Has drag & drop from File Explorer onto canvas been dropped from 2018.4?

[Balders]

On windows 10 with Alteryx 2018.4 I cant seem to drag and drop files or workflows  from file explorer onto the canvas. Has this feature been dropped with the latest release?

[cmcclellan]

It's working fine for me, what file type are you trying to drag in ?

[Balders]

Everything, YXDBs, CSVs, YXMDs etc

[Balders]

Update, I've attached a video of the problem

[cmcclellan]

I've tested everything and it's working fine - yxdb, yxmc, yxmd, xls, csv, json

No problems at all.

[patrick_digan · Accepted solution]

In alteryx, If you go to help and then about, does it show that you're running elevated by any chance? That would prevent you from drag and dropping

[Balders]

Arghh that seems to it, cheers Pat. No idea why it was running as elevated fresh off a new install.

[Garrett]

@patrick_digan - are you aware of a workaround that would let me run elevated and still drag 'n' drop directly to the canvas?

Running elevated seems to get me where I want to be regarding scheduling workflows on my local machine (as without running elevated I can't start the Alteryx Service).

However I never realized how much I used the drag 'n' drop directly to the canvas functionality until I lost it.

Thanks!

[patrick_digan]

@Garrett I do not know of any such workarounds. Let me know if you find one!

[sbahali]

 Dragging a .csv file from Windows Explorer directly onto the Alteryx Designer canvas result which outcome?

It will act as input data tool or text input?