Temp Output Window / Comment / Message

[cbridges]

It would be great to just have a little tool like a comment box that could be based on whatever you want... like if you always want to see the max date at a certain point, or the grand total. It would be similar to how you can put formulas in the titles in Tableau like "Current as of <MAX(Date)>" or something like that. The best way (I think) would be to have it like the Annotations, but make it so you can turn it on or off at any stage in the workflow (right now annotations are only show or hide all) and make it dynamic based on results from the workflow up to that point. Right now I'm accomplishing this just by using a summary and browse tool, and then I put the result in the title of the toolbox manually.

[BenG]

Hi Cathy,

 This is a good suggestion and I imagine there are lots of ways this could be used to help document parts of the process.  We will discuss the options for this kind of feature and consider it for a future release.

Thanks,
Ben

[cbridges]

Some folks on the support team gave me a temporary workaround that suits my needs (although I do think it could be a lot better and simpler). They suggested I output the information I need as an html file and then adding an explorer window mapped to that file.

[RPM]

Upvoting this idea. It would be awesome to have custom msgboxes for validation purposes without clicking all over the place.

[KylieF]

Thank you for posting to the Alteryx Community! Your idea is interesting to us, but we have determined that we are unable to place this idea on our road map for the product due to several factors. However, should we be able to return to your idea in the future we will update the status back to Under Review.