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Submission GuidelinesWould be good to create an Alteryx Connect plugin for Tableau so that you can access Connect from Tableau? Would improve user experience if the user can access the information catalog without leaving their BI tool. So for example, have an Alteryx Connect sidebar in Tableau to allow you to search for a table or file then click and add as a data source and immediately start data discovery/analysis.
We use Connect widely among hundreds of users. During a lot of concurrent sessions Connect begin to work slow and unstable.
It is nice to have high workload detection - to warn users about potential problems/instability/slow response (either by email or via some banner at the Home page).
Please add possibility to sort and filter by any field in any asset, which has internal table. For example - column list in table, table list in schema. Or in "Used in " widget. as for now - sort operation is only applicable for name field. it is not convenient for long lists.
Hi Alteryx team,
It would be great to have a loader for Azure HDInsight. I am aware that there is a loader available for HDFS but a lot of companies are migrating to HDInsight.
Thank you very much for considering this idea.
Regards,
Jan Laznicka
Our department has a site that manages request access to database, application...etc. The user will have better experience with the tool when they can click on the request access button and it directs them to the form that we use.
We can tag all objects but when we want to find all the objects with a specific tag that is not possible.
In the advanced search it should be possible to search for all objects. with a specific tag.
The tag should be a part to the search boost.
Example. I have 10 tables that I tag "Finance". When users search for finance the tables should appear even though finance is not a part of the table name, column names or description
Each workflow state has a very useful option: «Persistent» flag.
I understand how it works, but I would like to setup the system somehow to allow users to see public state by default.
My approach is simple. A lot of users visit Alteryx Connect for searching and reading. And I want to show them ‘public’ (official, approved) state of objects by default, not draft versions.
If the user would like to edit an asset, he/she can exit from public mode explicitly.
Big organizations have strong security policies and one of our potential customers would like to distinguish superadmin actions (login, change the config, change permissions) from other action. For example, they ask to change logging level (from INFO to WARN) when superadmin is logging in.
Our customers would like to see propagated data lineage. For example, if some columns in different tables are linked together, obviously, tables have dependencies as well. So it is a good option to have the possibility to view child objects' relationships. It allows analysing impact and data lineage between objects deeper.
Manage permissions based on entry type. E.g. I set up some folders structure and I’d like to allow to users only create glossary terms, not new folders. So if I set up CREATECHILD permissions, it allows to create subfolders as well.
Hi Alteryx team,
It would be great if it was possible to install/upgrade and configure Alteryx Connect using scripts. This would enable us to deploy Alteryx Connect using script deployment tools such as Urbancode Deploy. This functionality was recently requested by one of our customers, who has most of their application installations/upgrades automated this way.
Thank you very much for considering this idea.
Kind regards,
Jan
Hello,
I'd like to suggest a "view as" on each page (like facebook) or a clear identifier that only certain people can view page.
As an admin, I have to set permission setting for different group. It would be helpful to clearly see the permission setting as sometimes I forgot.
Thank you.
Dean has inspired me to want Voice Activated Alteryx Connect so while I'm having my coffee in the morning I can have Alterexa explain the new data sources that were curated yesterday! Please make this happen!
Hi Alteryx Connect team,
I would like to propose a change to a currently available feature - the alternate names.
On our client deployment, we are loading a number of databases, Alteryx Galleries and reporting servers. For the business users, some of the automatic names that are assigned to these source systems do not make much sense. Would it be possible to enable the alternate names for front-end editing after automatic loading? I know that the feature is available even for these assets, but I guess it is disabled in the config files.
Thank you very much for considering this idea.
Kind regards,
Jan Laznicka
Hi Alteryx Team,
We are very glad that the custom field functionality is available in Alteryx Connect. We were wondering, if it would be possible to enhance this functionality and enable additional features like the following:
Thank you very much for considering these ideas.
Kind regards,
Jan Laznicka
Hello Alteryx Team,
Would you consider creating a metadata loader for Databricks? I can imagine this being a part of the Analytical workflows section and be catalogued in a similar way like Alteryx workflows. On a number of clients, we are seeing Databricks jobs being used as a complement to Alteryx workflows and a possibility to have them both catalogued in Alteryx Connect would be of great benefit.
Thank you very much for considering this idea.
Regards,
Jan Laznicka
I'm using HP Vertica as a data source of Tableau.
At this time I'm considering to install metadata management tool in my company.
But there is no name of HP Vertica on available list of Alteryx Connect.
I would be grateful if Alteryx could release a metadata loader of HP Vertica.
The share of Vertica increase gradually in Japan.
We have some scheduled workflows that utilize the download tool for API calls. When we scrape them with connect there aren't any references to them in the "Relationships" or "Data Connections" areas.
Even if this is something that would be difficult for Alteryx to scrape through a workflow, I would love the ability to create entities like this and manually connect them as a data source. Like we have some partners where there 10 to 15 API calls are required to pull the entire data set. It would be great to know which workflows reference those APIs so that if changes are made on their side, we can easily identify which workflows are impacted.
I published a workflow today that scans a directory for files and then pushes them to a Dynamic Input. I noticed that on Connect there is no relationship there anywhere referencing that we are scraping a directory.
Connect has the db inputs and outputs and the "File Input" that references what the Dynamic input is originally set to go find, but there is nothing referencing the directory other than any notes that I have added to the description.
The reason that I think this may be important. We connect to a folder where FTP files are dumped by a powershell script and we want to go through that folder with Alteryx and pull and upload as needed. However the file that existed in the original input (when we created this workflow) no longer exists. So the visual relationship is broken in Connect as soon as that file is dropped. If perhaps we don't have a tool that references this sort of connection to a directory, having the ability to designate a dynamic connection to the original file might be good instead. We just want to be able for those in the future to reference a location, rather than a file that hasn't existed in a while.
@OndrejCsummarizes connect as "a state-of-the-art Data Catalog with a social twist".
I define it in a broader fashion as data analytics social network, a collective intelligence or #datahive...
I would propose adding Analytics projects and related documents and the relevant relationship data;
into the picture so that any team can track their Data Science project progress there...
Here is a nice process flow view of a DS process
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/team-data-science-process/overview
A Microsoft Project view of the Analytics projects at hand...