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Alteryx Designer Desktop Knowledge Base

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How To: Start the Alteryx Service   The Alteryx Service powers the scheduling functionality of Alteryx. In order for schedules to be created or executed, the Alteryx Service must be running. Follow the guide below for different ways to start the Alteryx Service   Prerequisites   Alteryx Designer Admin version Scheduler add-on required Alteryx Server   Procedure A - Start from the Services Window   Open the Services snap-in window using one of the below methods: Search Services in the Start Menu Press the Windows+R keys to open the Run dialog, type services.msc, and press Enter Open the Control Panel click/tap on the Administrative Tools icon, and double click/tap on Services shortcut Right click on Alteryx Service and click Start   Procedure B - Start via System Settings   Open the Alteryx System Settings (can be found in the Start Menu by search "Alteryx System Settings" Click the Next button until you reach the end of the System Settings, then click Finish You will then see a "Please Wait" message that indicated the Service is attempting to start Please note that if the service fails to start for any reason, you will not receive any message to indicate the failure when starting the service this way   Procedure C - Start via Command Line   Open Command Prompt as an Administrator Type the following command that references your installation path. The below example is the default installation path: "C:\Program Files\Alteryx\bin\AlteryxService.exe" start   Additional Resources   Alteryx Service will not start: No suitable servers Error found in LastStartupError.txt Gallery Service failed to start in a timely fashion
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This article covers how to use Run Command events to run a workflow.
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Error "Unable to find the dll: "AlteryxBasePluginsEngine.dll"" in workflows containing a Python-based Connector and a Table Tool
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How Alteryx Designer and Server use file paths
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Platform Product: Designer Issues – Working with Alteryx Customer Support Engineers (CSEs)
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An error is thrown when scheduling a workflow in Desktop Scheduler in a non-English language. This only occurs with the 'Custom' option under Frequency.
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When publishing a workflow to Gallery or Scheduler (Designer + Desktop Automation) or when packaging a workflow for export, checking the boxes for what to include and what to exclude seems to work inconsistently as of Designer 2020.2. The workaround will tide you over until you can upgrade to 2021.2.
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Everything you need to get started with your own instance of Designer + Scheduler!
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When running a workflow via the Scheduler (for Designer with Automation), the following error is observed:
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Why did all of my scheduled workflows fail? What does the error “Logon Failure: unknown user name or bad password” mean? Read this article to find out!
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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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  On Alteryx version 10.1, if you try to schedule a workflow to to run from its original location on disk and the workflow path starts with a digit, for example C:\1testpath\workflow.yxmd, the workflow will fail to run on the Scheduler. When the job fails, you will see the job at the bottom of the Results view within the Scheduler window and the job date is January 01 0001 12:00:00 AM - this indicates a corrupt job. All other combinations work as expected.          This is a known issue that is being addressed. The workaround is to rename the folder so that the path does not start with a digit, for example C:\a1testpath\. Alternatively, you can schedule the job to run a copy of the workflow stored in the scheduler DB. 
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What’s the difference between Scheduling a workflow from its original location on disk vs as a copy in the Scheduler DB?
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So you've installed the licenses to run Scheduler. Now what?
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I know I set this right, but it's not doing what I want it to!
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Error: Can’t find the file: “[path\FileName]”. Make sure the file path is correct. Error text being revised from Error: File not found "[path\FileName]"
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This article is an extension to the community article "Scheduling as a copy in the Scheduler DB vs On Disk", and is specifically aimed for Designer + Desktop Automation installations only.
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Upon creating a BINGO game, I came across a technique that I thought could be useful in "real world" scenarios for users who are attempting to iterate a process and then replenishing the data after a certain amount of time.
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