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This post explains how to get the Alteryx email tool to insert line breaks. Watch or read at bigmountainanalytics.com/how-to-include-line-breaks-in-an-alteryx-email

This is post 3 in my Power Automate for beginners series. The first post helped users get oriented in menus. The second post explained actions and triggers. This post explains the concept of dynamic content, which are the building blocks of Power Automate. Learn this and more tips for building Power Automate flows. Blog post available at: bigmountainanalytics.com/building-developing-in-power-au...

This video discusses Power Automate triggers and actions. More specifically, I'll explain the different types of triggers and how to find and use actions to create a flow. The video supplements a blog post found at bigmountainanalytics.com/exploring-power-automate-triggers-and-actions

This is the first in a series of posts oriented towards beginner Power Automate users. If you are just getting started with Power Automate, this is the place for you! Read on to get started with Power Automate! Go to bigmountainanalytics.com/getting-oriented-with-power-automate for the associated blog post.

TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 00:50 Begin with the end in mind 01:29 Creating input property controls for use on yaxis 03:41 Creating input property controls for use in titles 06:05 Input property controls with type curves 06:54 Wrap Up This post is part 4 of my series on learning how to use Spotfire property controls. Watch to learn how to create an input property control and connect to a visualizati...

TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 00:24 Basic Steps 00:50 Create Property Control 03:02 Attach Property Control with Custom Expression 06:04 Wrap Up Full blog post found at bigmountainanalytics.com/how-to-use-list-box-multiple-select-in-spotfire-text-areas This post explains how to create list box (multiple select) in Spotfire. Learn how to give your users more flexibility.

TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 00:34 What we will create 01:06 Step 1 Create property control 03:03 Step 2 Attach control to visualization 03:45 Syntax Explanation 05:27 Wrap up Two weeks ago, I kicked off a series on learning to use all of Spotfire property controls. I started with drop-downs and today we are looking at list boxes, which are very similar to drop-downs. They just look a bit different. ...

TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 01:00 Spotfire Page Navigation 02:32 Creating Action Controls 04:13 How to use the IronPython scripts 07:46 Explanation of the IronPython script A user reached out to me on LinkedIn last week with questions about an IronPython script he found in the TIBCO Community. The script attaches to a drop-down property control and helps users jump from page to page. Buttons are usu...

Part 1 of a 7 part series. This video explains how to create a drop-down property control in Spotfire Text areas. Full post found at bigmountainanalytics.com/how-to-create-drop-downs-in-spotfire-text-areas 0:00 0:53 Create property control 3:30 Attach property control to visualization 4:40 Syntax explained 6:25 Find document properties in menu 6:50 Find column properties in menu

This post explains how to find and add new Alteryx tools, macros, and workflows from the Alteryx Gallery via the File menu.

Using a workflow output as an input in the same workflow can be tricky. How do you make sure the output is completely written before being used as an input? A few months ago, I showed how the CReW macro tool, Parallel Block Until Done, can be used to control the order of operations in a workflow so that the output is fully written before the input is used. The CReW macro creator, Mark Frisch, r...

Check out this post for an explanation of 3 runtime settings that will make your workflow run faster and reduce dev time. Full post at bigmountainanalytics.com/runtime-settings-to-make-workflows-run-faster

This video explains how to programmatically remove columns with all zeros or nulls from Alteryx workflows with just a few tools. Supporting blog post found at bigmountainanalytics.com/programmatically-remove-columns-with-zeros-or-nulls

I love that I can run huge amounts of data thru Alteryx. However, I also have to think about how much data I'm going to take from Alteryx and push into a BI application like Spotfire or PowerBI. As a general rule, less is more. Now, you may think you can't do anything to reduce the size of your data set without cutting columns or rows, but that's not true. Read on to learn two quick tricks to m...

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