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…
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…
In the first part of this series, I gave an overview of the Alteryx platform and some of the functionality offered by the SDK. The first parts of the SDK I am going to look at concern adding additional functions into the formula function library. There are two methods of doing this: XML Macro functions…
Alteryx has a huge built in set of tools (about 170 tools in v10.1 I think), but when something is missing or you just have a specific way you want to do something, it has various options on how you can extend it. The simplest way (and one of the most flexible ways) is to…
