Engine Works

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

Alteryx Designer

2 min to read

Getting Started with Designer Desktop During Your Alteryx Tr...

Get ready to see how simple it is to start transforming your data with Alteryx through this Quick Start Guide.

Alteryx Designer

4 min to read

How Numbers Work in Designer: Decimals, Rounding Techniques,...

Understand how numbers are rounded and displayed in Alteryx Designer, which can sometimes challenge your expectations.

Alteryx Designer

9 min to read

Alteryx Obscura: Project Asparagus

Building a choose your own adventure saga in Alteryx!

Alteryx Designer

6 min to read

We Brought Joy to the Worst Place in England Using Alteryx:...

Using spatial analysis to pinpoint the location in England furthest from a pub.

Alteryx Designer

2 min to read

Bringing in Additional File Types from SharePoint

Strategies for bringing in non-standard SharePoint file types in Alteryx

Alteryx Designer

2 min to read

Alteryx Obscura: Alter-cation

Building pop-ups into your Alteryx workflow... for fun!

Alteryx Designer

3 min to read

Hey Siri, Run My Alteryx Workflow

Learn how you can easily run Alteryx workflows from your mobile.

Alteryx Designer

11 min to read

A Guide to Formatted Reports in Alteryx

Learn about the many ways to create formatted reports in Alteryx Designer

Alteryx Designer

2 min to read

Where’s My Example? Creating Example Workflows for Custom Ma...

Learn how to add an example workflow to your own macro!

9 min to read

From My Desk to Yours - Alteryx Copilot Prompts That WORK

In this post, I’ll share some of my tried and tested prompts that have been working well for me lately, along with why they work and how you can adapt them to your own workflows an...

Alteryx Designer

5 min to read

Alteryx Obscura: The Puzzle Solver

Using spatial analysis to solve a puzzle in Alteryx Designer.

Alteryx Designer

2 min to read

Alteryx Tricks You Didn’t Know – Ep 4: Visibility

Welcome back to Alteryx Tricks You Didn’t Know, the series where I intend to level up your Alteryx game!

Alteryx Designer

2 min to read

Making Your SharePoint Input Tool Work Faster

Learn how to download files from SharePoint to speed up your Alteryx Designer workflows.

Alteryx Designer

4 min to read

Handling Unusually Large Numbers in Alteryx Designer

Learn how to work with extremely large numbers in Alteryx without using Python.

Alteryx Designer

9 min to read

Alteryx Obscura: The Interpreterator

What's the most obtuse way to Rick Roll Inspire that's fit for Alteryx Obscura? Read on to find out!

Alteryx Designer

2 min to read

Building a Dynamic Chained App

Allow users to run a specific custom Alteryx app rather than a fixed app with multiple questions.

Alteryx Designer

10 min to read

Alteryx Obscura: Turning Workflows into Crafts

Want to turn your beautiful workflow into a crochet pattern? Of course you do!

Alteryx Designer

4 min to read

Alteryx Tricks You Didn’t Know – Ep 3: Workflow Configuratio...

Welcome back to 5 Alteryx Tricks You Didn’t Know, the series where I intend to level up your Alteryx game.

Alteryx Designer

6 min to read

Creating a List of Working Days

Learn how to generate a list of working days in the calendar year, taking holidays into consideration.

Alteryx Designer

1 min to read

From DND (Dungeons and Dragons) to Financial Controls

How demoing a virtual dice roller led to inspiration for Alteryx being used as part of a financial control.

Alteryx Designer

6 min to read

Alteryx Obscura: Building a Workflow from a Napkin

Let’s crank the silliness up to 11 and get into… the napkinalteryxifier!!

Alteryx Designer

4 min to read

Alteryx Obscura: Becoming the Bob Ross of Alteryx

You may know how to add tools to the canvas, but do you know how to paint an Alteryx canvas?

Alteryx Designer

5 min to read

Solving the Monty Hall Problem with Alteryx

Learn how to visualize the solution to this probability puzzle with Alteryx Designer.

Alteryx Designer

2 min to read

Introducing the Alteryx Obscura Series

Learn some wacky Alteryx techniques in our new Alteryx Obscura blog series.

Alteryx Designer

3 min to read

Alteryx Tricks You Didn’t Know – Ep 1: Workflow Navigation

Level up your Alteryx game with these tips and tricks!

Alteryx Designer

1 min to read

PDF Packaging in Alteryx Designer

Have you ever wanted to package and share a workflow with not just Excel data but PDFs as well?

Alteryx Designer

3 min to read

Cut the Clutter and Run Only What You Need in Designer

Partial Workflow Execution: Speed Up Your Workflow Development!

Alteryx Designer

14 min to read

Advent of Code Tips and Tricks

Learn 10 tips and tricks to solve the Advent of Code puzzles in Alteryx!

Alteryx Designer

7 min to read

Super Searching: Alteryx Implementations for Breadth First a...

During the Advent of Code 2024, Day 18’s problem, two different algorithms were needed to achieve the optimal solution: Breadth First Search (BFS) and Binary Search.

Alteryx Designer

4 min to read

XML in Alteryx

Learn more about Alteryx Workflow XML files and parsing XML in Designer.