Alteryx Designer Desktop Knowledge Base

When using the download tool with an SFTP or HTTPS connection, you may receive the error - Error transferring data: failed initialization. This often occurs when Designer can't agree on a cipher suite to communicate with the host server.

How to check the current Salesforce API version of the Salesforce Input Tool being utilized.

Here we’ll delve into uses of the Download Tool on our way to mastering the Alteryx Designer.

Guide on configuring and capturing a Fiddler trace for Troubleshooting issues.

API connections give access to many web-based applications, database systems, or programs by exposing objects or actions to a developer in an abstracted format that can easily be integrated into another program.

A list of cURL commands that can be used to help troubleshoot errors when connecting to HDFS

Alteryx provides many built-in data connectors and there are additional ones available for download from the Gallery.

Error "Timestamp is not close enough to the current server time" when running a workflow that contains an Oauth Macro in Alteryx Designer.

Suppose you have a datetime stamp in a dataset for the timezone where you are. This dataset includes data for locations in timezones other than the one you're in and you want to convert your datetime stamp to reflect the local time zones of the locations in your data.

Steps for Harvesting Data in Google Big Query!

Troubleshooting error with Publish to Tableau Server tool: TypeError: Cannot read property ‘token’ of undefined

If the API that you are working with requires you to sign or authenticate your requests, it may utilize an implementation of OAuth 2.0 or another authentication method to show that you have the access needed to consume the web service. There are some key words that you can look for in the API documentation that you are using that will help you quickly choose the appropriate grant flow to use in Alteryx.

Tab 1 - Basic \n URL : The URL for the resource you are trying to access must come from an upstream tool and is the only field required by Alteryx to configure the Download tool. Based on the API you are trying to pull information from (or send data to), other information will be required such as headers and/or a payload.

Guide to currency

One of the greatest strengths of modern web APIs is their flexible, developer-friendly nature, which provides numerous options for both the provider and the user. However, this flexibility can make it more intimidating for business users to deal with the various data formats that these APIs provide. The purpose of this article is to familiarize you with the main data formats used by the vast majority of web APIs, and provide the basic knowledge that will allow you to confidently process the data they return into a typical tabular format.

Now you are ready to take your workflow one step further and add some error checking. If something is wrong with your request or something goes wrong on the server, an API will usually return an error message. It is useful to capture this information and clearly display it to the user of the connector. The Message tool will come in handy here. It will help you to troubleshoot the error and actually stop the workflow from processing if you would like.

Before reviewing this section, we recommend watching our video on Standard Macros. In this section we will explain how to turn your working connector workflow into an Alteryx macro so it can be used as a tool within other workflows. The Interface tools will let you control which parameters and inputs can be entered into the connector macro. Interface tools take user inputs to update other tools inside the macro.

The error above is usually due to a company firewall restriction. If you are receiving the error above when installing, please download run the individual installers from this page:http://downloads.alteryx.com.

Tired of pulling conversion rates manually? Me too!   Let’s build ourselves a currency converter in Alteryx Designer version 10.1 using the http://fixer.io/ exchange rates. Fixer.io is a free JSON API for current foreign exchange rates published by the European Central Bank. The rates are updated daily around 3PM CET.   The first thing we will do is gather the API documentation from the Fixer.io website. This will give us the URL we need to make our REST API call. If you are unfamiliar with making REST calls please take a look at Tasha’s

Web scraping, the process of extracting information (usually tabulated) from websites, is an extremely useful approach to still gather web-hosted data that isn’t supplied via APIs. In many cases, if the data you are looking for is stand-alone or captured completely on one page (no need for dynamic API queries), it is even faster than developing direct API connections to collect.