topic Re: xydb detective work in Alteryx Designer Desktop Discussions

xydb detective work

CorCor — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:43:48 GMT

Is there anyway, based solely on a xydb file, to determine what workflow produced it?

Thanks

Corey

Re: xydb detective work

abacon — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:50:49 GMT

@CorCor I don't believe there is a way to find this out solely based on the yxdb file.

Bacon

Re: xydb detective work

CorCor — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:54:38 GMT

Yea.....I saw someone else ask from a few years ago with a similar outcome, and I was thinking.......maybe....?

<sigh>

Remember kids, document, document, document.

Re: xydb detective work

KGT — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:58:08 GMT

There's not unfortunately, and you can see the makings of a yxdb here if you are really interested.

If you have a drive of 2000 workflows for instance and you know/suspect one of them created it, you can find out which workflows have an output tool configured to that output though. This is not exactly what you asked, but thought I would add it in case it helps...

Basically, take a list of workflows, read them all in as csv with no delimiter (field size caution), search for your filename in the XML, find which file that was in. I also have a version somewhere that grabs the 10 rows before and after the filename being found so you get all the tool info as well (output vs Input etc). I haven't posted a workflow because all the versions of this I have handy are all configured for client projects.

Re: xydb detective work

dreldrel — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:49:20 GMT

Maybe you can create a log process in the workflow to show which process creates the file? If you are not solely rely on yxdb files