Engine Works

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

Alteryx Designer

4 min to read

The Ins & Outs of Control Containers

Are you curious about how control containers can be useful in your workflow and what benefits they offer?

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.

7 min to read

Alteryx Workflow Orchestration: A New Era

Learn about methods for orchestration that empower you to operationalize and automate processes.

Alteryx Designer

7 min to read

Methods for Creating Formatted PDFs: Exploring BLOBs, VBA, P...

We will be looking at three different approaches to producing formatted PDF outputs from our data.

Alteryx Auto Insights

3 min to read

Content Strategy & Reporting With Auto Insights Magic Docume...

Learn about automated reporting and AI-generated suggestions with Auto Insights Magic Documents

Alteryx Designer

7 min to read

Transforming SOX Testing Leveraging Alteryx: A Playbook

Alteryx is a powerful tool to automate SOX testing

Alteryx Designer

4 min to read

How To Find Your First Alteryx Use Case

Let's cover some common criteria for Alteryx Designer use cases at the beginning of your company’s Alteryx implementation.

Alteryx Designer

5 min to read

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.

Alteryx Designer

3 min to read

Monitoring the Deterioration of ECL Calculations Using Alter...

Alteryx allows us to be equipped with a robust supervision solution of ECL calculations that reflect the bank's credit quality

Alteryx Designer

7 min to read

How to Render to Multiple Named Excel Sheets

Whilst outputting the results of a workflow, we often find ourselves publishing to an Excel spreadsheet. At times, this also involves splitting our data into separate sheets within...

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.

Alteryx Designer

5 min to read

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!

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.

Common Use Case

3 min to read

How to Create Merged Cells in Reports, Part 2

Can you merge columns in Alteryx outputs like you do in your Excel workbooks? Yes, it is possible! And here is how.

Common Use Case

3 min to read

How to Create Merged Cells in Reports, Part 1

Can you merge cells in Alteryx outputs like you do in your Excel workbooks? Yes, it is possible! And here is how.

Alteryx Auto Insights

4 min to read

Auto Insights: What Makes a Good Use Case?

This post will cover the three main components of a good use case and some business examples to give you an idea of how to use Alteryx Auto Insights (AAI).

Common Use Case

2 min to read

Feature Engineering with Alteryx: Feature Types

Feature engineering is the creation of new variables from current variables, based on business knowledge, intuition, and technical experience.

Common Use Case

1 min to read

Unlocking Intelligence Suite

How to unlock the Intelligence Suite tools.

Best Practices

1 min to read

Activate Your New Alteryx Licenses

To experience the thrill of solving, here's what to do after you install Designer.

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.

Common Use Case

8 min to read

Data Prep | Trending Hospitalizations

How the Generate Rows tool can help prepare a data set with missing rows of data to trend the total number of patients in a hospital, while also providing information on the number...

Common Use Case

6 min to read

Utilizing CMS Physician Professional Fee Data as Benchmarks...

Creating benchmarks for clinical physician offices in the state of Pennsylvania, allowing physician to compare their billing practice to those of their peers.

Common Use Case

2 min to read

One File, Three Sheets, Three Different Formats

Never a dull moment at the Virtual Solution Center! A user asked how to create an Excel output file with differently formatted sheets. At first, it seems trivial, however there are...

Common Use Case

4 min to read

First Steps in Alteryx Designer

So, you are new to Alteryx and you find an administrator version, non-administrator, licenses, predictive tools...

2 min to read

Can the real [Field Name] please stand up...

My initial thought as I was staring at the simplicity of the solution in front of me was, "Wow, so simple, and yet so amazingly useful! How come I never realised this before?"

Common Use Case

48 sec to read

How to Make an Alteryx Workflow Read-Only

Have you faced the challenge of putting your workflow into production, sharing it across the organization to different team members, and are concerned that modifications are made t...

Apps and Macros

5 min to read

Mask by Pattern - How to Alter the XML of a Workflow at Runt...

With this option, we are able to dynamically recreate tools in our workflow, change their parameters, or perform different approaches based on business criteria. There is no limit!

Common Use Case

3 min to read

Filling in the Blanks: Correcting Missing Values in Daily Ba...

Some finance processes in the tax world require you to monitor the balance of various accounts over time. The problem is, just like your personal bank account there isn’t always a...

Alteryx Server

1 min to read

Tax Reporting – From ERP To Inbox

Through Alteryx we are able to bring dynamic report automation to the tax advisor themselves and give them the flexibility to adjust as requirements change.

Apps and Macros

2 min to read

Auto Documentation

Say someone built an Alteryx workflow at your company. What does it do exactly? How does it work? Can you trace it step by step? And just how did they configure these pieces?