Order of Completion of Tools

[jsh562]

Why do tools complete before their previous tools are complete?
Is this working as intended?

[afv2688]

If you are having some issues with your workflow stream I suggest you to try the block until done tool.

It is desing to prevent those kind of problems.

If your results are good you shouldn't worry about it then.

Regards

[jamielaird · Accepted solution]

Hi @jsh562 ,

Interesting question!

Most tools in a typical Alteryx workflow process one record at a time and will pass processed records downstream to other tools which can in turn start processing them.

There are some tools, such as Sort, that act on the whole set of records so you will typically notice 'bottlenecks' at these points, as the tool needs to first receive all processed records from upstream tools before it can pass records on to the next tool.

You can read more on this in the How Alteryx Processes Data whitepaper.