Alteryx Analytics Cloud Product Ideas

Hello,

Here what I have when I want to do an http requests in Plan :

Where is the entry for payload, body (like here, I have to specify my client_id..) ?

Edit : my bad, it was a post request and here the recommandation for get
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616#section-9.3

Create a function in the Formula tool to pull Customer Managed Telemetry data like User ID, Job ID, and Start and End Runtime when running the workflow, instead of navigating to the Jobs tab separately and forgo matching the Job ID.

I'm happy to see there is now a DateTimeNowPrecise function, but you still have to convert this to a datetime with a DateTime tool, then get the min and max of this field to determine runtime.

Hi Alteryx,

Most of our clients, particularly those from the government and financial sectors, have strict restrictions on cloud-based data storage. While they are open to using cloud products, they are concerned about the possibility of users uploading sensitive data to the cloud.

Given this, could you consider implementing a control that prevents data uploads to the cloud, while still allowing access to cloud-based features where necessary?

Being able to output data to Microsoft Dataverse tables via Alteryx Designer Cloud would be super helpful and a wonderful addition to this great tool. I need to be able to schedule a daily flow to output data to Dataverse tables. While my organization has Alteryx One, we have elected not to enable Cloud Execution for Desktop (for security or maintenance reasons) and we do not have Alteryx Server. So, I need a solution that works from Alteryx Cloud Designer.

Please create the functionality to be able to find Tool ID numbers within the frame of the canvas. When doing so now, I am only able to find tool names like Summarize, Data Cleansing, etc. For example, I want to be able to CTRL+F "152" and be taken to tool ID #152 directly on the canvas.

An added bonus would be to find by tool type like you can on Desktop.

We would like to have a means to capture

• which workflow was run,
• the user who ran it,
• if errors were encountered (like using the Events function in Desktop),
• Row count of each output generated (in our case it is Excel files. I'd like a way to show which output files were created, which tabs were created/written to the individual output file)
• Beginning and ending timestamps after workflow executes successfully. There is no performance profiling in Cloud, so this would be the only health check that the workflow is withstanding more data and tools being thrown at it.

For controls and audit purposes, we need the above items. For now, the tedious work-around recommended was to write all records that were written to Excel users to a database table. This is not ideal. 

Hello,

I have noticed the AACP is upgraded at a fast pace... however, I don't know when and now I discover the upgrade when I go sometimes on the Release Notes https://help.alteryx.com/AAC/en/release-notes.html

So an email notifications with the changes would be appreciated.

Best regards,

Simon

Hello,

Right now, there are a few filters available on the top of the window

Among the one Iwould like :
-status like status supported that would hide the "(Early Preview)".
-features (Import and Publish versus Import only)

I started migrating some processes from Desktop to Cloud, but I miss the email customize sending functionality in Cloud. Is it possible?

I would like to send a customized email after a successful execution, but I couldn't find the option to customize the email or attach a file.

If it is not possible, are there plans to implement this soon?

In a large enterprise, one of the perennial challenges is to manage changes to data over time.    The industry is moving towards a shift-left philosophy to handle this by starting to think about data contracts and contract testing.

What does this mean for Alteryx?

Well - if you look at the strategy that DBT is following, each workflow has a defined entry data contract, and a defined exit data contract - so that if anything changes you can immediately tell if you are going to break someone else's work.    This also sets you up for lineage in an important way - if you build in field and data-set level lineage from day zero - then you can look across an enterprise and answer questions like:

- If I remove this field - who will I impact downstream (e.g. other Alteryx users; Tableau dashboards etc)

- Who is using my data - so that I can talk to them about their data needs?    Who do I need to tell if my workflow fails

- has someone upstream of me changed their flow in a way that breaks me?

- Where does this field come from - looking across a series of flows and transformations (critical for regulatory requirements).

This kind of thinking is hard to add in afterwards - so it would be good to build this into the product in these early days so that this becomes a key foundational piece.

Hello all,

Sometimes, you find some messy worklow and you want to make it clean

You can align manually the tools but it would be better to have the exact same function than on Alteryx Designer on-premise :

Best regards,

Simon

When I rename a field in Alteryx - it would be valuable for Alteryx to look at all tools downstream from the select tool and say "Hey - you are using that field - do you want me to clean up the formulas etc".

A field is not just letters in a formula - a field is a logical concept / an object - so it should be relatively easy to inspect everywhere there's a dependance on this object downstream and just clean this up automatically.

This would get rid of all the painful toil of having to reconfigure tools, change formulae, change select tools etc - that can just all go away in a puff of Aidan Magic.

Hey all,

There is already an option to clean up data in the results section - but it's limited to only the cleanups that the Cleanse tool used to do in the on-prem version.

Please could you use an inspection of the field to see what cleanup may be relevant?

For example:

A_B - there's no need to offer to clean up numbers - or perhaps just visually decrease that option

    A_B - here the obvious cleanup is leading spaces

"A_B" - the obvious cleanup here is remove quotes

It seems that we can bring some smarts to this, since Alteryx AIDAN is AI enabled, to eliminate the toil of data cleansing.

Hi all,

I'm working through cloud quest 1 using the Alteryx Cloud Native experience - and it seems that there's an opportunity here to get rid of the need to know historical ways of working.

The example in this case is that there are 2 dates:

- 16-Jun-01

- 25-Dec-01

Now it seems that most people used either a RegEx or a DateTimeParse (which still uses the same specifiers since Alteryx 11 - https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/functions/datetime-functions.html#idp376621).   Additionally there doesn't seem to be a DateTimeParse tool in the platform yet in the CloudNative version.

However - given that we're living in the future now - it seems that it should be trivial to use a little AI to recognize that '16-Jun-01' is a date - and allow the user a right-click option to convert to a date.

Please can you consider doing a simpler method of cleaning up dates than forcing the user to remember the classic alteryx specifiers for dates since this is SUCH a common need

When people ask what's so great about designer desktop, one of the simple things I mention is the record count. I think this would be a great addition to designer cloud. As an example, here's a pointless workflow in designer cloud:

Seems ok, but here's the same thing in desktop:

By just looking at the picture, you can see that I messed up my join and my 780 records have ballooned to 608,400. I can also see that I didn't have any unjoined records pretty easily. Designer cloud has this record count information when you click on each tool, but I think they should display the counts on the canvas like desktop. 

Using Challenge 438 as an example, the crosstab in designer cloud needs to be dynamic for the new column names to ensure parity with desktop. Unless I'm missing something, you would need to click on the crosstab and manually reset it/add new fields anytime the data changes. Desktop would automatically pick up new fields.

Replace, ReplaceFirst, ReplaceChar and Regex_Replace in the cloud all have a limitation where arguments must be constants. Any attempt to use a column returns an error. This would a nice enhancement to have parity with Desktop. The below functions currently error out in cloud but work in desktop.

Replace(Column1,Column2, Column3)

Regex_Replace(Column1,Column2,Column3)

Could doesn't like that Column2 and Column3 are references to fields. It only works if you hardcode a string like "text". Desktop doesn't have this limitation.

Hi all,

When using the Sharepoint connector, using the Sites.Read.All permission on Service Principal does violate customer corporate security measures. The customer is requesting to implement certificate-based authentication for SharePoint Files. See ticket 00683632 for more information.

Thanks

Currently in Alteryx Cloud we cannot create groups of users.

Having groups of users means that sharing of content would be much more manageable (currently if I want to share a workflow I need to share it with users individually).

The ability to create groups of users and share content with them would be:

• More secure
  • tagging users individually makes it more likely to mistakenly include or exclude users
• More user-friendly
  • rather than having to remember and then tag all N users, I can create a single group and tag that 
• More unified
  • Alteryx Server, along with every other platform I can think of lets you create and manage groups of users. In fact it is always best practice to do so.

Thanks