Alteryx Designer Desktop Knowledge Base
Definitive answers from Designer Desktop experts.How To: Embed an Internet Window in an Explorer Box
How To: Embed an Internet Window in an Explorer Box
You can house an internet window or file location within your workflow - additional files, embedded help videos, etc.
Procedure
With the Explorer Box you can open a webpage or a specific file location from within your workflow! This would be handy for having a community article open in your workflow for reference; or even a training video (yes! youtube does play in this window!). Or you could have the location of your commonly used input file for easy drag and drop into your workflow!
As you can see in the screenshot below, I have both the Alteryx homepage open and the default save location of the sample data that is installed with the Designer. Right clicking in the file browse window gives the same familiar options you would get if you were to right click in a normal windows file browser:
Attached is the same workflow from the screenshot above - please note that the file location portion of this example may not work if your sample data is installed in a location other than the default location ofC:/Program Files/Alteryx/Samples/SampleData. To correct this or just view the the explorer box working properly you can paste any path on your machine in the explorer boxes configuration window:
