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I personally think it would work better to tab from 'Select Column' to 'Enter Expression Here' and not the 'Functions' List as probably people who are tabbing would immediately like to start typing the formula rather than going through functions, fields, etc.
The desginer autosave feature is fantastic when you need it. However, it's pretty annoying when you don't need it as it seems like it:
- Autosaves blank workflows
- Autosaves workflows that are saved and haven't had any changes made to them
Hopefully all of the above can be filtered out from Autosave:
The only workflow from the screenshot above that I'd want Autosaved would be the Parse Directory workflow as this is the only one which I made changes to:
- New Workflow1 - Completely blank
- PureGym Log In - Saved and no changes made
- New Workflow2 - Completely blank (however, I had dragged a tool onto canvas and deleted it, so something had changed)
However, Alteryx brings up all of the workflows:
Currently when you add an event to notify you of workflow failure / success - you have to enter the SMTP settings every time. It would be more efficient to set this up as a user setting which can be used for the default across all canvasses that this user creates.
Hi Dev team,
As well as this much needed UI feature to scroll through workflows https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Ideas/Scrolling-functionality-added-to-Workflow-sh...
Could you please change the order of workflow names in the 'Active Documents' button to be ordered in the same order as the workflow tabs and not alphabetically as it currently is?
When you have more than 5 workflows open (or less if they have long names) it's so tricky to quickly and easily cycle through them to find the ones you need. This is especially important when demoing, training and presenting to others!
Thanks,
Joe
I think I'm liking the new UI, but I think it's necessary to bring back save, undo and re-do buttons....
1. Frequent saving of workflows is crucial and not everyone uses keyboard shortcuts
2. The ability to undo (lots) of changes is a key part of iterating and rapidly building workflows in Alteryx and again not everyone uses keyboard shortcuts to do this.
Looks like there's potentially space to add this to the right of 'help' (I suspect this might be technically quiet difficult) or to the left of 'run', 'schedule' and 'active documents' as seen in the image below.
Out of interest, where has the 'documents' terminology come from?
The "Manage Data Connections" tool is fantastic to save credentials alongside the connection without having to worry when you save the workflow that you've embedded a password.
Imagine if - there were a similar utility to handle credentials/environment variables.
- I could create an entry, give it a description, a username, and an encrypted password stored in my options, then refer to that for configurations/values throughout my workflows.
- Tableau credentials in the publish to tableau macro
- Sharepoint Credentials in the sharepoint list connector
- When my password changes I only have to change it in one place
- If I handoff the workflow to another user I don't have to worry about scanning the xml to make sure I'm not passing them my password
- When a user opens my workflow that doesn't have a corresponding entry in their credentials manager they would be prompted using my description to add it.
- Entries could be exported and shared as well (with passwords scrubbed)
Example Entry Tableau:
| Alias | Tableau Prod |
| Description | Tableau Production Server |
| UserID | JPhillips |
| Password | ********* |
| + |
Then when configuring a tool you could put in something like [Tableau Prod].[Password] and it would read in the value.
Or maybe for Sharepoint:
| Alias | TeamSP |
| Description | Team sharepoint location |
| UserID | JPhillips |
| Password | ********* |
| URL | http://sharepoint.com/myteam |
| + |
Or perhaps for a team file location:
| Alias | TeamFiles |
| Description | Root directory for team files |
| Path | \\server.net\myteam\filesgohere |
| + |
Any of these values could be referenced in tool configurations, formulas, macro inputs by specifying the Alias and field.
We have a need to be able to trace the lineage of fields being processed through Alteryx - and it has to be done at a field level to satisfy our regulator. In essence, we have to be able to show exactly where a particular field came from, and demonstrate that we can trust this field. NOTE: If we could do this - then we could also use this information to make EVERY canvas faster, by checking for unused fields and making suggestions to remove these unused fields early in the flow.
In order to do this - it would be great if there were an option to force explicit field names in the Alteryx XML so that we can trace a specific field.
- Alteryx currently only makes a note of a field name if it is changing that field which is very economical - but it makes tracing fields impossible.
- Desire is for every tool to write the field list to the XML definition for every field that it knows about (just like it looks in the UI)
Example:
Here's a simple canvas:
- 3 fields coming in from an input
- Select tool with these 3
- output of three fields into a file
These three fields are not mentioned anywhere in the XML
Hi all,
Would it be possible to update the What's new page for 2019.4 to include the key features in this release (in my mind, one of the biggest features is the SQL formatting)?
Currently if you go to the What's new link in Designer, it takes you to the right webpage, but there is no content for 2019.4
Additionally - would it be possible to keep a few releases on this page - often people skip 2 or 3 updates so it's worth keeping the top highlights of the last 4 releases there so that people can see the new features and explore them.
The great thing about What's New pages is the ability to explore new features, so it's worth linking out to examples on a page like this if possible.
Sometimes I want to copy just the Name and Type fields from the metadata in the Results window. Even when selecting this option, however, all 5 available fields still get copied and pasted. I would like to see this change to work as expected and only copy those cells selected.
Cc @DultonM
Hey @APolly
You and the team have been doing a lot of innovative changes to the results window for data.
Could I ask for an uplift to the results window for Workflow Messages?
Summary: Error messages in the workflow results window cannot be fully viewed - have to be copied into Notepad and then reformatted before you can read.
Request: Allow user to double-click to see full readable version of a workflow result message
Detail:
If you have an error message in a workflow result - it gives you a message that is often longer than the window allows and there is no cell-viewer option
As a result, there is really no way to get to the important part of the error message to understand what's going on, other than to use Notepad
Step 1: Copy into Notepad
(you can see the end of line characters being misunderstood)
Step 2: Manually clean this up by breaking on the line breaks
And now you can see the important part of the result message..
Could we rather add the ability to double-click on a result message in the result window and bring up a modal window that formats the error message for you (similar to the modal window used for XML editing of a tool). That would eliminate this entire wasteful effort of trying to read an error message and having to use Notepad?
The eMail setup for the eMail tool and the eMail notifications are subtly different - in that the eMail notifications screen does not offer an explicit location for port. This is important if the SMTP server does not use the default port. You may be able to do this with : notation, but it would be better to create an explicit field for this.
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patrick_digan
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Create point and give it a name in one step
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joe_lipski
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Tool Palette Navigation
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KylieF
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Dynamic Input Tool - Text Input (or Text Editor)
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KylieF
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Assisted Modelling should support/read all field t...
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KylieF
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Function Key to bring me back to Configuration
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KylieF
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Retain special characters in crosstab column names
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KylieF
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Comment/Uncomment Blocks of Code in Formula and Fi...
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patrick_digan
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Ability to access rows using index (like python):
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KylieF
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Option to change UNION: MANUALLY CONFIGURE FIELDS ...
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KylieF
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Dynamic input - error if a file is skipped
