Set defaults for comment boxes and tool containers to your preferred settings

[Rob48]

when you bring in a comment box or tool container to your canvas it should come in with your preferred defaults for  fill colors, font color & size, etc.  I have specific color schemes to identify what my comments are for and one scheme that I use most often has font size, position & color, and background color that I have to set every time i bring in a new comment box.

 I LOVE working in Alteryx it because unlike excel you set a "macro" to perform repeating operations once and then ignore them to do your real work.  This concept should extend to the little things within Alteryx, i.e. settings for preferred defaults for comment boxes & tool containers. 

[gsumner]

I would love this feature as well! At my company we use a ton of comments, and having them already set up to a specific font size, orientation, and color by default would be extremely helpful and save a lot of time.

[patrick_digan]

@Rob48 @gsumner Great idea! I think custom tool defaults in 2024.2 (yet to be released) will solve this. I didn't attend the webinar yesterday, but I see it was one of the features they were supposed to discuss.

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/General-Events/Join-Us-for-the-Alteryx-2024-Q3-Product-Update-Webin... 

[NicoleJ]

Keep an eye out for some very exciting updates around setting custom tool defaults, coming soon! 

[NicoleJ]

We are SO excited about all the possibilities with our new Custom Tool Defaults setting, available with 24.2 release - you can now set your own custom tool defaults for ANY tool!! 

This means you can set your own default format for Containers and Comments, as well as set custom options for virtually any other tool too!

[gsumner]

This is awesome!! Can't wait for my company to update, so we can use those features!