Engine Works

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

Best Practices

8 min to read

Practical Tips to Advance from User to Superuser

Learn how you can rise up from Alteryx user to super user with these tips!

Alteryx Designer

2 min to read

Master Alteryx Designer Standards with Our Workflow Template

Welcome to the Data Pal team's guide to mastering Alteryx standards!

Designer Cloud

4 min to read

Exploratory Data Analysis in Designer Cloud

Learn how Designer Cloud, Designer Experience features can help you understand your data quickly

Alteryx Designer

3 min to read

Helpful Resources Inside Alteryx Designer

Learn about the resources inside Designer that can help you get unstuck in your workflow development.

Alteryx Designer

3 min to read

6 Ways to Grow Alteryx Skills at Your Company

Best practices for optimizing your use of Alteryx Designer and streamlining workflow development

Alteryx Designer

7 min to read

Tips for Reverse Engineering Current Processes in Alteryx

Learn best practices for reverse engineering a complex process in Alteryx

Alteryx Designer

4 min to read

Excel Templates with Blob Tools and Control Containers

You can use control containers to execute blob tools for moving Excel templates in Alteryx

Designer Cloud

2 min to read

Data Wrangling in Designer Cloud, Trifacta Classic

We have created a cheatsheet for wrangling your data in Designer Cloud, Trifacta Classic

Alteryx Designer

4 min to read

Advanced PowerPoints with Alteryx and R

Combine the ease-of-use and powerful connections capabilities from Alteryx with advanced, custom creation of PowerPoints.

Alteryx Designer

2 min to read

Sending Alteryx Process Emails to Microsoft Teams

Tired of a massively full inbox because of Alteryx Server emails?

Alteryx Auto Insights

3 min to read

6 Steps for Success With Auto Insights

Whether you've just purchased Auto Insights or you have used it for a while and aren't sure about best practices, here’s where you can start – the foundations for scaling AAI.

Alteryx Designer

1 min to read

How to Change a Tool's Connection Type

Have you had enough of those non-straight rounded angles connections between your tools? Instead of making them wireless, why not change the type?

Alteryx Designer

9 min to read

Troubleshooting Common Formula Expression Errors

In this article we will work through a handful of common Formula tool errors and how they can be resolved

Alteryx Server

7 min to read

Alteryx Architectures - Alteryx Server Demo Environment

In this edition of the series, we’ll look at the architecture of the Alteryx Server Demo environment and discuss some of the key reasons we decided on this architecture.

Alteryx Designer

5 min to read

5 Tools & 5 Awesome Features

I thought it was time to talk about some powerful and amazing features of some tools which mostly go unnoticed. It’s time to celebrate them!

Alteryx Designer

5 min to read

5 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Using Alteryx

I’d like to share a few things I wish I had known when I started so that if you are starting your Alteryx journey, perhaps your learning curve can be less steep.

Alteryx Tools

4 min to read

Reporting in Alteryx: Sending Emails with Attachments

What if you could use Alteryx to automate routine emails? Enter: the Email tool.

Alteryx Tools

7 min to read

Reporting in Alteryx: Creating 100 PDFs with Maps

I’m back with another Alteryx reporting tools use case—this time, it’s PDFs! And lots of them.

Alteryx Auto Insights

13 min to read

Auto Insights: Working With an Imperfect Use Case

As someone who recently purchased their first home, mortgage data (along with DIY YouTube videos) has become a bit of an obsession.

Alteryx Designer

5 min to read

Saving Time With Advanced Excel Outputs

In this article, I want to share with you an Alteryx method to solve a common time suck when it comes to Excel reporting.

Common Use Case

3 min to read

RegEx for the Win: XML Tag Clean-Up

I want to show you all how easy it is to remember a simple syntax that can really help you clean up your data.

Alteryx Designer

7 min to read

10 Alteryx Tips and Best Practices

So, I have been an Alteryx user for more than three years now, and part of my job is helping others in their Alteryx journey (which I absolutely love). So here is my list of 10 tip...

Alteryx Designer

4 min to read

Will's Weekly Wonders - WhatsApp Analyser

Ever wanted to know how you can analyse your data from WhatsApp? Then read on, as I show you how you can use Alteryx to analyse your WhatsApp data and how you can apply some new le...

Alteryx Designer

6 min to read

The Blob: Reporting That Isn’t From a Horror Film

Much like their Hollywood counterpart, the Blob tools are simply “Indescribable… Indestructible… Nothing can stop it!” Read on to see how they can be used to easily format output f...

Apps and Macros

4 min to read

Fixing Macros and Analytic Apps Using Debug Mode

Building Analytic Apps and Macros within Alteryx can be very exciting, but it can also present error messages that are hard to troubleshoot. Within this article, I would like to de...

Prep and Blend

4 min to read

How to Dynamically Remove Columns with Zeros or Nulls from A...

Recently, I learned how to remove columns with zeros or nulls from Alteryx workflows using the Auto Field tool, and I want to show you how easy it is.

Alteryx Auto Insights

5 min to read

Converting Business Questions into Answers with Auto Insight...

You want to answer your question, “how is my revenue performing over time, and what’s driving it?” You know you have revenue data and Alteryx Auto Insights (AAI). But how exactly d...

Alteryx Designer

2 min to read

How to Reduce the Size of an Alteryx Data Set

This post will share two tips to reduce the size of your Alteryx output and increase the speed of data loading in BI applications.

Tips and Tricks

1 min to read

What to Do When an Alteryx Sharepoint List Input Tool Produc...

I recently ran into a problem where my SharePoint List Input tool produced nulls. Read on to learn how to fix it.

Alteryx Designer

2 min to read

Non-Regression Tests

Learn how to check equivalence between two tables across all rows and columns.