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Alteryx Designer Cookbook

Alteryx Designer Cookbook

By : Guisande
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Alteryx Designer Cookbook

Alteryx Designer Cookbook

4.9 (10)
By: Guisande

Overview of this book

Alteryx allows you to create data manipulation and analytic workflows with a simple, easy-to-use, code-free UI, and perform fast-executing workflows, offering multiple ways to achieve the same results. The Alteryx Designer Cookbook is a comprehensive guide to maximizing your Alteryx skills and determining the best ways to perform data operations This book's recipes will guide you through an analyst's complete journey, covering all aspects of the data life cycle. The first set of chapters will teach you how to read data from various sources to obtain reports and pass it through the required adjustment operations for analysis. After an explanation of the Alteryx platform components with a particular focus on Alteryx Designer, you’ll be taken on a tour of what and how you can accomplish by using this tool. Along the way, you’ll learn best practices and design patterns. The book also covers real-world examples to help you apply your understanding of the features in Alteryx to practical scenarios By the end of this book, you’ll have enhanced your proficiency with Alteryx Designer and an improved ability to execute tasks within the tool efficiently
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Macros and Apps

So far, we have worked with straightforward workflows within Alteryx. In this chapter, we will explore recipes to take Alteryx functionalities to another level, creating and reusing pieces of logic.

Alteryx’s help page defines a macro as follows:

A macro is a workflow or group of tools built into a single tool that can be inserted into another workflow. Create a macro to save an analytic process you perform repeatedly. Use the macro within a workflow without having to recreate the analytic process each time.

There are four types of macros:

  • Standard macro: This macro is designed to package a process into a workflow to be used as a tool.
  • Batch macro: This macro runs multiple times in a workflow and creates an output after each run. The macro runs once for each record or a selected group of records in data. The macro requires at least one control parameter tool as an input.
  • Iterative macro: This macro runs in the workflow...
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