Getting Started on the Alteryx Community

[JulieH]

Edited 7/26/18: This content is now available as a Knowledge Base article. You can find the most up to date version here: Getting Started on Community

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Welcome to the Alteryx Community!

At Alteryx, we’re extremely passionate about empowering people to deliver deeper insights quickly with intuitive workflows. We created this space as a peer-to-peer support channel for those people to come together, to gain valuable insights from one another, collaborate, and innovate around Alteryx products.

We want your journey here to be as great as can be, so we have put together a short list to help you get quickly familiarized with the Alteryx Community. We hope you find it useful!

• Need guidance to get started with Alteryx, or looking for extra practice to hone your skills? Be sure to stop by the Alteryx Academy. You'll also find a good number of helpful resources.
• Need help retrieving an old account or login in? See the Community & Analytics Gallery: Single Sign On FAQs
• Review the Alteryx Community Guidelines to understand what it means to be a member here
• Find out more about features and settings in the Community Help Documentation
• Introduce yourself to the rest of the community
• Meet the Community Team
• Personalize your experience, profile and how frequently you receive emails from us by diving into My Settings 
• Got a product idea? Review our Product Ideas Submission Guidelines &  Ideas Evaluation Criteria to understand how you can best contribute to our idea exchange.
• Keep an eye on the Alter.Nation Blog & Version History for the latest and greatest updates to our community
• Curious about user ranks? Read our User Ranks FAQs

Do you have suggestions on how we can improve the community experience? Please don’t hesitate to share your ideas on Improve the Community Experience. We look forward to hearing from you!

[DSAWYER]

Hi Julie,

Thanks for the warm welcome! Quick question! Can I find the getting started videos here or is that something within Alteryx itself?

[Joe_Mako]

@DSAWYER are you looking for http://www.alteryx.com/getting-started-training ?

[DSAWYER]

Yes i am .... Thanks for the information!!! I really appreciate it.

[DataBlender]

This is a really basic question, but how do you respond to a user using the @ symbol?

[patrick_digan]

@DataBlender the ability to mention people automatically unlocks at the asteroid level (your level is below your name). Here is a good post about it. If you want to do it manually, you would just need to get the person's name and userid and use the html tab to enter the below html. The userid can be found by hovering over someone's name and seeing what the digits are at the end. For example, I could mention you with the below html:

<li-user login="DataBlender" uid="5127"></li-user>

[DataBlender]

Thanks  @patrick_digan!

[MarqueeCrew]

Vivre sans Alteryx n’est pas proprement vivre!

[adamp]

This isn't coming up in my searching... just wondering about Stars and if there's any community etiquette? From what I can tell it's a kudo or a thumbs-up kind of thing?

[JessicaS]

That's a great question @adamp. 

I think most folks like to use the stars as a friendly acknowledgement (others may chime in)

I can tell you how I like to use them.  Firstly, if someone replies to a post to lend a hand to something I posted I like to give a star as a way to say thanks.  Additionally, if I'm reading through content and I find someone's post was helpful to me I like to give a star there.  Also, its fun to give stars to posts that you think are cool, creative, or generally neat and also to just give someone an acknowledgement. 

If you ever have any specific questions feel free to reach out to us. 

Thanks, and welcome!