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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
It would be ever so helpful and save a couple extra steps if a count distinct option could be added to the crosstab tool. Seems like a slam dunk since plain ole 'count' is already a choice.
Hi UX interested parties,
Here are some ideas for you to consider:
1. These lines are BORING and UNINFORMATIVE. I'd like to understand (pic = 1,000 words) more when looking at a workflow.
If you look at lines A, B, C in the picture above. Nothing is communicated. Weight of line, color of line, type of line, beginning line marker/ending line marker, these are all potential ways that we could see a picture of the data without having to get into browse everywhere to see the information. If we hover over the data connection, even more information could appear (e.g. # of records, size of file) without having to toggle the configuration parameters.
2. Wouldn't it be nice to not have to RUN a workflow to know last SAVED metadata (run) of a workflow? I'd like to open a "saved" workflow and know what to expect when I run the workflow. Heck, how long does it take the beast to run is something that we've never seen unless we run it.
3. I'd like to set the metadata to display SORT keys, order. Sort1 Asc, Sort 2 Desc .... This sort information is very helpful for the engine and I'll likely post about that thought. As a preview, when a JOIN tool has sorted data and one of the anchors is at EOF, then why do we need to keep reading from the other anchor? There won't be another matched record (J) anchor. In my example above, we don't ask for the L/R outputs, so why worry about the rest of the join?
4. Have you ever seen a map (online) that didn't display watermark information? I think that the canvas experience should allow for a default logo (like mine above, but transparent) in the lower right corner of the canvas that is visible at all times. Having the workflow name at the top in a tab is nice, but having it display as a watermark is handy.
5. Once the workflow has RUN, all anchors are the same color. How about providing GREY/White or something else on EMPTY anchors instead of the same color? This might help newbies find issues in JOIN configuration too.
6. If the tool has ERRORs you put a RED exclamation mark. I despise warnings, but how about a puke colored question mark? With conversion errors, the lines could be marked to let you know the relative quantity of conversion errors (system messages have a limit)
Just a few top of mind things to consider ....
Cheers,
Mark
Ever tried to copy a field rename from one select tool to another, or from one summarize tool from another.
Have you noticed that it doesn't work?
I think it should. 🙂
i.e., if you click on the rename box ("Total") and enter ctrl-c, when you enter ctrl-v in the other tool, it pastes this:
Field2 Sum Total
not just the name "Total"
Instead of just the renamed field "Category", the select tool pastes this:
True Field1 String 1 Category
We need color coding in the SQL Editor Window for input tools. We are always having to pull our code out of there and copy it into a Teradata window so it is easier to ready/trouble shoot. This would save us some time and some hassle and would improve the Alteryx user experience. ( I think you've used a couple of my ideas already. This one is a good one too. )
Currently the install of AIS is tied to a specific version of Designer. However due to the feature changes being brought to AIS it would be great to be able to upgrade the AIS install separate to the version of Designer.
It might be that this is only possible for a certain number releases, due to underlying dependencies such as python version, but it would be great for example that I could get the newer AIS features without needing to upgrade Designer (which is set by IT policy).
It would be absolutely marvellous if the ability to use a field as the replace value could be incorporated into the Regex tool. Currently the "Replacement Text" field is a hardcoded text value, and so to make that dynamic you have to wrap the tool in a batch and feed in the value as a Control Parameter. If we could just select a field to use as the replacement value, that would be spiffy.
M.
Tools should not error with Zero rows, often when working with macros it is possible to have a scenario where zero rows or columns is legitimate. Some tools are fine with this and some are not. In my case the Select Tool does not allow it so I have to create a Work around with a Text Input tool.
When writing a good amount of code, it is easy to get lost in a sea of parentheses. Just when you think you're all done, you get an error that can force you to scour through your code to find the missing, extra, or misplaced parenthesis.
A common feature today is to highlight a parenthesis when its partner is clicked on. This instantly lets you know if you have the wrong number of them and where.
I didn't think this was that important early on in Alteryx, at least for me. Formulas were meant to be short and easily readable at a glance. Now as I dig deeper, there's R, Python, SQL and other text-heavy inputs.
I don't need a full-fledged text editor in Alteryx, but I would love some quality of life features like parentheses matching.
Hey all,
The join tool currently does not allow case-insensitive joins, but the find/replace tool does. Additionally- even if both sides are identical, the join tool will not join "Sean's house" to "Sean's house" because of the non-letter character in the middle. Finally - if one side is a string(2), and the other is a vString(200) - even if you have a single identical character on both sides you get uncertain outcomes unless you force the type
Please could you consider amending the join tool to include 3 new options or capabilities:
- Case insensitive join
- Allow full Unicode character set in join
- Full match across text types (irrespective of string size) - this would allow a string(2) value to match to a string(100) value as long as the string(100) value only has the same 2 characters in it as the string(2) value
That would remove a load of work from every text-join that's being done on every canvas we do.
Thank you
Sean
Hi currently if you use the cross tab tool and the names of the new fields should have special characters they end up being replaced in the new headers with underscores "_", and then need to be updated in someway. It would be great if this was all done in the tool. In other words the new headers have the special characters as desired
Hello all,
DuckDB is a new project of embeddable database by the team behind MonetDB. From what I understand, it's like a SQLite database but for analytics (columnar-vectorized query execution engine on a single file). And of course it's open-source and free.
More info on their website : https://duckdb.org/
Best regards,
Simon
Alteryx Server is great, but very costly. Having the ability to install the Alteryx engine without the Designer, thus allowing you to share Workflows/Apps with users directly. This could be licensed on a per user basis as well, but a reduced cost.
This also allows for some more advanced workflows that do not work in the Gallery.
When using the unknown field in a select, you can either select or deselect the fields which will appear afterwards.
I would love to have an option or different to specify elements for fields to appear for instance having :
and for dates too
it would set a default behaviour for incoming text fields or numeric fields allowing for more precise deselction too.
When email body gets imported using latest version of the Outlook 365 tool, this tool removes the new line separators from the message body, which makes it difficult to parse relevant information out of the message body. New line separators are there prior to message being imported into Alteryx as can be verified when importing same message using different tools (for example, Python or Power Automate). Without new line separators it is not possible to accurately parse message body using Alteryx. Please add the enhancement to the Outlook 365 tool so that it doesn't remove new line separators from the message body.
This limitation of the Outlook 365 tool has been discussed in the community
...and now for probably the most trivial request in a long time, but also one of the most annoying things (for me anyway)..........
When viewing a browse window, it's so darn awesome to be able to sort and search. However, it would be even awesomeer (yes, I just made up a word) if when you actually conducted a sort or search, you could make your selection (for sorts) or type in your criteria (for searches) and simply press the "Enter" button on the keyboard and have it do the same thing that selecting "Apply" with the mouse does. This is common Windows functionality and I think should be easy to implement.
I would love to be able to see the actual curl statement that is executed as part of the download tool. Maybe something like a debug switch can be added which would produce 1 extra output field which is the curl statement itself? This would greatly enhance the ability to debug when things aren't working as expected from the download tool.
Hello,
A few years ago, Alteryx was 4 released per year and now it's only 2 per year (in 2023, as of today, only one !!)
The reasons why I would the cadence to be back to quarter release :
-a quarter cadence means waiting less time to profit of the Alteryx new features so more value
-quarter cadence is now an industry standard on data software.
-for partners, the new situation means less customer upgrade opportunities, so less cash but also less contacts with customers.
Best regards,
Simon
I am having to render my Alteryx formatted reports to Excel and then upload the report to Google Sheets
It would be very useful (and improve the less well known Alteryx Reporting capabilities) to be able to render straight to a Google Sheet and preserve the formatting.
Thanks
Hi
The wording of the tool tip displayed in results window cells with long strings is misleading. The current wording is "This cell has truncated characters".
New users tend to infer that this means that the data value has been truncated somewhere upstream. See here, here and here. Changing this message to something like "Only a portion of long strings is displayed" will help reduce the confusion immensely.
Dan
Two very useful functions
According to https://www.w3schools.com/sql/func_mysql_least.asp
The LEAST() function returns the smallest value of the list of arguments.
example : SELECT LEAST("w3Schools.com", "microsoft.com", "apple.com");
returns "apple.com"
GREATEST works exactly the same but returns the greatest value of the list of argument
As of today, Alteryx proposes max and min to deal with that, but it only works with number and , I think, it's an ambiguous syntax : Max and Min works both as an aggregation function and as a row function. I love to separate these two notions.
Having a more standard means also more interoperability.
On a related topic, the coalesce function is proposed here : https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Ideas/Coalesce-function/idi-p/841014
Best regards,
Simon
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