Is there a way for multiple users to edit the same work flow simultaneously?

Question

We have Alteryx Server 2022.1. I have users who want to edit the same workflow at the same time. Is it possible to do this? If so, how? The reason for this is that the workflow needs to bring in multiple inputs, and each user is an expert on a different one of the inputs. So each user would work on different parts of the workflow.

bkaehny · Answer

Thanks for all the ideas everyone! I will follow up with my users to see if any of these will solve their use case.

danilang · Answer

Hi @bkaehny

One way to accomplish this is to have the Input experts create separate workflows that just extract and clean the data from each of their respective systems.  Once these are properly configured, convert them to standard macros by adding a Macro output tool plus any interface tools(if required).  In the main workflow, you can then just drop the Input macros and proceed with joining and processing the combined data.

This way you can have a team of people working on the process simultaneously.  Any changes that are required to the Input macros can be done to the specific macro while the development of the main workflow is proceeding.

Dan

Yoshiro_Fujimori · Answer

@bkaehny ,

It is possible to "check-out" a workflow from Gallery Collection by multiple users simultaneously,

but I suppose it is difficult to "merge" the updates from multiple users back to one workflow.

If a workflow has multiple inputs and each one requires a unique domain knowledge,

I would recommend decomposing it to several modules by each domain and develop another workflow to put them together.

In this way, each experts can develop independently (and the maintenance will be easier).