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Can Alteryx Write Custom Messages to the Output Log?

AndrewL
Alteryx
Alteryx
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Question

Can Alteryx Write Custom Messages to the Output Log?

Answer

Yes! Take a look at the Message Tool. This tool allows you to create custom messaging within Alteryx based on conditions you can specify.

 

First decide when you want the message to be sent to the output log:

Before First Record

Before Rows Where Expression is True (specify your condition in the expression box)

AFter Last Record

After All Downstream Tools Have Completed

 

Then you can specify the Message Type choosing from:

Message

Warning

Field Conversion Error

Error

Error - Stop Processing Records

 

Once you select your Message Type, you can choose your Priority from Normal, Medium, or High.

 

Finally you can specify what the message is actually going to say. Whatever you put in the Message Expression box will show up in the Output Log of the Results window. You can also build out your message using fields if you need to indicate what piece of the data is causing an issue or needs to be called out.

 

Pull together the options to customize the messages you're seeing so you can follow the progress of your workflows and data.

 

Comments
paullimCH
7 - Meteor

Hi Andrew, 

Is it possible to extract only the Message Expression from the Output log, and push that to an external file (this file is dynamically defined).

 

Connecting the Message tool to the Render Tool does not seem to work.

 

Thanks in Advance

Paul