Alteryx Designer Desktop Ideas

Please add a toggle for Dark Mode as Alteryx, after all these years of using it, is burning out my retinas. 

The OS and most apps have a Dark Mode theme so flipping back to a bright white canvas is very jarring.  I tried to adjust the canvas colors in a more muted way but never can get it to work satisfactorily and still be as easy to read as the retina burning default.  

Currently the InDB tools require to select a DSN that is defined on your computer.

This makes any workflow which uses a DSN incredibly painful to deploy to the server, since the DSN needs to be created on every worker node and for a large server environment this can  mean creating DSN entries on 6+ worker nodes in prod plus prod server plus dev/UAT environment plus dev/UAT worker nodes.

Could we please change the InDB tools to default to DSN-less connections, where the connection persists the connection details in-line so that it can deploy to the server without a DSN setup (since all connection details are contained within the connection string)?

Thank you

Sean

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Hello,

Please add UI-related Themes to choose from such as a Dark Theme, so that all aspects of the UI changes accordingly.

Without a Dark Theme, it is very difficult to work in Designer for a long time.

Add these themes under User Settings --> Themes tab

Thanks!

I have been developing and accumulating custom functions over the years and they have proved to be very useful.  I am submitting these here.  I hope they are found to be beneficial.

Functions included in the attached file include:

• DateTime
  • StandardDate(String) - Transforms any valid string to the standard date format yyyy-mm-dd
• File
  • FileDirDepth(Path) - Returns the zero based depth of the path (zero being the root)
  • FileGetFolder(Path, Depth) - Returns the folder name given the zero based depth in the path (zero being the root)
• String
  • LeftPart(String, Separator) - Returns the left part of a string up to the first separator
  • RightPart(String, Separator) - Returns the right part of a string after the first separator
  • Split(String, Delimiter, Index) - Returns the zero indexed part of a delimited string
  • CleanSpace(String) - Trims string and replaces multiple spaces with a single space
  • UnicodeToASCIIBasic(String) - Replaces all Unicode Characters with ASCII Basic equivalents
• Test
  • InList(Variable, List) - If Variable is in List returns True. List must be pipe delimited
  • IsValidEmail(String) - Returns True if string is a valid email format
  • IsUUID(String) - Returns True if string is a valid UUID

To make these functions available in Alteryx, place the attached xml file in the folder C:\Program Files\Alteryx\bin\RuntimeData\FormulaAddIn if you have a standard installation. If the install is non-standard, find the \bin\RuntimeData\FormulaAddIn folder and place the attached xml file there.  Ateryx will need a restart for the functions to be available.