Engine Works

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

Common Use Case

Unlocking Intelligence Suite

How to unlock the Intelligence Suite tools.

Best Practices

Activate Your New Alteryx Licenses

To experience the thrill of solving, here's what to do after you install Designer.

Apps and Macros

Making Workflows, Apps & Macros Backwards Compatible

Jumping the "Workflow was created by a more recent version of Alteryx" hurdle.

Common Use Case

Data Prep | Trending Hospitalizations

How the Generate Rows tool can help prepare a data set with missing rows of data to trend the total number of patients in a hospital, while also providing information on the number...

Common Use Case

Utilizing CMS Physician Professional Fee Data as Benchmarks...

Creating benchmarks for clinical physician offices in the state of Pennsylvania, allowing physician to compare their billing practice to those of their peers.

Common Use Case

One File, Three Sheets, Three Different Formats

Never a dull moment at the Virtual Solution Center! A user asked how to create an Excel output file with differently formatted sheets. At first, it seems trivial, however there are...

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...

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?"

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 t...

Apps and Macros

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!

Common Use Case

Filling in the Blanks: Correcting Missing Values in Daily Ba...

Some finance processes in the tax world require you to monitor the balance of various accounts over time. The problem is, just like your personal bank account there isn’t always a...

Alteryx Server

Tax Reporting – From ERP To Inbox

Through Alteryx we are able to bring dynamic report automation to the tax advisor themselves and give them the flexibility to adjust as requirements change.