Gold / Amber Boxes Around Workflow Icons

Hi,

Have searched on the following but not found an explanation. Can anyone please tell me more about what the gold/amber boxes in the below screenshot are meant to indicate? Can they be suppressed or resolved? They are driving me nuts. My workflow runs without errors or warnings and I have ensured that missing fields have been purged from the tools.

Thanks,

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pk403

Embarrassing but I just realized what it is -- I was searching for terms in the workflow and it was highlighting the tools containing the target strings. Boxes go away when Find and Replace is set to hidden 🙄

Thanks for your help nonetheless!

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mbarone

I have never seen that before but now I'm very curious. I can see how it would be very annoying. Does it happen as you build a workflow and are dropping tools onto the canvas? Is it just this workflow?

pk403

No, it's odd, it happens after running a workflow not as I'm building. Happens on multiple workflows. Have been iterating over a few dependent workflows and thought it might have something to do with changing table schemas, but reviewing each tool have not found any missing/expected fields.

mbarone

That's so odd. Is it possible to change inputs and make it a very generic workflow where it still happens, and if so, can you post it here? I could see if it does the same on my machine.

pk403

Hi thanks for the offer but I can't. It's not preventing me getting anything done, just hurts my tidy-workspace OCD. Would be great to hear from a dev or someone what this is meant to denote (not sure if they read these forums though).

mbarone

Understandable!

pk403

Thanks for your help nonetheless!

mbarone

Ah!!! That makes sense! I rarely use search so that's why I've never noticed it. Glad you figured it out though. Cheers!

atcodedog05

Hi @pk403

I had the same hunch that it was caused by Ctrl+F find window was not sure.😅

Thanks for confirming it's the same issue 🙂.

JohnZ_2022

Thanks for putting this message out there. I just had the same issue.

akadwa

thank you for figuring this out. I had this issue as well. Now i know 😀

brian_sanders

Me too! Even for seemingly inane things, I appreciate when people work through it so those of us that have the same question can get an answer. Thank you!

clarks2

Thanks for asking about it though, because when I did a search to find out what it meant, this is what I found. Sure enough, when I erased the Find criteria, the boxes went away. LOL

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