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…
Beyond Alteryx Macros – Alteryx’s JavaScript SDK: an unofficial guide Since version 10.1 of Alteryx, there has been an HTML/JS SDK built in for creating custom tools. I have spent some time digging around and thought would share some tips on getting started. As with all tools within Alteryx, there are two parts to the…
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.…
