So I have now completed both the Solution Architect Associate and Developer Associate certifications and thought I would share my thoughts from the process. Why Bother? For a long time, I haven’t been particularly bothered by doing any certifications. I have always believed in proving myself in the work I do, and this was particularly…
This post is the start of a small series around some of the functionality coming in the Alteryx Abacus 1.4 release. While this post doesn’t directly use anything in the add-in, understanding the sequence of evaluation within an Alteryx expression is critical when working with variables (one of the big new features in the next…
At Inspire EU 18, I presented a talk on how to create custom functions for Alteryx. As I described, there are two options available – XML Macro functions and C++ Coded functions. In a previous post, I have gone through creating an XML function. This post will look at creating a very simple function –…
For the last four years Eric Wastl has produced ‘the Advent of Code’. This year Adam Riley challenged us to try and do it in Alteryx: #AdventOfCode Days 1-3 look very solvable with @alteryx! Who is in to see how far we can get? https://t.co/Ogq1O6Ps6o — Adam Riley (@AlteryxAd) December 3, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js As December…
This started out as a fun experiment to see if it was possible to replace the current PowerShell based installer for the Alteryx Abacus function library with an Analytic App, but I like the result so think this will be the new installer for it! Along the way used some GitHub REST APIs and a…
In the last post in this series, we created a standard Alteryx Macro which creates a grouped record id field. The goal of this post is to replace the interface with a JavaScript SDK based UI. We will cover creating the tool structure, creating the UI and packaging it all up as a YXI. Preparing…
This post is the first of a set of posts aiming to demonstrate different ways to build the same Custom Tool. The goal is to create a tool which does the same as the RecordID tool but supports Grouping and Sorting. While this isn’t a complicated thing to do within Alteryx, it will serve as…
I started blogging about the Alteryx SDKs about 15 months ago (Introduction to the SDK) to advertise its existence and show what is possible. At the time I wrote that first post, Alteryx 10.6 was the current version. The HTML/JavaScript SDK had been added in version 10.1 (as announced by Ned). Having just attended Inspire…
This post continues looking into the UI side of the Alteryx HTML/JS SDK. Specifically, this looks at how to create preview values using some of the methods found in the Formula Tool. As with the last post, it is based on examining the workings in version 11.0, but I believe nothing has changed in 11.3…
Happy to announce the release of version 1.3 of the Alteryx Abacus functions (well on the 7th August!). This release adds some new functions, corrects a few issues (particularly around installation). The full release notes are on the project’s wiki. For the first time, I have had the opportunity to test the functions within an…
