Parameterizing Chained Analytic Applications

[bwall]

I recently began working with chained analytic applications.  One of the things that I wanted to do was to take the values selected by the end user at each stage of the app and pass them further down in the application.  I was able to do this by dumping the selected values to Alteryx databases and then using drop downs to pull the data into subsequent apps.  However, I was wondering if there would be a better way of accomplishing this.  One reason is that, with my approach, I wind up with several additional drop downs in my interface--which I really don't want.  If there's a way around this, I'd love to hear it.  Alternately, if Alteryx could potentially support doing something like this in the future, I think it would be really helpful.

[dataMack]

You might consider writing the values to an actual database (if you have access to one). This would also give you the benefit of trace-ability- ex. you could see a record for what users were running it and what values you received.

[daniel_mmi]

Is there any protocol for programatically creating/updating constants within a workflow? If there were, that might make a useful storehouse for that kind of running information.

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