Runtime Settings

[billygreenway]

Hi All,

My team and I are currently looking at editing some of the code in the Runtime settings for Alteryx Designer.

We have seen that there seem to be Runtime Settings in two different locations:

1. C:\ProgramData\Alteryx\RuntimeSettings.xml
2. C:\Program Files\Alteryx\RuntimeData\RuntimeSettings.xml

My understanding is that the Program Files xml is static and is set when Alteryx is installed, and that the Program Files xml writes to the ProgramData xml.

My question is, how does the ProgramData RuntimeSettings xml get written to? Is it over-written to every time Alteryx is launched?

What are the use cases for editing the ProgramData or Program Files xml?

Thanks for your help,

Billy

[joshuaburkhow]

Hey @billygreenway 

A couple thoughts for you. 

• Not trying to be your mother here 😉 but do be very careful if you are going to edit the settings file. You mess that up, you won't be able to run Alteryx and will need to reinstall
• If I were going to make any changes I would use the UI to ensure you don't make any mistakes. You can do that by going to Program Files > Alteryx > bin > AlteryxConfiguration.exe 

Curious to why you would want to edit the runtime settings? 

[billygreenway]

Hi @joshuaburkhow ,

Thanks for your reply!

We are looking to package Alteryx in order to perform an upgrade across our organisation and want to change some of the default runtimesettings code specifically in order to be able to roll this out to multiple users at once.

We also don't have system settings enabled for security reasons.

Best,

Billy

[somervill]

Hi Joshua, wondering if you;ve every bumped into the situation that when we try to edit the system setting and it turns out to be the following msg back：

[KulakValeriy]

I'm getting the same error. Did you ever get it resolved?