Be sure to review our Idea Submission Guidelines for more information!
Submission GuidelinesHello,
After used the new "Image Recognition Tool" a few days, I think you could improve it :
> by adding the dimensional constraints in front of each of the pre-trained models,
> by adding a true tool to divide the training data correctly (in order to have an equivalent number of images for each of the labels)
> at least, allow the tool to use black & white images (I wanted to test it on the MNIST, but the tool tells me that it necessarily needs RGB images) ?
Question : do you in the future allow the user to choose between CPU or GPU usage ?
In any case, thank you again for this new tool, it is certainly perfectible, but very simple to use, and I sincerely think that it will allow a greater number of people to understand the many use cases made possible thanks to image recognition.
Thank you again
Kévin VANCAPPEL (France ;-))
Thank you again.
Kévin VANCAPPEL
Alteryx should seriously consider incorporating certain Excel features into its Brows tool, as they greatly enhance usability and functionality.
Currently, when selecting specific records in the Brows tool, users are unable to obtain important metrics such as sum, average, or count without resorting to additional steps, such as adding a summary tool or filters.
However, envisioning the integration of a concise bar below the message result window that provides these essential statistics, which are immensely beneficial to users, would undoubtedly elevate the Brows tool to the next level.
By implementing this enhancement, Alteryx would make a significant impact and establish the Brows tool as a must-have resource.
Currently, you have two choices for Auto Configure while working on workflows:
Pros and Cons of both:
I would love to have something in between all, kind of an intelligent Auto Configure with following features:
This idea will add quite some complexity into the logic of Auto Configure but should have quite some potential to speed up editing workflows because network access and number of re-evaluated tools in each editing step will be reduced.
Hi:
I believe the ability for Alteryx Designer to read from/write to parquet files will enhance its capability to serve the DSML community better. Potentially someone can design this connector as part of the App community but given the importance parquet file formats have gained as a columnar storage format (as opposed to something like Avro - which is a row storage format), Alteryx supplying native connectors to such files would be awesome.
Thank you,
Shiva Badruswamy
Principal Architect - DSML
Stratascale
Hello!
I like to annotate my workflows when finished, and it can be a bit of a pain to add more and more comment tools by searching for them, or going through the current right-click menu:
What would be nice is the option to right click anywhere on the canvas, and have the option of 'add comment', similar to how we have the option for 'add container' when selecting tools on the canvas.
Cheers!
I know that the container title/label should or can be short, and as much descriptive as possible. Also, adding extra comments inside the box helps to a more detailed explanation on regards what process is run inside the container. Visually, if I collapse the container, the "Short" title given can't be of much help.
Could it be possible to enhance the "caption" for the "Container" title? I mean to allow to type 2, 3 or more lines of text?. This will make the Container title more descriptive and visually will allow to have the containers collapsed but with a reasonable amount of text that describe (as much as possible) what happens inside the container.
At the moment, If I type certain amount of text, the container expands according to the length of the text
Below is the typical container Title
Below is the current situation if a person would like to give a bit of more description in the "Container" header (The container expands)
An dream would be to have the workflow with all containers collapsed and with titles that tell you what they do (see image below)
I think we can all agree that Workflow Summary Tool is immensely powerful in summarizing large and/or complicated workflows. However, some companies have begun to bar the use of certain GenAI applications, like ChatGPT. Unfortunately this makes the use of the Workflow Summary Tool impossible. At the same time those companies are allowing the use of other forms of GenAI, like AzureAI.
In the Workflow Summary tool, it would be nice to have the capability to select which GenAI engine you want to use (ChatGPT, AzureAI, etc) so that you don't break corporate policy by using barred applications. This could simply be a dropdown in the GUI configuration for the Workflow Summary Tool with a list of the most common engines. The user would then supply their API key for that engine, and you're off to the races.
@RithiS ,
I'm a fan of using DETOUR tools in Alteryx. I often place "test" code into a standard workflow and opt to use it or not based upon a detour. The challenge is that adding a detour and detour end invariably leads to having to re-route connectors (default of adding tools is to connect to the left). Here's a picture:
What I'd like to do is SELECT the tool or tools that I want to connect around (in this case, just the formula tool). I'd like to right-click and DETOUR. The detour and detour end would be added (putting the selected tools in the path of the RIGHT option. This would greatly speed up the tool configuration process.
If you want to go for extra credit, you could modify the GUI to express which direction a detour is travelling in a standard workflow (e.g. make connections wireless or dashed when not selected).
Cheers,
Mark
Hello!
Currently when you share a workflow that contains a Directory tool, it will instantly fail if you do not setup the directory tool to point at a similar folder structure. This is expected, but can make it painful to share workflows between multiple users, especially when a shared network drive and dynamic paths cannot be used.
What I propose as an addition to Alteryx Designer would be the option to 'convert to yxdb' / 'cache and replace' any tools that are at the start of a workflow, similar to the cache and run workflow option:
What i expect this to do is to containerise the tools previously used, and create a new file within a temporary location, and replace the containerised tool connection with a new data input to that file:
Why this would be fantastic, is that it would allow me to now export the workflow, including the file that has been created:
and I could then share that with a colleague.
Kind Regards,
Owen
If you cancel a workflow while its writing into a file, the file creation will not be rollbacked and hence a partial file would have been created.
This is problematic when working with incremental load relying on file from the past.
I would like to propose a more interactive results window. The reason is that if you click on any of the tool hyperlinks next to the messages while the output is compiling, you get trapped inside that tool's output for the entire time that the workflow runs. You do not get to see any additional workflow result/detail as it compiles until after the entire workflow is run. It would be great if a user could escape back to the main workflow's results.
For instance if I am running a fairly long or complex workflow that does not all fit on one screen...I may want to zoom in on a tool if it has a warning or error before the workflow finishes. By clicking on the hyperlink "Union(5)" the palette will zoom to Union (5) so I can see which tool is a problem.
I can see any messages attached to Union(5), however I am stuck with this view the rest of the time the workflow runs. Clicking on the canvas (or really any other action I try to take) does not take me back to the overall workflow result window.
Granted if I have an error I may want to stop the workflow altogether, but sometimes warnings may prompt further investigation once the workflow is run and I may want to get an immediate read on where in the workflow the problem is while it is still running...which inputs might I have to check etc.
Containers are a great feature. They allow us to create larger workflows in smaller canvases, and manage the flow and appearance of our work. However the design whether intentional or flawed that allows the container window to interact with the layers behind it is annoying. Connection wires should not redirect within a container because of things on the canvas behind the container. Likewise if I have a container open, I should not be able to grab a tool or container behind the open container through the container canvas. Please fix this flaw.
I find it annoying that the count records and heat map macros have file inputs which point to a W drive. This will show up in workflow dependencies and can cause false alarm warnings. Since these are packaged with Designer, simply change the macros to text inputs instead of file input.
Thanks!
When viewing results of a workflow that has Errors, could we add External error resolution data if the user clicks on the error message? Like browse everywhere it could lookup the error in help and in community posts.
cheers,
mark
It would be great to increase the size of the content displayed in the results window. I use it primarily to exlore data and with my insufficiently good eyesight this is a challenge. Some non-Alteryx solutions were proposed before but I feel they are not sustainable in the long run.
Best
Teba
One of the common issues when you build macros is the error "the schema of macro output XXX has changed between iterations"
So the next step that we commonly follow is to put a select tool into the flow just before the macro output - and convert all the fields to a specific type; untick the "unknown" field; and then sometimes have to go into the XML to add the "Forced = true" flag into the XML so that it doesn't change over time:
Please could you add an option under the "Options" tab to force / lock down the type of every field with one click? That would eliminate dozens of clicks on every creation of a macro.
Thank you
Sean
To embed the "Not ok" filter option in the browse tool
CI / CD is critical to any production level process, especially when multiple authors are contributing new features to the same workflow. Currently, multi-author editing of workflows is extremely difficult, and something that would be aided greatly by using git to control different branches of ongoing work. Luckily, that's something we can already do today! However, the ability to test before merging a pull request is critical to modern CI / CD pipelines. For this, it we need to be able to run a headless workflow from a CI / CD environment. Also, having the ability to pass in parameters to the workflow would allow for robust integration testing - something that isn't straightforward today without running on production environments.
When you enter a search term in the results window, it would be great if it highlighted that term in the data results window. Otherwise, it still takes work to find where your search term is located in each row.
Currently if I drag a tool onto the canvas and it has multiple input anchors, Alteryx will try to connect to the first input anchor from the output of the nearest tool I am hovering near.
However the improvement I would like to see is where there are specific tools which are required to go into each input that it 'intelligently' connects to the correct input, for example on the gif below I have a PDF input and PDF template tool (pre-computer vision), and when I bring the image to text tool in, it will try and connect the output of the template tool into the D input anchor, when the correct input is the T anchor. What this leads to is me having to delete a connection and then re-wiring which slows down the development time.
User | Likes Count |
---|---|
11 | |
9 | |
7 | |
7 | |
5 |