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Deleting gallery canvas be should mark associated schedules as deleted

Problem:

Currently, the scheduling via designer controller is independent of the gallery. So, even after a canvas is deleted, the scheduler still continues to execute the cached version of the canvas, as long as the scheduler exists.

Note, this issue does not occur when the canvas is directly scheduled in the gallery, and only occurs when you schedule via the Designer on the controller directly.

 

Steps to replicate issue:

1) Publish a canvas into gallery

2)Schedule the canvas to run daily via the Designer --> Options --> View Schedules --> Select Controller --> Create new workflow and schedule

3) Delete the canvas from gallery

4) You will notice that the canvas is still getting run on the defined schedule, even though you have deleted the canvas

 

Observed in Alteryx 11.5.1

 

Idea Recommendation:

Golden copy of a canvas should be the version existing in the gallery. Once the gallery instance of the canvas is deleted/replaced with a new version,

  • All related artifacts to the old version should be marked as "Deleted"
  • All existing schedules should be stopped from being executed
  • We should continue to retain all meta data attributes and execution history related to the old version (should not be wiped out) but clearly marked as archived/deleted

 

@SeanAdams @LizaNemchynova

 

4 Comments
SeanAdams
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Absolutely @AshwiniChezhiyan - and keeping all the old data (while being marked as "deleted") is incredibly important for audit & regulatory reasons.

 

Good shout!

JulieM
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)
Hi all, thanks for the post and detailed feedback. We'll take a look at this behavior for the Designer based scheduling experience to consider making these improvements (as I believe schedules in the Gallery do remain if the workflow is deleted from there but they are disabled and will not continue to try to run). Thanks again!
Community_Admin
Alteryx
Alteryx
Status changed to: Inactive
 
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Alteryx
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The status of this idea has been changed to 'Inactive'. This status indicates that:

 

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2. The idea has not reached ten likes.

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