Is there a way to pass an argument to an Event that runs before the workflow runs

[earth2joy]

A user on our team wants to process some pdf documents to be saved as Excel documents that she can then run through a workflow. We've gotten as far as one of the team members writing the Python code to translate pdf to xlsx, and it works. Now, she wants to turn the workflow into an app to allow the user to revise the date of the documents to be input into the workflow.

Here's the problem: the python code is an EVENT that runs before the workflow runs. Is there a way to pass a date string to an event like that using a Date-Time Interface tool (from an app interface)? I would think it's not possible. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Yoshiro_Fujimori]

Hi @earth2joy ,

Have you considered to put your Python code in Python tool in Alteryx Workflow?

If you do so, everything is on Alteryx platform now and I guess it would become easier to pass data to the next wokflow.

[Prometheus]

Have you thought about building chained apps? The first app executes the python code, while the second processes the Excel files created by the first app.

[earth2joy]

Hi @Yoshiro_Fujimori and @Prometheus,

Both those sound like great ideas. I'll give them a try and let you know. Thanks so much!

Joy