Yet another custom tool for Alteryx to fill a hole in the file handling capabilities without resorting to using the Run Command tool. Available to download and install from Github (https://github.com/bobpeers/Alteryx_SDK_Delete) or you can grab a sample workflow including link to the tool from the Alteryx Public Gallery (https://gallery.alteryx.com/#!app/File-Delete/5f4770d8826fd309c4f9e427) The tool uses the standard Python …
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Credentials – Custom Alteryx Tool
Why Saving Credentials is Hard 🔐 Saving credentials for use in an Alteryx workflow is a very common use case. Maybe you use an API and need to save Client keys or secrets and getting these credentials into a workflow without hard coding is tricky. It’s common to either read from a text file located …
Custom Alteryx Tools
So far I’ve written four Alteryx tools based on the Alteryx Python SDK. You can install by downloading the yxi file under the releases tab in GitHub and simply double click to install. The tools will be available in the Alteryx Tool menus and function just like the built-in tools that ship with Alteryx. Data …
File Hashing in Alteryx
Identifying Duplicate Files Imagine you have a folder full of files, all with different names, where you need to identify which, if any, are duplicates. You could use the file size but it’s not a guarantee the files are exactly the same just because they are the same size. Hashing files is an easy way …
Loading Private Python Libraries to Alteryx at Runtime
The python tool in Alteryx is a great resource that I often use but it can easily get very cluttered with lots of reusable code that could easily be moved out and imported as a library. Unfortunately by default you can’t just use the standard import statement since the location of your workflow at runtime …
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Converting xls to xlsx files in Alteryx
There are numerous threads on the Alteryx Community where people are asking how to covert xls files to xlsx. The solutions generally suggest one of two approaches, either Read the file in with an Input Data tool then output again in the new format Use the Run Command tool to use an an Excel component …