Alteryx Designer Desktop Knowledge Base

Definitive answers from Designer Desktop experts.
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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How to add a custom domain within the Salesforce Tools.
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Guide on configuring and capturing a Fiddler trace for Troubleshooting issues.
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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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What problems does DCM solve, what are its limitations, how does it differ from Server Data Connections, and what are syncing and sharing connections and further recommendations.
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One of the greatest strengths of modern web APIs is their flexible, developer-friendly nature, which provides numerous options for both the provider and the user. However, this flexibility can make it more intimidating for business users to deal with the various data formats that these APIs provide. The purpose of this article is to familiarize you with the main data formats used by the vast majority of web APIs, and provide the basic knowledge that will allow you to confidently process the data they return into a typical tabular format.
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When using the download tool with an SFTP or HTTPS connection, you may receive the error - Error transferring data: failed initialization. This often occurs when Designer can't agree on a cipher suite to communicate with the host server.
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Google Drive Input tool only returns a fraction of records instead of everything.
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With the changes to with the newer python connectors, adding the certificate to the connector is a slightly difference process. Normally this should not be necessary but for testing it might need to be done.
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This article discussed about the Alteryx Connectors deprecation, for initial set of connectors, and clarifies the questions around the Connectors deprecation.
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How to check the current Salesforce API version of the Salesforce Input Tool being utilized.
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Connectors troubleshooting landing page
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Installing a Python-based YXI Connector tool in a proxy server or restricted network environment can be challenging. This is because the install process reaches out through the network to download Python packages and fails.
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API connections give access to many web-based applications, database systems, or programs by exposing objects or actions to a developer in an abstracted format that can easily be integrated into another program.
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Connectors (latest versions) such as SharePoint and OneDrive are unable to decode a customer’s certificate in the certificate store that contains some characters.
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How to obtain and install the driver and setup ODBC connection DSN connection
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AADSTS900432: Confidential Client is not supported in Cross Cloud request. Error code 900432
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The article provides steps to address the "WARNING: url:'c:\Program FIles\Alteryx\bin\Miniconda3\Common_Config\Wheels' is ignored. It is either a non-existing path or lacks a specific scheme." and the "no matching distribution found for" error when installing YXI.
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As of SharePoint Tools v2.2.0, DCM needs to be used for the workflow to run successfully in gallery.
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SharePoint Sites v1.1.1+ drop down spins indefinitely. The list of Sites never loads.
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This document explains the steps to export HAR files by using Chrome Developer Tools built into Designer to investigate the interface of HTML GUI SDK tools.
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