Alteryx Designer Desktop Knowledge Base

If a MalformedPacError occurs when no PAC script is in place, the connector tool must be modified to ignore PAC Scripts.

For a SQL Server connection, the Test Query in the SQL Editor is returning with message "Error opening : No Columns Returned."

How to Resolve display issues in Designer

When trying to license Alteryx Server on a Windows 8 based computer , the user receives the error "An internet connection is required for activation. Please connect to the internet and try again, or contact customer support. Contact your license administrator for help with licensing. Defect TCPE-196

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Report Basic Table Tool formats negative numbers with parenthesis rather than negative sign

How to fix the error "This product requires at least Internet Explorer 6.0" error when installing Alteryx Designer.

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The following error appears when configuring your credentials in the Dynamics CRM Tools, Azure Data Lake Tools, OneDrive Tools, or the PowerBI Output tool:

XML Parse tool does not detect specific child

AlteryxRunner.exe has stopped working

Alteryx.read() returns "attempt to seek past the end of the file" on an empty incoming data source

How to fix an error during installation that says "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable".

Error "An OLE DB Provider was not specified in the ConnectionString. An example would be, 'Provider=SQLOLEDB'" when converting an ODBC DSN-less connection to OLEDB

Visual Query Builder does not populate schemas containing only views for Snowflake

Corrupted Data when writing V_STRING, V_WSTRING, WSTRING to a CLOB using OCI or when writing V_STRING to a CLOB using ODBC

When attempting to activate Alteryx Designer or Alteryx Server through the product, an error message "an internet connection is required for activation" prevents online activation.

Adding or overwriting a worksheet in a workbook that contains a pivot table, corrupts the file and an attempt to repair the excel sheet removes the pivot.

When using Simba Snowflake 2.23.02.1012 some NULL values are transformed into encoded values

When trying to connect to your working Designer's Scheduler, you are getting the error "machine-name" is not an active controller

Python tool is not able to create misc files (JSON, YXDB) in the temporary location if the workflow is stored in a file path that is too long. This fails when running the workflow via the command line as the temporary location is created in the workflow location.