Alteryx Designer Desktop Knowledge Base

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When using Auto Insights uploader v1.4 for Designer 2021.4, DCM needs to be enabled. And SDK Access Mode must be Allow instead of AllowAll
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This article explains the steps in configuring the Personal Access Token in Tableau Online server, in order to use this in Alteryx Designer for a successful PAT(Personal Access Token) based connection
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How to set up Data Connection Manager (DCM) for Designer and Server?
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Upon configuring a Render Tool to output to a PowerPoint Presentation, the resulting file is corrupt.
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The PCXML file created by the Allocate Report tool returns "ComposerDoc::GetCSSProperty: Unknown error" when opening it.
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Alteryx.write() returns "XmlParse Error: the attribute "type" is missing“ if there is a double-quote in the column name and the double quote is followed by a space and more characters.
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Status 500: Server Error UNKNOWN_EXCEPTION: An unexpected error occurred. Please include this ErrorId if you contact support: 1049741870-255018 (1453348545)
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When upgrading Designer from 2021.3 to 2021.4 or 2022.1, you may encounter an error about SRCComposer_x64.dll module not found
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Error "Unable to find the dll: "AlteryxBasePluginsEngine.dll"" in workflows containing a Python-based Connector and a Table Tool
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Google Big Query v3.0 Input tool with ‘Service-to-Service’ authentication errors with "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'message_types_by_name'"
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When you try to insert a record to an Amazon Redshift table which has a column with attribute IDENTITY(seed, step), the record is inserted fine, but the value of the first column to be inserted is null instead of the value being passed into the Output Data tool.
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Whenever attempting to connect HDFS to a Dynamic Input Tool, users may encounter the error: "Server root URL must be in the form "http://server:port""
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Receive error “Get Table List Error: Win32 Exception” when connecting to Databricks.
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Input-Data-Tool-does-not-retrieve-all-the-rows-from-a-table-or-view-when-connecting-to-SAP-HANA.
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When connecting to Databricks and querying long text fields, the data being returned is truncated to 254 characters.
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Opening an Excel binary file (.XLSB) in an Input Data Tool crashes Designer if Windows patches are not installed.
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