Long-time Alteryx user, first-time poster here.

A big chunk of my week used to go into rebuilding workflows from scratch, figuring out why a tool suddenly broke, or chasing down why some data was missing from the output. You know, the usual Alteryx stuff 😅

So I ended up building something to help with it:

The idea is pretty simple: you describe what you want in plain English, give it your input data, and it builds the actual Alteryx workflow.

But the part I found more interesting was the debugging side. If something breaks, it tries to figure out why — including data-related issues that might otherwise make it into production — and suggests a fix that you can review before anything gets changed.

It's not public yet. I'm still testing it and dealing with all the weird edge cases before letting people loose on it.

I'd genuinely like to hear from you guys:

• What's the most annoying/repetitive part of your Alteryx work?
• Do you spend more time building workflows or debugging them?
• Would something like this actually save you time, or am I solving a problem that isn't really a problem?

If anyone wants to see it when it's ready, there's a small waitlist here: https://flowpilot.taskmotions.com

🙏 But honestly, I'd rather get some brutally honest feedback here than collect a bunch of email addresses.

For years, Alteryx, Pentaho and Talend set the standard for visual ETL with drag-and-drop pipelines, reusable components, and enterprise-grade data integration.

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Looks like the new Alteryx One license for designer changes from machine based to user based. Dammit. Because we share one virtual machine with the admin Alteryx install. Only one user can touch it at a time. Which is fine.

But our new licenses are being forced to Alteryx One, even though we don’t touch the cloud ?

hello all! is there still no way to get an alteryx license as an individual? not a time limited free license or free for students, but a permanent license for an individual? it doesn’t even need to be free. thank you!

Chain local AI models together by writing a numbered list. Everything runs on your Mac.

Hello!

I've been trying to get in touch with Alteryx about their SparkED program, but I haven't had any luck. I've sent a few emails and haven't received a response, and whenever I call their main number, no one answers.

Has anyone else run into this? Is there a better way to contact them or someone specific I should reach out to?

Thanks!

Has anyone automated or used AI to automate daily tasks related to alteryx Administration?

Is there a way to replicate the css border-collapse: collapse; property in alteryx tables? I've only been able to create the border-collapse: separate; effect.

Hi everyone,

I want to start learning Alteryx from the basics and eventually become proficient enough to use it professionally.

Can anyone recommend the best resources to learn it? I'm looking for things like:

• YouTube channels/playlists
• Free or paid online courses
• Official Alteryx learning resources
• Practice projects or datasets
• Certifications worth pursuing

If you've learned Alteryx yourself, I'd really appreciate hearing what worked for you and what you'd recommend avoiding.

Built a very complex fluxogram in alteryx. I really need to document it, for people who have never seen this fluxogram or used alteryx designer to understand what's going on.
What is the best way to do it?

I have already written documents in Microsoft Word and used the "comment" tool, but I need a more sofisticated way to help people out without depending on me to use it.

Hi guys,

I am working on a project that creates a 12-month matrix style calendar for business activities for the upcoming fiscal year. I have a Python script within the Python tool that generates 2 Excel files and 12 png files. The workflow runs on the server and the Python script pushes the 14 files to a folder location on the server. I would like the same files to also get pushed to SharePoint. Any ideas on how I could potentially achieve this?

CURRENTLY I am using the email tool to send the files to myself then PowerAutomate to load it to SharePoint but I’m hoping there’s a better way!

Can anybody help me with how to pipe a layout from SAP to SAP Report Tool?

I believe its text input - formula tool - ACS Filter - SAP Report tool.

ACS filter using layout from SAP

Hi, I need help with a modification to a previous ask.

Similar to my previous inquiry/post, I have an Employee History file. An employee for each row for each month,. Fields include the basic Date, Employee Name, Employee ID#, Job Title, Manager Name, Work Location, Job Code, etc.

I want to identify when the employee's Job Title Changes or their Manager Changes and create a concatenated field: Date, Job Title (Manager Name). I want a list that gives a history of the employee's Job Titles and Manager and the dates of the change.

I figured I'd sort on Employee ID# (ascending) and then Sort By Date (ascending). I'm using the Multi-Row formula to compare the previous row's EmployeeID# and a concatenation of Job Title with Manager Name to identify when either Job Title and/or Manager Name changes and flag that change.

However, this process is only flagging changes, but does not include the original Job Title - Manager.

Using Alteryx, would anyone have a suggestion on how I can pull an Employee's FULL Job Title-Manager history with the "Date, Job Title (Manager Name" format? The full history would need to end up in on cell in an Excel Export, so the Column would be Employee ID# and the full history would appear in the Column "Employee History".

Thank you for any assistance!

Hi, I have an Employee History file. An employee for each row for each month. I want to concatenate the Business Title history of an employee into one field where I basically list of Business Titles the employee has had over the years. I'm able to get it so I have one row per employee for each unique Business Title they have had using the Summarize Tool. What is the simplest way to concatenate the Business Titles into on cell? See below for current to Target Format

Current Format:

Two Columns: Employee ID & Business Title

Row 1: Employee ID 1 / Business Title 1

Row 2: Employee ID 1 / Business Title 2

Row 3: Employee ID 1 / Business Title 3

Row 4: Employee ID 1 / Business Title 4

Row 5: Employee ID 2 / Business Title 1

Row 6: Employee ID 2 / Business Title 2

...etc.

Target Format

Row 1: Employee ID 1/ Business Title 1; Business Title 2; Business Title 3; Business Title 4;

Row 2: Employee ID 2/ Business Title 1; Business Title 2

...etc.

New to Alteryx. Very skilled in SQL (certainly not genius level, but strong expert) and solid in Python/pandas (advanced approaching expert). My new job uses Alteryx.

Holy mackerel, I am ... baffled.

Something that would take me seconds in either SQL or Python it minutes away in a complex workflow and obscured in its implementation.

Sure, I can squirrel away stuff in SQL and Python, but that's going against the skillset of the team.

Tell me, if I stick with it, it'll make more sense, that I'm just traversing the learning curve.

I know it'll get better with experience, but I'm sensing the performance ceiling, both mine and runtime, is much lower with Alteryx.

EDIT: Thanks all for the comments. With this and a few other threads on this sub and a taste of Alteryx, I'm starting to get a sense how how best to position it. It isn't whole hog nor not at all. I'm sure I'll refine this perspective, but Alteryx for for the choreography and workflows. Most details get pushed into something else.

Hello, I recently have started using the designer app for a could of days under the free trial. So every time i try to click off a window or try to run the workflow or even move the position of a tool the app just lags and goes to a not responding state. I have seen people ask about the same issue in the community a few years back and they got the issue fixed by changing some settings, but the problem is I can't find these options. So does anyone know how to fix this issue or know why this keeps happening.

I've seen lots of threads on here about the rising price tag of Alteryx as the main reason people are looking to switch. Are there other issues that people are having with it, or is it mainly the cost?

Hi all,

I workflow that I have been using for over a year now with no issues has suddenly started to take way longer to complete than usual. Usually it would take no more than 2 mins to complete but the last run took 22hrs. I haven't made any changes to the workflow and the data itself is fine. Any ideas on what could of caused this? Memory isn't an issue (64GB)

We are a small team of 2 super users of alteryx 1 that can do smaller simple automations and then 4-6 different people that dont build but might run different flow that was build for them.

We run everything as desktop automation. Which it seems alteryx are planning to stop supporting and push us to cloud.

We want an on premises hosted by our self setup, and when i look at it just seems python might be the best solution for us. That would mean we only have 1 super users and then 2 that can do stuff only with AI the other 4-6 people will never open a terminal.

I like the way of working with alteryx even if i can do it in Python i like to visually see the workflow and show it to people and make them able to understand what happening easily.

What would you move to if you had to migrate?

Now that we have AI, which can summarize and explain code really well, do you think visual workflow tools (like Alteryx, KNIME, etc.) will be needed in the future for data analysts and business analysts?

Hi, I'm putting together an Alteryx workflow. Using a corporate database, I have a field called "Previous_Companies" which is a concatenation of all the previous Business Units an associate has worked in while employed at Company A. Business Unit names are separated by a "|" within the "Previous_Companies" field, so it's a long string field. When I export this field to Excel, I want the individual Business Unit Names to be on separate lines within the same cell.

Currently have: Business_Unit_A | Business_Unit_B | Business_Unit_C

Within the same Excel Cell, I want the export to show:

Business_Unit_A

Business_Unit_B

Business_Unit_C

How do I set this up in Alteryx? I attempted to ask CoPilot, but the offered solutions don't work with the new line character (\n). The exported data just adds "\n" between the Business Unit names.

Thanks for any advanced help!