Alteryx Designer Desktop Knowledge Base

When connecting to a specific MS Access file (accdb format) that contains a linked table with a big int datatype, the following error ocurrs 'The database you are trying to open requires a newer version of MS Access'.

There may be a time when there is a need to gather more information on why the Alteryx installation/uninstallation fails. This article will show you how you can enable the installer log.

This document explains the steps to export HAR files by using Chrome Developer Tools built into Designer to investigate the interface of HTML GUI SDK tools.

ERROR: "General error; 1033 error while parsing protocol" while connecting to SAP HANA DB using the Input Data Tool in Designer

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.

How to Edit Environment Variables for Oracle Data Connection

Runner tool is not able to run workflow which is stored in a path containing double-byte characters.

SMTP settings of the most common email providers for configuration in the Email Tool and Email Events.

With the release of 2018.3 comes a very exciting new functionality – workflow caching! Caching can save a lot of time during workflow development by saving data at “checkpoints” in the workflow, so that each time you add a new step to your workflow, it does not need to rerun the workflow in its entirety, rather it can pick up from your last Cache point. There are a couple conditions where tools cannot be selected as cache points, including tools with multiple output anchors, and tools in "circles".

Text Pre-processing tool fails when no row of data is passed in.

AlteryxSpatialPluginsEngine.dll could not be loaded: The specified module could not be found

A basic troubleshooting for authentication errors for AWS S3 Upload/Download tools

Where do you start when you see "An Unhandled Exception occurred"?

How to check which version of a Connector tool is used in a workflow

Image Template tool will fail if loading a PDF using UNC path.

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

When a workflow writes a large data set to Tableau Server, it may throw an error halfway through because the Tableau Server credentials token expired.

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.

This article provides answers the most frequently asked questions related to In-Database Tools.

After upgrading Designer, clicking on the ellipsis(...) to launch the Query Builder window, results in error "Could not load type 'ActiveDatabaseSoftware.ActiveQueryBuilder.SnowflakeMetadataProvider' from assembly 'ActiveDatabaseSoftware.ODBCMetadataProvider2"