Alteryx designer version update

[Sandy8704]

Hi Team,

I will be updating to Alteryx 2020.2.3

Di I need to uninstall previous Alteryx designer before installing new one or it will be uninstalled automatically when I run new Alteryx 2020.2.3 designer installation ?

Are there any best practices I need to follow for designer and server installation?

Thank you for your help

[mbarone]

Hi @Sandy8704 ,

No need to uninstall manually.  Part of the install process is to "uninstall" any previous versions.  Pretty straight forward install for Designer.

[echuong1]

As mentioned above, the upgrade process is pretty seamless for Designer. Simply download the installer and then execute. The installer will automatically identify previous versions and uninstall. With that, I will note that is has to be the same type of version for it to uninstall (admin versus non-admin). If you currently have non-admin and then run the installer for admin, you will have two versions. That is not necessarily an issue, just a preference as to if you want two versions.

You also mentioned Server. For Server, you should stop the services from running prior and take a backup of the underlying DB. There may be a need to upgrade your mongoDB as well depending on which version you currently have. See this article for information on all of this under Upgrade Server:

https://help.alteryx.com/current/server/install-or-upgrade-server

Installers for both Designer and Server can be found here: http://downloads.alteryx.com/