Drag and drop into work space does not work( v2023.1.1.200) - Running Elevated

[Sebastian_R]

Hello All,

Ever since updating Alteryx I have been unable to drag and drop excel and other source files onto the workflow canvas.

Instead I have to add an input tool and locate the file manually, which is far less efficient.

By reading through the board posts this seems to be caused by Alteryx runing in Elevated mode and WIndows restricting interactions between the file explorer and Aletryx as a result. I couldn't find a working solution, going back to 2016.

I have tried unisntalling Alteryx and installing the non-admin version but it is still running Elevated.

If anyone has figured out a solution to this it would be highly appreciated if you could share it!

Would be great if the Alteryx team could add an option to force running in non-elevated mode this as its a real productivity killer!

Sebastian

[OllieClarke]

Hi @Sebastian_R 

I found this blog https://woshub.com/how-to-run-file-explorer-elevated/ which talks about how to run windows explorer in elevated mode. 

Personally I prefer to use the task manager route, rather than powershell.

• So end the windows explorer App,
• Run a new task opening:
  • explorer.exe /nouaccheck 
  • with create this task with admin privileges ticked
• I then had to open windows explorer manually, but it had elevated privileges, so I could drag and drop into designer.

Alternatively, from task manager, run a new task to open:

C:\Program Files\Alteryx\bin\AlteryxGui.exe"

but don't tick create with admin priv and see if that will run Alteryx non-elevated (which it does for me)

Hope that helps,

Ollie

[Sebastian_R]

Hello Ollie,

Thank you for your answer, appreciate you taking the time.

This seems like a good solution but requires being on an administrator account.The "create this task with admin privileges" box does not appear for me, apparently because I have a non-admin account.

I won't be able to change my account to Admin as I am using a company laptop.

(Running Alteryx from the taswk manager also results in it being Elevated)

Would be great if the Alteryx team could add an option to forcing Alteryx to run as non-elevated.

Sebastian