Find Nearest Tool range restriction

[leozhang2work]

A bit surprised to find the tool has a dropdown with limited range, I thought I remembered it as text box I can add in much bigger values. Was that a new update?

I can use Distance tool to build the flow, though it is rather annoying to complicate it.

Find Nearest tool UI improvement for over 100 Mile... - Alteryx Community

 

[gawa]

I voted to the above Idea.

Fortunately "Max Distance" and its unit(km/miles) is editable by Interface tool, so creating macro would be a kind of workaround, though we have to compromise about  having to fix input data schema...

[leozhang2work]

I did append reference points, doing distance calculation and filter, ideally I'd like to do it one tool 😅

Macro to update one value here is bit overkill for me.

[gawa]

Agreed. Append+Distance is not as fast as done in Find Nearest tool. Hope UI improvement will come soon.

[alexnajm]

I thought you could just type a different value in that box, right? So, instead of 100 it becomes 500 or even greater?

[Qiu]

@leozhang2work 
Good catch.
It appears to be "new update".
I checked my old version of alteryx and we could type in some bigger value. But we are now allowed to do in the newer version.
Lets raise it up.

[alexnajm]

This is now considered a defect and will be fixed in later versions!

[xavierriotte]

I recently updated to the latest version of designer and the limitation still exists.

The way I found to get around this problem was to copy paste a Find Nearest Tool I used in a different workflow with a higher customized value.

[alexnajm]

@xavierriotte you can also change the value directly in the XML!