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Expand Accepted File Types in Explorer Box

The Explorer Box is great for embedding help documentation into workflows. That being said, there are several text-based file types that cannot be accepted into the Explorer Box such as .sql or .log. Since these are essentially text files, I'm suggesting that the Explorer Box should be less strict regarding file extensions and allow all text-based file types to be viewable.

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jpoz
Alteryx
Alteryx
Status changed to: Implemented

You can do this. For example, if you have a local file at D:/Temp/file.sql, set the explorer box to 'file:///D:/Temp/file.sql' and it will display the file in the Explorer Box. It tired it with .log as well and it worked.

 

Drag your file into a web browser, and then copy the URL from the web browser into the Explorer Box in order to get the correct file: syntax.