Engine Works

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

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.

3 min to read

How to Send a Telegram Message to your Mobile Phone with Alt...

Ever wanted to receive notifications on your mobile phone from your Designer workflow? Learn how to send messages to Telegram via Alteryx.

Alteryx Designer

4 min to read

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

Start with the data.

Apps and Macros

3 min to read

Making Workflows, Apps & Macros Backwards Compatible

Jumping the "Workflow was created by a more recent version of Alteryx" hurdle.

Alteryx Designer

8 min to read

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.

Apps and Macros

5 min to read

Dynamic Hard Coding – Chained App Sorcery

“McEleavey, you Brobdingnagian cognoscente,” spoke Jeff, “how on Earth do we pass through Value X and have this influence the wording in the second app?”

Apps and Macros

9 min to read

Simple Python Macros – It’s Easier Than You Think!

You don’t need to know how to code in order to make code work. This blog will show how to build your own macro to send smartphone notifications with Alteryx.

Apps and Macros

4 min to read

Using Alteryx to Perform Data Dictionary Checks

A macro to test data against a data dictionary.

Apps and Macros

5 min to read

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

The chicken or the egg of Analytic Apps

Apps and Macros

5 min to read

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

Part 1: Introduction to Analytic Apps

Alteryx Designer

8 min to read

Pass Go, Faster: What’s the quickest way 'round the Monopoly...

In this blog, we look at how Gwilym could have used Alteryx to optimise his route planning to visit all the locations on the London Monopoly using a few different optimisation stra...

Apps and Macros

3 min to read

COVID-19 Return-to-Work Scheduling with Alteryx (MBA Project...

It seemed counterintuitive to spend my workdays marketing a platform that helps liberate data workers from spreadsheets, only to spend my evenings on an MBA program learning how to...