Easier Than You Think!

You don’t need to know how to code in order to make code work. This blog will show how to build your own macro to send smartphone notifications with Alteryx.

Using Alteryx to Perform Data Dictionary Checks

A macro to test data against a data dictionary.

Alteryx Analytic Apps Introduction and Deep Dive Series: Par...

The chicken or the egg of Analytic Apps

Alteryx Analytic Apps Introduction and Deep Dive Series: Par...

Part 1: Introduction to Analytic Apps

Pass Go, Faster: What’s the quickest way 'round the Monopoly...

In this blog, we look at how Gwilym could have used Alteryx to optimise his route planning to visit all the locations on the London Monopoly using a few different optimisation stra...

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...

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 Altery...

Mask by Pattern - How to Alter the XML of a Workflow at Runt...

With this option, we are able to dynamically recreate tools in our workflow, change their parameters, or perform different approaches based on business criteria. There is no limit!

Auto Documentation

Say someone built an Alteryx workflow at your company. What does it do exactly? How does it work? Can you trace it step by step? And just how did they configure these pieces?

Dynamic Apps From The Inspire APAC Solution Centre

At the start of every Inspire conference I am reminded of the quote by Irish poet William Butler Yeats: "There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."

Enriching Tax Data with Location Information

Working in finance, I’m somewhat bummed that I don’t often get to explore the possibilities within location-based data. That’s why I was thrilled when a project fell into my lap to...

The Prestige: Dynamic Macro Interfaces With the HTML GUI SDK

An example of how to use the HTML GUI SDK to build a dynamic interface that completely changes the functionality of a simple underlying macro.

Building a Hierarchy (With Kevin Bacon) *

Batches Be Solvin’

The final lap of the series on the difference between macro types and when to use them.

Hello, Iterative Macro, My Old Friend

Learn Macros Through Code (for Non-Coders)

If you know zero things about programming, by the end of this blog you'll know three.

Macro Maynia: Macros...a piece of cake!

Cakes are like macros - they're delicious and anyone can make them.

Least Squares in an Alteryx Macro

Macro Maynia: Loads of Fun

Trying to understand macros in a relateable way? Start here.

Macro Maynia: Knitting

Sydney knits together a macro analogy your grandma could understand.

What the Heck Is a Macro?!

Macro May-nia!

Using the HTML GUI SDK as a Coding NOOB

API: A Pub In-Between

Santa's Little Helper (macro): Find Closest

I have recently been tinkering with spatial requirements from clients and have found myself inside of a rabbit's hole. The result was the creation of a new macro, Find Closest.

Using the Alteryx API from….Alteryx

What if you administer an Alteryx gallery and wanted to verify that all macros are being correctly setup? Where would you even start?

A New Kind of Macro

The Python tool opens new doors for Alteryx macro development.

Workflow Text Messages Using Twilio

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...

Patterns for Managing Reference Data using the Alteryx Platf...

That ‘a-ha’ moment when you realise that the major Alteryx application of reference data is really as an advanced form of ‘data spellchecker.’