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This is a QoL-request, and I love me some QoL-updates!
While I'm developing I often need the output of a workflow as input for the next phase of my development. For example: an API run returns job location, status, and authentication ids. I want to use these in a new workflow to start experimenting what'll work best. Because of the experimenting part, I always do this in a new workflow and not cache and continue in my main flow.
Writing a temporary output file always feels like unnescesary steps, and tbh I don't want to write a file for a step that'll be gone before it reaches production. Esp if there is sensitive information in it.
Thanks.
We have 'CountDistinct' and 'Concatenate' options within Summarize tool.
But 'Concatenate' displays all the instances of value for a Grouped field, this might include lot of duplicates.
It would be great to have an option like 'ConcatDistinct'.
For example -
Group by 'Branch' and 'ConcatDistinct' Customer should result as Figure 1 instead of Figure 2 -
Figure 1-
Figure 2-
While this is achievable in different ways currently with a set of tools, but it gets tedious when number of fields is large from which distinct values are to be captured.
Thank you,
Rohan.
Hi there Alteryx team,
When we load data from raw files into a SQL table - we use this pattern in almost every single loader because the "Update, insert if new" functionality is so slow; it cannot take advantage of SSVB; it does not do deletes; and it doesn't check for changes in the data so your history tables get polluted with updates that are not real updates.
This pattern below addresses these concerns as follows:
- You explicitly separate out the inserts by comparing to the current table; and use SSVB on the connection - thereby maximizing the speed
- The ones that don't exist - you delete, and allow the history table to keep the history.
- Finally - the rows that exist in both source and target are checked for data changes and only updated if one or more fields have changed.
Given how commonly we have to do this (on almost EVERY data pipe from files into our database) - could we look at making an Incremental Update tool in Alteryx to make this easier? This is a common functionality in other ETL platforms, and this would be a great addition to Alteryx.
I was looking at the ideas history to see if this was already posted and couldn't find it, but feel free to merge if there is a existing one.
The motivation for this is that I have a workflow that works perfectly when you hit the run button in Designer, but fails when runs from schedule (To local computer).
So the idea is to allow the users to run the workflows from within the scheduler, once a workflow has been scheduled (So it runs exactly as it'll be when the schedule triggers it, but without having to reschedule every time).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this possible in old (I mean very old) versions of Designer?
To enable a check mark kind of option to lock or edit the configuration window of each tool.
It could be very useful to keep safe the settings in the configuration window.
Passing data to the next app running in a chain from the gallery varies from challenging to impossible. An impossible situation I've found is when the same user needs to run multiple instances of the app simultaneously. Very difficult is just allowing two different users to run simultaneously without risk of passed data mixing between the two.
This idea would add the capability to pass values from one app in the chain into user variables in the next app in the chain.
Using Email tool, you are not able to send email via SMTP server that uses STARTTLS protocol and self-signed certificate for completing the handshake between the client and the server. You face an error:
This is due to the fact that the Alteryx Designer SMTP client uses cURL and it does not read the Microsoft cert store, but instead looks at a specific .pem file listed in the installation directory: {AlteryxInstall}\bin\RuntimeData\Certificates\cacert.pem
I would really appreciate if Alteryx Designer will be able to look into the Microsoft certificates store so that it should be able to use self-signed certificates available there.
Self-signed certificates are often use in the companies in order to get more secures their own communications.
Thanks
please refer to the case #00447188 for more details
The ARIMA tool provides a ton of valuable information with just a small amount of effort. And the "I" anchor efficiently outputs test results to evaluate the effectiveness of the model.
Annoyingly, in the Browse tool off the "I" anchor, test definitions such as MPE/MAPE/MASE cannot be read when hovering without widening the Configuration window beyond the chart above. Definitions have a wider range than the chart itself. The user has to manually widen and then subsequently unwiden the Configuration window to read.
Idea would be for the tooltips when hovering to be as wide as the chart above. That would avoid repetitive resizing of the Configuration window.
The Data Preview of the Formula Tool is SO helpful !
Make it better by allowing preview on other rows than the first
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