Is it possible to get a diagram/list of all tools and their configuration from a workflow?

Question

Hi Alteryx,

I have a couple workflows that have been handed off to me and I'm in the process of building process maps to understand the data inputs, processing, and outputs for each. This is so I and any future Alteryx designers on my team can have a better understanding of what some of our legacy workflows are doing. I was wondering if it is possible to somehow get a list of all the tools in a workflow along with what they're doing?

For example, I have a workflow with 13 input tools (6 are SQL statements), 6 output tools, and several joins and formulas in between. Can I somehow extract this information from Alteryx and have those tool names outputted into a list and/or diagram?

If I remember correctly, there's a setting to see the XML view of an entire workflow... could I use the xml parse to achieve what I want?

acarter881 · Answer

Hey, @Alayna. I'm impressed with that transformation of data, but I find it more difficult to use that in Python versus importing the XML file itself.

Please see the spoiler. I'd save that text file as an XML file and import it directly into the Python tool. The Python tool does not require an input data stream.

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DataNath · Answer

Ah yes, looks that way for disabling the python timeout @Alayna - any way your admin can do this?

Alayna · Answer

Hi @acarter881 Thanks for the reply! I'm not too familiar with the python tool in Alteryx but I've coded before. I'm reading in the XML as a text input with no delimiter, then using cross tab to get it all back into one row. Then after reading, looks like I needed to convert a data frame to bytes before using the module. Do you have any ideas on the error?

XML test.yxzp