As we do more work analyzng the canvasses that our folk are producing - it's becoming more and more necessary to have a well documented definition and schema for the XML that is used for Alteryx Canvasses.
Please could you publish the full XML definition and schema for Alteryx canvasses - this will allow groups to perform deeper analytics on how people are using Alteryx, automate quality checks; look for learning gaps; scan for dependencies etc?
Note: this relates to an idea from @dataprep here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Ideas/Documentation-tool-list-fileformat/idi-p/184457
cc: @revathi @LizaNemchynova @ydmuley
I try to parse the Alteryx yxmd, yxwz, yxmc... etc files.
It happens the tools and the fileformats are not written in clear :
We should have a list stored somewhere (API, file?) where we can find the information.
Best regards
@BARTONCONNIE I only filled the one we use.
Hello @SeanAdams
I began a macro (well, it's even an alpha) to parse some code. My main difficulty is the container notion. Maybe it should be a community project?
Hey @saubert
@LordNeilLord found a clever way around the containers by treating the data as flat text and just reading nodes.
Take a look here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Weekly-Challenge/Challenge-99-SANTALYTICS-2017-Part-3/m-p/104120#M2994
But agree on the community project concept -I'm sure a few people have built pieces of this puzzle - perhaps worth setting up a GIT project, and a Slack discussion room, and bringing a few folk together to build this?
I tried also the flat text approach to geat easily the tools but then the tool configuration is quite harder to retrieve. As of today, I have both the text and the xml approach but it's not very clean. My goal was to get the list of tools used, the formula, the in/out (especially : use of alias? in db/standard?/hdfs/file?).
This is important (+ many other forum requests) to improve user tracking and all the associated benefits that come with it.
Is there an update about the XSD for the current yxmd files of Alteryx?
While we're accepting votes, here's some data I found lying around y'all might find useful. I'm pasting it in csv format for easy copying.
@dataprep File Format for .zip is 57
I also need the same
is there an updated list?
