Custom odd/even row coloring in the Table tool
Have you ever had a table where you wanted to use odd/even row coloring, but wanted the grouping to vary based on the data? Perhaps you have a field in your data like this:Field111223444It would be...
View ArticleWeb Links in Reports
A number of people have asked how they might embed web links in their Alteryx HTML reports. This is a good task for the Text tool's Expert Mode.Expert Mode is a way for you to custom craft your own...
View ArticleNew in 5.0: Spatial Data in Formulas
One of our goals for spatial data in Alteryx is that it isn't really any different than other data. Anywhere that it makes sense to manipulate spatial data the same way you manipulate numbers or...
View ArticlePolar Graph Module
In mathematics, the polar coordinate system is a two-dimensional coordinate system in which each point on a plane is determined by a distance from a fixed point and an angle from a fixed direction.We...
View ArticleReading Multiple XLS Tables
There was a question on the Alteryx forums today about reading multiple XLS tables. This is the kind of thing that the DynamicInput tool is designed for, except for 1 problem. There is no way in...
View ArticleA Map Making Machine
The source code and sample modules for this post can be found at the bottom of this post.I never cease to be amazed at all of the things that Alteryx can be made to do. I was recently on a call with a...
View ArticleBox and Whisker Chart
The new Charting tool that will be in 6.0 contains a chart type called "Box and Whisker". For those of you who are not familiar with that type of chart, basically it is a statistical type of chart,...
View ArticleAlteryx Engine Update
Wasn't summer supposed to be a quiet time? It feels like things are moving faster than ever here at Alteryx, so why not have a release? I'm excited to announce the release of version 6.2 of Alteryx...
View ArticleAlteryx Map Changes for Alteryx 7.0 with MapServer 6
This blog post is referring to functionality that will be in our next major release. Beta users can preview this feature in the latest Beta release of Alteryx. Please send an email to...
View ArticleUsing the Reporting Table tool to create a Legend
I have been using the Reporting tools a lot lately as I have been working on a Consumer Profiling wizard for Demographics Now. I have become pretty handy with them and figured I’d blog about a little...
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