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Ability to Rename FileName Field from Input Tool

Being able to specify a name for the FileName field in the Input Tool configuration would be helpful for cases where a field named FileName is already present in the input data and has a different purpose than the newly added FileName field. Instead of having to use Field Info and other tools to rename the last field into something else (i.e. AYX_FileName), this would be an easier approach.

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NeoInfiniTech
11 - Bolide

I would like to add another recommendation to this idea to increase the FileName field length integrated in the Input Data tool from 254 to 32,767 to support long paths, as I recently came across a case where the file I wanted to use as an input had a full path length of 255, which was reported to be truncated by Alteryx Designer. I can imagine there being files with full paths much longer than 254 characters where the use of long paths is enabled.

 

The Directory tool already supports long paths, as can be seen by reading in any directory and checking the metadata or adding a Select tool to see the defined length of 32,767 for both FullPath and Directory columns.