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JSON Parse Tool in Alteryx 2024.2

See how the new JSON Parse Tool features can save you time!

Web Scraping a Site with a Login Using Alteryx Designer

Learn how to web scrape a website that requires log in credentials.

11 Steps to Create an Iterative Macro for Pagination

Learn how to make multiple API calls within a single Alteryx workflow.

Error Debugging With the Run Command Tool

In this blog, I'm going to show 3 tips that can make it way more possible to debug failing scripts being run in Alteryx.

Creating XML Files in Alteryx

If you've ever wanted to create a SEPA XML (or XML) file using Alteryx, then this is the blog for you!

Connecting to GitLab in Alteryx Using APIs

This article is for Alteryx users who want to know how to make API Connections and those who are interested in GitLab integration.

How To Configure a Generic Vault in Data Connection Manager

With the 2024.1 release of the Alteryx Designer and Server, a new connection can be created in DCM: Generic Vault.

Alteryx Marketplace or Community Gallery - Where to Submit?

Find out where to submit your next Alteryx add-on creation or idea... Gallery or Marketplace?

Web Scraping in Alteryx

Learn how to web scrape in Alteryx--without using Python.

Introducing the Alteryx Server v3 API

With Server v21.4, significant new functionality is available through the Gallery API. Many administrative tasks can be more easily automated.

Alteryx Server - Gallery API Postman Collection

In this article, we are going to review what the Alteryx Gallery REST API is, what resources are available, and how to use it with Postman.

Alexa, Run my Workflow

Can I use Alexa to communicate with this API in order to trigger a workflow on our Alteryx Server, rather than me having to go through the tedious process of moving my mouse a coup...

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...

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...

Creating a Cubic Spline in Python and Alteryx

As a bit of a thought experiment, I wondered how hard it would be to create a cubic spline interpolation within Alteryx. As with many of my games, BaseA rules apply.

The Alteryx Feature You Wish You Knew About – XML View of Wo...

As I have continued on my path and learned more about automation, macros, apps, and even creating my own tools, one feature is a must-know for this – XML VIEW OF WORKFLOWS!

Solving Matt Parker’s Coin Puzzle in Alteryx

Matt Parker is publishing a weekly puzzle on his Think Maths website every Wednesday. This week’s puzzle was a Coin Puzzle - which felt like one that Alteryx would be well suited t...

Splunk, will it Alteryx?

During stay-at-home orders, what better time for the next installment of the Will it Alteryx? series - Splunk. We'll start with what Splunk is, and then see if it will Alteryx. (Sp...

Hey Alteryx, Turn On the Light... Actually, Why Don’t You Ju...

Not only is Alteryx able to do turn on a light, it is able to control the colour based on conditions; and coupled with Server or Scheduler it becomes a pseudo automation hub with m...

Excel Templates with Blob Tools

Joseph Serpis (@JosephSerpis) has a great new post over on Intersections and Overlaps that shows how to use the Blob Input and Output tools to save you time with your Excel templat...

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.

BUILD2 – Learning to Pilot the SnakePlane

Learn Macros Through Code (for Non-Coders)

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

An Overview of the Alteryx Abacus Add In

Using the HTML GUI SDK as a Coding NOOB

You're Creating Algorithms with Alteryx

Creating an Alteryx Custom Function in C++

A step by step guide to create a simple TOTAL function adding all numerical inputs.

Dev Toolbox: Front-End Edition

The final installation in the Dev Toolbox series inspects a front-end developer's tools of the trade. Get it? Inspects? Like inspecting an element on a web page? No?...I'll see mys...

Dev Toolbox: Python Edition

Our second installation in the Dev Toolbox series takes a deeper look into a Python developers' tools.