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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.
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.
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