Engine Works

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

Apps and Macros

5 min to read

Iterative Macro Debugging Made Easy

What if I told you there was a way to run the inside of an iterative macro iteration by iteration?

Apps and Macros

4 min to read

11 Steps to Create an Iterative Macro for Pagination

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

Alteryx Server

4 min to read

Data Source Management During Workflow Migration

Learn how to seamlessly migrate your Alteryx workflows from test to production environments with effective data source management.

Apps and Macros

7 min to read

Develop an App That Lasts: Self-Service Best Practices

Learn how to integrate safeguards to catch errors in your Alteryx workflows.

Alteryx Designer

3 min to read

2023 Gallery Highlights

Check out the top Gallery posts from 2023!

Apps and Macros

13 min to read

Best Practices For Deploying Macros

Let's explore options for deploying macros to your Alteryx environment.

Apps and Macros

3 min to read

Dude, Where's My Macro?

See the new user flow for fixing workflows with missing macros.

Apps and Macros

3 min to read

Building a Personality Quiz in Alteryx

Find out which Alteryx tool you are and how to build a quiz in Alteryx!

Apps and Macros

1 min to read

The Dates for Time Series Macro

Find out how you can easily identify the timestamp behind each period in the output of the TS Forecast tool.

Apps and Macros

3 min to read

ChatGPT Connector Macros

We’re very excited to announce our Continuum Chat GPT connectors for Alteryx, turning Alteryx users into the World’s best “Prompt Engineers” almost before the job title was invente...

Alteryx Designer

9 min to read

Using Chained Apps For Email Verification

2-factor authentication and email are fairly standard approaches for increasing the security of whatever you’re trying to access. We can recreate this functionality in Alteryx!

Alteryx Tools

3 min to read

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

Alteryx Tools

4 min to read

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...

Apps and Macros

3 min to read

Alteryx for Private Equity

What do Twitter, Hilton Hotels, and Georgia-Pacific have in common? They have been subject to Leveraged Buyout (LBO) bids.

Alteryx Tools

6 min to read

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...

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...

Apps and Macros

3 min to read

Fun with Alteryx: Random Weekly Challenge App

The Alteryx Weekly Challenges are really fun - however, it can be daunting to select one, and I can find that I often spend just as long picking one to do as I spend solving the ch...

Apps and Macros

3 min to read

Filter Locked Files Macro

By using the Filter Locked Files macro, you can easily pre-remove file paths that will cause a Dynamic Input error.

Apps and Macros

4 min to read

WhatsApp Web Messages From Your Workflow

How I built a WhatsApp Web Messaging Tool for Alteryx.

Apps and Macros

4 min to read

Alteryx Because I Can – Snake Game

If the question is Alteryx, the answer is yes!

Alteryx Server

7 min to read

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.

Apps and Macros

8 min to read

Step Through the Multi-Verse

Introducing the Multi-Row –Field –Column Formula tool.

Alteryx Designer

9 min to read

Creating a Custom SQL Query Builder App

How to create a Custom SQL Query Builder App and some suggestions for customizing it for your own database querying uses!

Alteryx Server

11 min to read

Server Runner Macros

Build your own “runner” macro – with supported tools – and in the process demystify the Alteryx Server API.

Apps and Macros

7 min to read

Alteryx Analytic Apps Introduction and Deep Dive Series: Par...

Time to create an analytical app!

Apps and Macros

3 min to read

Coffee Roulette

Using Snowflake and Alteryx to create a Coffee Roulette application to facilitate colleague engagement and create those real world connections when we couldn't meet in person.