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Alteryx Designer Desktop Knowledge Base

Definitive answers from Designer Desktop experts.
Guide on configuring and capturing a Fiddler trace for Troubleshooting issues.
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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
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This article discussed about the Alteryx Connectors deprecation, for initial set of connectors, and clarifies the questions around the Connectors deprecation.
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Engine logs are captures of your Results Window and so much more. They can be profoundly useful for troubleshooting, but you have to know how to enable them and how to use them.
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Where do you start when you see "An Unhandled Exception occurred"?
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How to Connect to Databases Outside of Alteryx.
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Error: "Failed to connect to okta. Error code=401" when connecting to Snowflake using Okta SSO and MFA.
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When opening a workflow, the following error is received: "The Tool ID [id] Is not in the document".
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This article is written to provide an idea to output an excel sheet per data stream within one workflow using a batch macro.
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Instructions on how to disable the AMP Engine feature.
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This article describes the process for changing your email in Designer, also known as the serial number in Designer. This will change your licensed email.
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How to collect Wireshark traces to troubleshoot network-related issues.
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Some of the tools Alteryx Designer uses require proxy to be enabled and setup. This document will advise how to check if a proxy exists on a system.
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How to change the versioning of your workflow to be compatible with your current version. Caution, this procedure will not always yield a workflow that runs the same way the original one did in a more recent version of Alteryx. You may need to tweak things if any of the tools had changed.
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Nothing happens when clicking on the Save button when manually creating a connection string.
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Platform Product: Designer Issues – Working with Alteryx Customer Support Engineers (CSEs)
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This article details on the steps to read/extract password protected excel file in Alteryx Designer using the R code.
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Error "Timestamp is not close enough to the current server time" when running a workflow that contains an Oauth Macro in Alteryx Designer.
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This KB is extracted from the Inspire 2019 Tips + Tricks and outlines how to connect to a document library (Sharepoint) via Alteryx.
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This article addresses the replacement of PDF Input tool with the Image Input tool starting from 21.2 version of Alteryx Designer
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