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…
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…
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…
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…
