Alteryx Designer Desktop Knowledge Base

Definitive answers from Designer Desktop experts.
There may be a time when there is a need to gather more information on why the Alteryx installation/uninstallation fails. This article will show you how you can enable the installer log.
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SharePoint Sites v1.1.1+ drop down spins indefinitely. The list of Sites never loads.
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Installing Starter Kits fails with the following error as the LastInstallDir registry string cannot be found in Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SRC\Alteryx.
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All levels of logging (warning, error, debug, info, etc) is treated as an error and return as an error in Production mode of Python tool.
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How to Edit Environment Variables for Oracle Data Connection
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When using the CASS tool on the canvas it gives the error: "You have found a bug. Replicate, then let us know. We shall fix it soon."
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SMTP settings of the most common email providers for configuration in the Email Tool and Email Events.
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the issue occurs when opening a data source in Designer
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Where do you start when you see "An Unhandled Exception occurred"?
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This article explains how to troubleshoot and resolve the error "You have found a bug. Replicate, then let us know." when using a Python-based connector
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Directions for setting up Google Big Query with Bulk Write in Designer 22.3
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These macros allow you to convert IP addresses to DWORD formatting and vice-versa for IP validation. These can be used to determine if an IP address was part of a range and, if it was, create two new ranges on either side of it.
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When upgrading to 2022.3 the previous way of formatting in the SQL Editor Parser no longer yields a successful query. You have to move the lines up one so that one of the entries (if multiple entries are listed) are next to the Select field and also the same for the From field.
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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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After upgrading Designer, clicking on the ellipsis(...) to launch the Query Builder window, results in error "Could not load type 'ActiveDatabaseSoftware.ActiveQueryBuilder.SnowflakeMetadataProvider' from assembly 'ActiveDatabaseSoftware.ODBCMetadataProvider2"
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Assisted Modeling tool will cause an exception if a data set is too huge. Anything around 40K is fine.
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In order to output DUNS numbers from Alteryx's DNB Analytical File, your Account Executive at Alteryx would need to assist you further.
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