Publishing Alteryx workflow to Alteryx UAT Gallery (company gallery)

[Sasthana25]

Hi, 

I want to publish a workflow in company's Alteryx UAT gallery. Few challenges: 

1. The workflow was designed by my colleague (on long leave) and the input file is sourced from his local drive. 

2. The report needs to be handled by a specific team and they have to run this on monthly basic (which means the input files will change)

So, I want to publish the workflow on server so that the team can run the reports as per their need. 

What would be the best solution to tackle above 1-2 challenge. Shall I convert the workflow to Analytical App if so is there an option to provide path etc. Basically how does this whole scenario works.

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks 

[messi007]

@Sasthana25,

Yup analytics app is the best solution in this case.

You can take a look on the example provided by Alteryx.

You can as well add details when you publish to the gallery in order to give the production team a guideline to update the inputs

Hope this helps,

Regards

[mceleavey]

Hi @Sasthana25 ,

as @messi007 points out, an analytic app is the best way forward here, but you have a few challenges. First, if you export, package the assets and publish you will be running a static version of the local files, and these will not be updated. If you want this to be dynamic, you will need to put all data files accessed by the workflow in a location accessible by the server.

This may mean moving them to a shared network drive, to a server folder or to a cloud based repository such as Amazon S3.

M.

[atcodedog05]

Hi @Sasthana25 

One of the best practices followed is mapping the input file & output file to a Network/Shared drive which is accessible  to multiple team members. Team members can upload the input file in the folder and get the output file from the folder. And if you are publishing it in UAT server/Alteryx Gallery you may need to provision shared drive access to Alteryx Gallery also.

If you do not have any shared drive then you might have to got with @messi007 solution. You can also use file browse tool to let users specify output file like below. Note : you need to check "save as dialog" for file browse which is connected to file browse.

Hope this helps 🙂