Alteryx Designer Desktop Knowledge Base

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

One of the greatest strengths of modern web APIs is their flexible, developer-friendly nature, which provides numerous options for both the provider and the user. However, this flexibility can make it more intimidating for business users to deal with the various data formats that these APIs provide. The purpose of this article is to familiarize you with the main data formats used by the vast majority of web APIs, and provide the basic knowledge that will allow you to confidently process the data they return into a typical tabular format.

This article is part of the CS Macro Development Series. The goal of this series is to communicate tips, tricks, and the thought process that goes into developing good, dynamic macros.

This article discussed about the Alteryx Connectors deprecation, for initial set of connectors, and clarifies the questions around the Connectors deprecation.

API connections give access to many web-based applications, database systems, or programs by exposing objects or actions to a developer in an abstracted format that can easily be integrated into another program.

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

Upgrading to numpy 1.24.0 onwards causes Alteryx.read() method to fail with "AttributeError: module 'numpy' has no attribute 'bool'"

All levels of logging (warning, error, debug, info, etc) is treated as an error and return as an error in Production mode of Python tool.

The custom tool or tool that uses Python SDK throws out an error is there is any error on the workflow canvas.

When your Python libraries don't work the way they should in Python tool, restoring the tool to it's original state could be the solution. This article walks through how to restore Python libraries and the virtual environment associated with the Python tool.

The article provides troubleshooting steps when "404 not found" error is encountered in Python tool.

Running a cell in Jupyter Notebook containing Alteryx.read() returns "Unable to connect to input data" error. This happens if the workflow is saved in a file path containing an ampersand (&).

Jupyter Notebook fails to load after Flask package is installed.

Running workflow containing Jupyter Flow tool in Gallery fails if the server machine is not in a domain.

Python tool will not load Jupyter Notebook if the Detour tool is used and the path is diverted to another path where the Python tool is not on by default.

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

When using a python tool with pandas package, xlrd is unable to read .xlsx files, only .xls.

The code changes made in the Python tool will be lost after running the workflow immediately.

This article describes how to locate the Workbook.ipynb file behind the Python Tool in order to check access rights and resolve certain errors (most commonly, 404 errors).

This article will review how to acquire a System Info file to provide Support with more details about your local environment.