Macro path changed from Absolute to External

Hi All,

I'm seeing an issue while publishing into Gallery from Designer. "Absolute Path" of the Macros used in the workflow are changed "_externals\1\<macro_name>".

I made sure, workflow path is absolute. but still gets changed to externals path.

This change only happens to Macros used in the workflow, not to input files.

Server was recently upgraded to 2020.4. we haven't encountered such issues before. Please help!

Regards

Arun

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Arun_pep

We have found a way to resolve the issue. Please follow the below steps

Step 1: check highlighted property in Options->User Settings->Edit User Settings as below

Step 2: Manage the assets of Macro tool. New tab will be available in configuration now. Un-check all the rows. By doing this, Alteryx won’t package these Macros while deploying to Gallery/Export it

All the Macros that have similar issues can be configured this way to avoid the issue

After doing Step 1 and 2. We are good to deploy the workflow to Gallery/Export as usual

Additional Notes

So is it a bug in latest version

Yes and No (just my perspective). The override steps does work fine when we tried creating sample workflow in 2020.4. but it appears, it doesn’t work well when the workflow was initially built in previous version(don’t know if it’s specific to any version). May be, the workflows that were built in this 2019.3 are having issues(just an assumption)

Regards

Arun

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patrick_digan

@Arun_pep When you save to the gallery, you'll want to click on workflow options and then manage workflow assets. You'll then want to make sure that the box isn't checked so it doesn't get packaged.

Arun_pep

Thank you Patrick_digan.Yes, I made sure of that as well. Manage workflow asset didn't cause the issue

I tried few things to debug (if it will help to understand)

Approach 1

I just published a dummy new workflow with Macros on it to Gallery. It worked as expected(Absolute path didn't get changed)

Approach 2

Tried to delete the Macro in existing workflow and re-insert it again. still we have the issue(changing from Absolute path to externals path)

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