Alteryx Designer Error with Red X's? What kind of error is this?

[ddiesel]

Out of curiousity, I'm asking if anyone knows what type of error this is. Designer froze and areas of the canvas were covered in red X's. I'm on version 2018.4.

(the black boxes were added by me)

I was able to restart Alteryx and everything is working fine. Just curious as to what caused this type of error.

[mkacavas]

I see this error when I try to copy and paste from one workbook to another.  I'm using version 2020.3.5.

[SWalker]

Thanks, @jpoz 

I am repeatedly getting this error after downloading a workflow from the community, and then, adding the workflow to a tool container and copying/ pasting the container to a different workflow.  

[jpoz]

What version of Alteryx are you on?

[afellows]

Was there any solution found for this? I get this fairly often and alteryx ends up crashing afterwards. I think it is due to cached data but I can't narrow down the cause more than that. It doesn't appear that my RAM is all used up. Using Version: 2023.1.1.247 Patch: 2.

[ddiesel]

I also see this fairly often now in version 2022.1.1.42654, specifically in the overview pane. It continues to be a minor annoyance.

[juvillalobos]

Just so you know this is still happening on a weekly basis for me and my team. 

[kwhitaker]

This issue has been happening since 2019 across multiple versions of Alteryx.  I'm on 2023.1 and still experience it weekly.  Has anyone figured out how to prevent it from happening?

[john_watkins]

This is anecdotal at best, but one thing I have been doing when using either container controls OR tool containers (basically anything with a blue slider to "disable" the container) is to click to disable the control and then just wait.     It seems that it happens more if I disable a control with a lot of objects and don't give it time to refresh before it has had time to "Auto Configure" or the equivalent of hitting Function+F5 to re-validate the workflow.    Since doing that, I have had virtually no red "X" errors.    I also say a little prayer when disabling and make sure I've saved beforehand, so I am not 100% trustworthy that this is the fix :)