Alteryx Designer Knowledge Base

When utilizing the new PostgreSQL bulk loader to write to the database you get an error.

If you have installed a Designer 2020.2 and later (along with having an active license for them) but the Intelligence suite tools seem to be missing you can follow these steps to reinstall them.

When trying to create a new dataset using PowerBi Tool, Designer shows 400 Bad Request error

When installing alteryx, the installer gets stuck on the python dependency window

Error while installing additional R packages in Alteryx Designer - "GenericTool (1): Can't find plugin "AlteryxRPluginEngine.dll""

Error when using the Assisted Modeling tool on a Proxy environment

Making a copy of a workflow that contains a Python tool will cause the JupyterGuidDir to be duplicated. Because of this reason, both copies will point to the same Jupyter Notebook document. If the user makes changes on one copy, the other will be changed too which is not desirable.

ERROR: "Could not build wheels for cryptography which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly" while installing OneDrive tools in Alteryx Designer

When publishing a workflow to Gallery or Scheduler (Designer + Desktop Automation) or when packaging a workflow for export, checking the boxes for what to include and what to exclude seems to work inconsistently as of Designer 2020.2. Here is a workaround to cover you until the issue is resolved in a future release.

Error: "Unsupported data type 'bit'", when writing data with a Boolean to Snowflake.

In a virtualized environment, can Macros path be visible and accessible only to the user that creates it and not to other users?

Error: "Failed to connect to okta. Error code=401" when connecting to Snowflake using Okta SSO and MFA.

Receiving timeout errors when attempting to use the MultiSubnetFailover=true parameter in a SQL Server Availability Group with a multi-subnet listener.

How to connect to SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and extract data in Alteryx Designer.

Alteryx doesn't read some unicode characters correctly

While trying to connect to Snowflake from Alteryx Designer, using Input Data tool, the following error is thrown after running the workflow: Error: Input Data (1): Error SQLExecute: No active warehouse selected in the current session. Select an active warehouse with the 'use warehouse' command.