ACT NOW: The Alteryx team will be retiring support for Community account recovery and Community email-change requests Early 2026. Make sure to check your account preferences in my.alteryx.com to make sure you have filled out your security questions. Learn more here
Start Free Trial

Alteryx Designer Desktop Ideas

Share your Designer Desktop product ideas - we're listening!
Submitting an Idea?

Be sure to review our Idea Submission Guidelines for more information!

Submission Guidelines

Alteryx - Tableau hyper file lock

When scheduled or manual Alteryx workflows try to overwrite or append the Tableau hyper extract file, it fails(File is locked by another process). This is because a Tableau workbook is using the hyper extract file. We know the behavior is expected as the file is opened by another user/process so Alteryx won't be able to modify it until the file is closed. Alteryx product team should consider this and implement it in the future to solve many problems. 

2 Comments
patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Yes! I have switched to outputting to csv's to avoid this issue. 

AlteryxCommunityTeam
Alteryx Community Team
Alteryx Community Team
Status changed to: Accepting Votes