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Alteryx Designer Desktop Knowledge Base

Definitive answers from Designer Desktop experts.
Designer crashes when a forward slash (/) is used in the Output Name field of the Macro Output tool.
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Platform Product: Fuzzy Matching Issues – Working with Alteryx Customer Support Engineers (for use by CSEs and Alteryx Customers) To EXPEDITE the resolution of your case, please include the below information.
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Alteryx is upgrading our embedded Python version shipped with our latest 2020.4 release. This article will cover how this will impact tools developed with the Python SDK.
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Robocopy is a robust Windows Command Prompt utility for copying files from one location to another. Unfortunately, it uses exit code 1 to indicate success which Alteryx interprets as an error.
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Learn about the new 20.4 changes to Python.
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Some Salesforce users do not use Salesforce Security Tokens. An accepted IP range can be set up instead in Salesforce Admin. This article will walk you through the steps to modify the Salesforce Output tool to be able to be used without a Salesforce Security Token.
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Procedures on how to configure Designer for input of large, zipped text files for processing.
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This article details the required steps to transfer workflow schedules from one computer to another when using Desktop Scheduler and a SQLite database.
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How the 'Group Replacement Value for SQL IN Clause' works when using SQL: Update WHERE Clause in the Dynamic Input Tool
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Display issues when reading data with unicode characters from Oracle
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Data Cleansing tool doesn't work in 2020.4 when the Field name contains line breaks unix style line endings.
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Unhandled Exception when clicking on the Browse Tool when using an R and Cross Tab in the workflow
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"drop table" command with IN-DB tool doesn't work with IN-DB tool
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In some cases the Python tool will not start. This article discusses the common root cause that during installation there was not enough disk space for all the Python environment files to be created.
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This error is displayed on current workflows with R and then if you put a new R tool on a blank canvas
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When installing alteryx, the installer gets stuck on the python dependency window
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Very rarely Designer can crash with a big red X across a window. One such situation has been observed and resolved.
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