Having spent a few days experimenting with setting up a build process for creating an Electron-based application thought I would put together a post describing the setup. First, a disclaimer that this is still a work in progress and as with everything within the JavaScript world it seems like there are a thousand ways to…
This is post is taken from the WIki for Alteryx Omnibus library. The technical details of how plug-ins work within Alteryx will be covered in later posts of the Beyond Alteryx Macros series. This is a walk-through of creating a custom tool for Alteryx using the Omnibus framework. The tool we are going to create…
Updated to version 0.5.3 to correct major bug in the XML Input tool After a fair degree of restructuring and rewriting, version 0.5.2 0.5.3 of OmniBus tool has been released to GitHub. Alteryx Omnibus Unit Tests Release Page This version represents a separation of the framework and the add-ins hopefully making it easier for others to…
You can download the new tool here. I have spent a couple of days understanding the methods of the new Formula UI in Alteryx. Based on this I have put together a new UI of the RegEx tool. Leveraging off some of the parts of the Formula tool it supports a preview and syntax highlighting.…
While I am writing this as part of the series on the Alteryx SDK, many of the techniques can be used when working with Alteryx in general. This is the third post in my series on extending Alteryx via its SDKs and APIs. The first post gave a brief overview of Alteryx as a platform…
Alteryx has released version 11 of both the designer and the server. It has a lot of nice improvements and few changes worth being aware of. I don’t use the server so this post is just going to concentrate on the designer and the features I have noticed. The move towards HTML5 based property panels…
Updated the links to versions 1.2.1 as a file was missing from 1.2 The latest release (version 1.2) of my Alteryx formula add-ins project (now called Alteryx Abacus with thanks to Chris Love) is now available. These are a set of utility functions for use wherever a formula can be used within Alteryx. The functions…
Back in September last year, the Guardian published a fantastic visualisation looking at house price affordability in the United Kingdom. They took the Prices Paid data from the Land Registry and computed some descriptive statistics about it, such as the median and range. The raw data is easily available from data.gov.uk, and they provide monthly,…
This is in many ways related to the Beyond Alteryx Macros series, and how it all works will be described in detail in later posts within that series. This release is primarily a tidy up of the framework and fixing some naming mistakes in the code. It also includes the release of the first proof…
Last week, I attended the Alteryx Inspire Europe conference at Kings Place, London. This was the first time they had hosted the event outside of the US, and it was a great success with fantastic speakers and events, as well as selling out to over 400 people. The night before the conference kicked off, about…
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