Hello! I am trying to install Alteryx Designer 2024.1 - Non Admin as an Independent Learner. First time I chose the version with Predictive, being curious to explore this part too and started the installation but because I didn't have too much time to wait and it took some time to finish the installation, at some point I cancelled it and then tried to install the simple version thinking that this will take less time and that cancelling would undo everything it got installed. Despite what I was thinking, I ended up not being able to install it anymore. Step by step I've followed the instructions that I found on this page: https://knowledge.alteryx.com/index/s/article/Complete-Uninstall-of-Alteryx-Designer-1583461464200 but that didn't help either. I registered with my second email and tried to install an older version (2023.2) but that also didn't work and now I get some new errors which I will attach to this message as screenshots as well as the older ones. I really want to learn to work in Alteryx Designer and to succeed in installing it on my laptop, but I don't know what else to do. However, I read that there might be something called Alteryx Clean Up Tool that would help me uninstall and remove anything that came with my failed attempts of installing Alteryx but I can't find it. I would appreciate any advice or information that would help me get Alteryx Designer installed!
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I've updated my alteryx app to the latest version, upon opening a workflow the sharepoint connector has error. "Version 3.8 was not found in our alteryx distribution. Please select another version. Internal error - Deadlock detected"
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Hi, I have a json string (attached), and I want to convert it to key-value format like this: How to do this? company_number key value 9145694 address {"address_line_1":"St. Andrews Road","country":"England","locality":"Henley-On-Thames","postal_code":"RG9 1HP","premises":"2"} 9145694 address ceased_on: "2018-05-14" 9145694 address country_of_residence:"England" 9145694 date_of_birth {"month":2,"year":1977} 9145694 date_of_birth etag:"3b8caf795c03af63921e381f7bb8300a51ebb73d" 9145694 date_of_birth kind:"individual-person-with-significant-control"
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I have a lengthy PDF that has tables embedded in it. I have tried to use PDF to Text from the Intelligence Suite under Computer Vision but both creating an Alteryx Table and a Text Delimited version results in the same result that is not ideal. Ideally, I would like the extraction to recognize the tables (i.e., recognize that there are lines and create fields accordingly. Any suggestions? Thanks, Neil
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At this year's Inspire, we had the ever enjoyable "Obscura" sessions. In these sessions, the ACEs dazzle conference attendees with feats of might and miscellania. One particular session has been stuck in my mind ever since; this particular talk (Please tag them if you remember their name) involved the speaker customizing their StreamDeck for use in Alteryx. StreamDecks are essentially keyboards with keys that trigger customizable macros, so the speaker used it to bring keybindings to Alteryx that were novel. Things like a button to drop specific tiles onto the canvas or open certain prompts really blew my mind. It reminded me of the possibilities that Vim offers. Vim is a lightweight text editor that, at its core, prioritizes efficiency above all else. Simply put, once you get used to Vim's system of keybindings and commands, you never really want to use your mouse ever again. For example, one of my favorite commands is dap, which (D)eletes (A)round a (P)aragraph. That's it, 3 quick keystrokes. What if we had a similar system for Alteryx? Imagine typing "/" to start a search in the canvas. Following that with "Select" to highlight all Select tools. You could then use "n" or "N" to navigate forwards and backwards between results. If you know a specific tool's id number you could type something like "i36formula" to (I)nsert a formula tool after the tool with the id 36. Switching between workflows or navigating a large number of open workflows could be as easy as 2 or 3 keystrokes. You get the gist. These prospects also got me thinking about Vim's approach to configuration in general. Through a fairly simple system (to be honest this is an assumption; the man pages are too long for me) Vim allows for customization of user settings through commands. I think this could be great inspiration for some sort of system that exposes the color palettes of the program in a sophisticated way that would allow the community to generate custom color schemes. This could also allow popular schemes such as Catpuccin or Gruvbox (or Solarized Osaka if you're cool) to be imported via some sort of XML document. This document could also be used as a general config file for each user. I think the bones of these kinds of systems are already within the platform, but it would definitely be a big lift for the developers to complete.
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