Engine Works

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

Alteryx Server

4 min to read

An Introduction to Troubleshooting Alteryx Server

Following these steps will help find the fastest resolution to an Alteryx Server issue.

Best Practices

3 min to read

Become “Lightning” Fast in Alteryx Designer!

Tips & Tricks from an Alteryx ACE on how to develop Alteryx workflows as quickly as possible.

Platform | Product

3 min to read

We All Start Somewhere

As an experienced Alteryx user, it can be easy to forget that there is a learning curve for many folks just starting out. This article takes a look at a new Designer Cheat Sheet wh...

Best Practices

7 min to read

MarqueeCrew's Guide to Avoiding Date Frustration

If you google (a verb) "Date Frustration," the 7th article is Date Conversion Frustration - Alteryx Community. As a follow-up to my previous blog post, Marquee Crew's Guide to Date...

Predictive Analytics

2 min to read

CavMis Model – Predicting the FIFA 2018 World Cup Without Be...

Following up on their recent webinar, Shaan and Nick predict the World Cup winner.

Developer

5 min to read

Behind the Scenes of the Tool Mastery Series: Community APIs...

Recently we celebrated the launch of our long anticipated Tool Mastery Series, a collective of Knowledge Base articles tasked with communicating the most inspired uses of each Alte...

Tips and Tricks

4 min to read

For the Love of Formulas

For the love of formulas; why would you take the time to configure many formulas and risk errors in the process when you can rely on a known set of formulas and dynamically create...

Developer

3 min to read

REST APIs Part 2 - Authentication

Key words to look for when authenticating to a REST API within Alteryx

Alteryx Tools

9 min to read

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.

Apps and Macros

5 min to read

Step Into The Debug Macro

Who needs the Debug Macro? If you're building macros in Alteryx, YOU need the Debug Macro. If you're not building macros in Alteryx, you need to build macros in Alteryx. And you ne...

Tips and Tricks

3 min to read

Canvas Navigation in Alteryx 10.1

Alteryx 10.1 includes new controls to make it easier to navigate around the canvas with large workflows.

Alteryx Designer

2 min to read

Have you tried the Alteryx Weekly Exercise?

The weekly exercises we are posting provide a great way for users to cross train and collaborate on different way to solve problems.

Apps and Macros

3 min to read

Generating fractals in Alteryx

Inspired by my cranky five year old, I created a Mandelbrot Set renderer in Alteryx.

Alteryx Designer

1 min to read

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...

Alteryx Designer

8 min to read

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...

Tips and Tricks

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Pan tool

Quick post today - More of a “Did you Know?” actually. We get requests all the time to implement a pan tool, or a hand grabber for Alteryx that

Common Use Case

2 min to read

Using the Reporting Table tool to create a Legend

I have been using the Reporting tools a lot lately as I have been working on a Consumer Profiling wizard for Demographics Now. I have become pretty handy with them and figured I’d...

Alteryx Designer

4 min to read

Round Table Round Up

Here at Alteryx we have an internal mailing list called the Round Table. It is a place where anyone in the company who has an Alteryx question can reach out and ask? other employee...

Apps and Macros

2 min to read

Sample Range - a new tool

Ah, the simple joys of the Sample tool. It has to be one of the easiest tools in Alteryx for new users to grasp. I know for myself, it is a frequently used method of selecting exac...

Apps and Macros

14 min to read

A Map Making Machine

I never cease to be amazed at all of the things that Alteryx can be made to do. I was recently on a call with a client who asked if Alteryx could be used to dynamically serve up th...

Release | New Feature

2 min to read

NULLs in Formulas

It's been a long time since our last blog post. The core team is extremely busy working towards Alteryx 5.0. I hesitate to give an exact date, but we

Common Use Case

2 min to read

Fuzzy Match: Word Statistics

A question came from our own Professional Services group: They are requiring a lot of fuzzy matching on business names. Is there any documentation on

Alteryx Designer

2 min to read

Geocoding IP Addresses

1st - a big thank you to Steve Pasetti of Accudata for bringing the MaxMind GeoLite City Database to my attention. He was asking me about how it might

Release | New Feature

1 min to read

Counting Records In a Stream

I have gotten the question of how to count records in a stream. The simplistic answer is to use a summarize tool. That works in most situations, but t

Release | New Feature

1 min to read

Wall Calendars with Alteryx

Although generating tabular output is easy, and generating maps is easy, generating temporal output is, well, challenging. So with this in mind, I too

Release | New Feature

2 min to read

Keep it Lean

You know the scenario, you have to solve a newly identified business problem now. In fact, it needs to be completed yesterday. You throw something tog

Common Use Case

2 min to read

Alteryx is Fun

I've had a bunch of customers tell me how much fun they think Alteryx is to use. One even had her coworkers describe it as "that cartoon program." Obv

Alteryx Designer

2 min to read

Resource Utilization

Frequently asked question: Why is my computer so slow when I run Alteryx?The short answer is that Alteryx is designed to use all the resources it poss