Alteryx Designer Desktop Knowledge Base

When using Auto Insights uploader v1.4 for Designer 2021.4, DCM needs to be enabled. And SDK Access Mode must be Allow instead of AllowAll

This article explains the steps in configuring the Personal Access Token in Tableau Online server, in order to use this in Alteryx Designer for a successful PAT(Personal Access Token) based connection

The external Python environment must use Python version 3.8.5. Using another version will not work in the Jupyter Flow tool.

The PCXML file created by the Allocate Report tool returns "ComposerDoc::GetCSSProperty: Unknown error" when opening it.

Alteryx.write() returns "XmlParse Error: the attribute "type" is missing“ if there is a double-quote in the column name and the double quote is followed by a space and more characters.

When upgrading Designer from 2021.3 to 2021.4 or 2022.1, you may encounter an error about SRCComposer_x64.dll module not found

Opening an Excel binary file (.XLSB) in an Input Data Tool crashes Designer if Windows patches are not installed.

When running a workflow that outputs to a file, the following is added to the filename. Note that this doesn't affect the actual filename: 'AlteryxBasePluginsGui.DbFileOutput.DbFileOutput'

Image Input tool fails with the "unable to open " error if the length of the path (including filename) exceeds 260 characters in Windows 10 and Server 2019. However, there is no issue in Server 2016. All have long path enabled.

Designer installed in double-byte characters (Japanese) named folder fails to load the tool palette when the Japanese language is used in Designer. Tools palette loads fine in other languages though.

Exporting data from the Browse tool to a CSV file cannot display/convert the double-byte characters correctly.

Installing a package from the Python tool is an important task. In this article, we will review all the possible functionality included with the Python method Alteryx.installPackages().

When trying to license Alteryx Server on a Windows 8 based computer , the user receives the error "An internet connection is required for activation. Please connect to the internet and try again, or contact customer support. Contact your license administrator for help with licensing. Defect TCPE-196

Alteryx.read() returns "attempt to seek past the end of the file" on an empty incoming data source