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Chained apps and Access denied error

David-Carnes — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:18:24 GMT

OK Alteryx gurus, this one's got me flummoxed.

I can create a two apps and chain them, test1.yxwz and test2.yxwz. The former writes data to %temp%..\test1_output.yxdb and the latter reads from it.

When I publish to my Private Studio in our Gallery, it runs fine and if I share it to the Public Gallery a coworker can run it.

When the same coworker publishes the same thing to her Private Studio it fails at file output time:
Error creating file "filepath_was_here_but_I_removed_it\test1_output.yxdb ":Access is denied.

I am in the Administrators group on the server and she is not. I am a Curator of the Gallery and she is an Artisan.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

David

Re: Chained apps and Access denied error

TylerNg — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 19:17:31 GMT

Hi @David-Carnes,

Do you have a Run As or Service Account configured on your Alteryx Server? See this article explaining Workflow Credentials on Gallery: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Server-Knowledge-Base/How-Workflow-Credentials-Work-on-a-Private-Gallery/ta-p/176171?advanced=false&collapse_discussion=true&q=workflow%20credentials&search_type=thread

If the workflow is running as your Colleague's user account then her account will need Write permissions to the directory the workflow is writing to. See this article: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/324067/how-to-set-folder-security-for-shared-folders

Tyler