Distribute Tools Horizontally/Vertically

[khaiwong]

It would be nice if we can arrange some tools on the canvas neatly by one click and having them distributed evenly (horizontally/vertically).

See this picture which worth thousand words.

[mcarrico]

Alignment options would be nice as well to clean things up.  

[khaiwong]

@mcarrico, there are keyboard shortcuts for alignment.

To align selected tools horizontally, press Ctrl+Shift+ -

To align selected tools veritcally, press Ctrl+Shift+ +

[mcarrico]

Oh wow, thanks for letting me know.  Never saw it in a ribbon or from the right click menu, but the keyboard shortcut is even better.  Thanks so much!

[stevenbarsalou]

As khaiwong pointed out, there are hot keys for doing this, but I only recently learned about them.  It would be nice to add this to the "right click" context menu.

[ephij]

Somewhat Tangentially how about an Alteryx Beautifier!  One click beautfication of either selected items or the whole workflow.

* Avoids spaghetti beziers

* aligns to grid other tools along the path

* distributes evenly

* might scales the workflow with all inputs at the top (vertically) or left (horizontally) and cascade through the workflow

[jamielaird]

This is a great idea; a distribute horizontal tool would save me a lot of time. 

[jltomlinson]

Agreed with the distribute and context menu. 

We like to neaten workflows up to be able to print for documentation creation (along with lots of comments and annotations!)

[SeanAdams]

this would be a good complement to the align horizontally / vertically that was shipped in 11!

[Bobe]

SAS EG and Visio both have auto-arrange features that resemble the functionality described, namely not only aligning tools on the canvas, but distributing them, as well as pin/snap-in options.

Would be interested in hearing whether Alteryx has any plans to build this out.