How to run a python script before rest of alteryx workflow

[user_7346]

Hello,

The file types I am using are not supported by Alteryx so I have a python script that converts them to file types supported by alteryx. I have the python tool in my workflow, but I am not sure how to make sure that is the first thing run. If the python script is not run first then the input tools will not be able to find the files as they will not yet exist. I don't want the script to output anything, but that seems to be required so I just added a browse tool after the python tool. Is there a way to have this python tool run then continue with the rest of the alteryx workflow?

[mindact]

I do have a similar issue. I'm connecting to a redshift DB, with nested tables. Alteryx input tool does not support or handle nested data. Seems like Trifecta might be a solve for it, but it's not one of the options we have at my company. I'm leaning towards using a python script to import the data. Has anyone had a need to imported data from a DB with nested tables?