Is there any news on Alteryx desktop support Oauth 2.0 for their email client?
There is still no official word on when Alteryx Desktop's built-in email client will support OAuth 2.0 authentication. Right now, OAuth 2.0 support is mostly for APIs and Alteryx Server. This means that desktop users still have to use older methods like basic credentials or app-specific passwords to connect to email.
We implemented this with Microsoft Graph successfully.
Expanding on this. I believe we are some of the earliest to successfully implement this with a scalable solution.
We successfully implemented this with two API calls using MSGraph. The first API call is with client_id, scope, client secret, and grant_type to get the bearer token. The second is the Graph URL with the Bearer token, sending the email JSON. The first formula tool has the email JSON which can simply be stored in a column. This can be attached to essentially any workflow to implement, and it can be used with Azure Key Vault or something similar. For testing purposes, I used a Text Input tool with Tenant ID and Client ID but these then can be accessed in the Vault when implementing.
