Hello all,
I'm preparing a walkthrough for auditors. It's best practice for us to annotate within each tool, what the tool is doing to the data. What I'd like to do is export a list of each tool ID and the Annotation text with that tool ID. When I save the .yxmd as a .txt file, I can see each tool ID, and the Annotation. E.g.:
So two questions:
1) Is the "Tool ID" unique for each tool? Or is there a way to also link this with a tool type or to build some sort of hierarchy/flow of the workflow?
2) What's the best way to delimit the .txt file to isolate these two data points into a table?
related post: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/Parse-yxmd-as-xml-to-see-which-tools-a...
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Hi @Alt_eryx22
There is a sample workflow in Alteryx which you can leverage. Maybe you can tweak it to get annotation.
Oops its the same post 😅
Hope this helps : )
Hi @Alt_eryx22
Answer for the first question Tool ID is independent of tools. Tool ID is generated on incremental fashion on the order they are dragged to Canvas.
Hi @Alt_eryx22
And here is the new and improved version of macro for your requirement 🙂
Workflow:
Hope this helps : )
It took me a while 😅 but was definitely fun to build 🙂
Well done, thank you.
Happy to help : ) @Alt_eryx22
Cheers and have a nice day!