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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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Executing external programs/batches/scripts from inside a workflow

Even when there are some operations that Alteryx won’t do for you, it offers tools to perform them. One of these tasks, which is very frequent when working with files, is to create folders and copy or move existing files.

In this recipe, we’ll use the Run Command tool to execute external commands, also called shells, from within Alteryx. Doing this leverages our potential to build, call, or execute external applications from within a workflow.

Getting ready

We have a test set for you to follow along with here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Alteryx-Designer-Cookbook/tree/main/ch12/Recipe1.

You can try this recipe with your own data without any prerequisites, so feel free to do so.

To use the bonus feature of zipping files, you need to have 7-Zip installed on your computer. You can download 7-Zip from here: https://www.7-zip.org/.

We are going to use a dynamic batch file, which we...

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