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Formatting Legacy Forms - No RegEx!

World Tetris Day is coming June 6th, so we draw inspiration from one of the most engaging games of all time in formatting legacy forms.

2022 Gallery Highlights

Now that Gallery has been on Community for a little over a year, it seems like a good time to look back at some interesting macros, tools, and packages

How to Pull the Right Data from SharePoint Tools in Alteryx

Read on to learn more about SharePoint tools in Alteryx

Reporting in Alteryx: Sending Emails with Attachments

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

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.

How To Package Macros & Tools Into a .Yxi Alteryx Installer...

Whether you are sharing Macros or Tools with your friends and colleagues or building tool kits for the Community Gallery, the Alteryx Tool Installer file is the perfect way to pack...

Reporting in Alteryx: Generating a PowerPoint With a Graph

Did you know you can output PowerPoints in Alteryx? Let's take a look at how to do this with the Reporting tools!

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...

Blob (PDF/PNG/JPG) to Azure Process

With the rise of the cloud and the prevalence of Azure, it’s certain there will be others who’d like to post these types of files to their environments. The following is an in-dept...

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...

How to Generate and Format Totals and Subtotals

Overview of the main techniques for creating the different types of vertical or horizontal, totals or subtotals, and how to format them.

Sporting Predictions - How I Predicted the Results of Footba...

Read on to see if I successfully predicted all of Reading's final games in the season.

Monitoring Record Count Through an Alteryx Workflow

Have you ever built a workflow only to find out later that you’re losing a bunch of your records after trying to Join a couple files together?

Elasticsearch, will it Alteryx?

Presto, will it Alteryx?

Extending Alteryx HDFS Support: Better Living Through Macros

A customer recently asked how they could read in multiple files all at once from their HDFS server. The answer? Make a Macro! See how it's done and get a few nifty utilities to add...

Download Gmail Attachments with Alteryx

Do people regularly send you email attachments that are needed in your analytic workflows? If so, this blog post is for you. The Gmail Attachment Input tool automatically downloads...

I Am The Developer Toolset (And So Can You!)

Think the Developer toolset isn't for you? Think again. Start using these tools and change the way you are building workflows.

The Blogs of 2015

We have plenty of clients, ACEs, partners and employees who are inspired enough about Alteryx that they are blogging on their own, defining best practices in the analytics world wi...

The Ultimate Alteryx Holiday gift of 2015: Read All Excel Wo...

"How do I read from multiple Excel workbooks/worksheets?" is a question we hear fairly regularly. Let's put together an Alteryx macro that will read any number of Excel worksheets...

Navigating the Canvas

Larger workflows sometimes require a little extra effort to navigate around. We are exploring some enhancements to make it easier to move across a large canvas and we would love to...

The Cache Dataset Macro

Developing resource-intensive workflows can be a challenge when testing changes involves running the workflow through iterations that may take several minutes or more before being...

The All New Omnibus Wholly Integrated Tabular, Spatial, Snip...

Ok, so that's a bit much.But the new Browse tool in Alteryx 4.1 is almost (almost!) that cool.The first thing to note is that there is now just one Br