The last post covered the basic set up of TypeScript Electron application being built by WebPack. This post follows on with a couple of extra features mainly around debugging. Again the complete project can be download from github. Multiple Renderer Entry Points The current set up builds src\gui.tsx into the main entry point of the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This posted started as a question on the Alteryx community about finding the nearest underground (subway if you prefer!) station to an address. I don’t have much experience working with addresses and map data, but thought their was probably a way leveraging the APIs Google maps provide. This feels very much like “standing on the…
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