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anupgupta12
8 - Asteroid

Can someone share a workflow with the use of constant and workflow dependencies? I just want learn its practical use.

 

Also, please share the link of Use cases or weekly challenges.

 

Thank you in advance.

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mbarone
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Say you have 2 inputs (or 200 for that matter), all linked to your desktop:
2021-06-02 07_34_49-Alteryx Designer x64 - New Workflow6_.png

 

And then say all the data moves to another location (like "N:\TeamData\").  You can just update that Directory above and bam - all 200 inputs will be updated at once.

anupgupta12
8 - Asteroid

Thank you, can you also share an example of Constants?

 

atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Hi @anupgupta12 

 

Constants are basically external values and is fixed for a workflow. It can be used in formula tool to get more info and use it in workflow like workflow name, path etc. Here i am using workflow filename to get workflow name.

 

atcodedog05_0-1622709364019.png

 

Hope this helps 🙂

mbarone
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Opps, forgot to address the constants part.  Looks like @atcodedog05 covered that for you; cheers!

anupgupta12
8 - Asteroid

One Quick question on WD - If a workflow has  10 inputs and they are coming from subfolder with a folder, let's say from 4 subfolder, so in this case I need to update links 4 times..ryt?

atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Hi @anupgupta12 

 

Can you provide more info on the scenario. We will be happy to help 🙂

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