Alteryx Promote Ideas

Some customers would like to log all inputs & outputs that go into each model. The goal is to save every JSON request and response with minimal (or no) impact to latency. 

One key challenge that we have is promoting regular canvasses (not just advanced analytics models).

It would be very useful if Promote could be made part of the core product of the server:

a) split the server into 1;2;3 environments (Dev; UAT; Prod)

b) Promote then manages the workflow to promote an asset between these environments, with a configurable workflow that allows for signoffs; diff checks; control checks (e.g. are people using tools in the right way; DB connection strings etc); and then writing a copy into the firm source-code repository.

c) Promote should also then change the links in canvasses to point to a prod version of the databases and APIs if relevant.

This process is currently extremely manual and labour intensive; so if we could apply the same Promote process to regular canvasses it would be a big time saving for our admin teams.

cc: @revathi

Hello,

First of all Many thanks to the team for the revamp of the reporting tools. It's so nice to see it's getting a bit more dynamic. 

- I'd love to have more options extended to the graph, such as  being able to add 3 dimensions to a scatter plot, just like below 

- Or being able to have dynamic plot size such as :

- Or again, being able to have a filter in the Interactive Chart (just like the one in the insight tool) would be a great feature to have

- Having Bart chart in differents orientation 

Thanks for reading!

send application and server logs from a promote instance to Elasticsearch using logstash or fluentd

It would be extremely useful to have an option to paginate over the output of a Promote Alteryx model. 

For example, suppose the output of a model is :

[
{
"object_id": 1
"class" : 1
},
{
"object_id": 2
"class" : 0
}
...
]

...if that output contains hundred of thousands of items, it could be important to be able to paginate over that output instead of returning the whole thing at once and risking a timeout.

So there we have a hosted version of Alteryx Server at gallery.alteryx.com

Why not to have a "hosted" version for Promote

• Would be possible to test it
• See example deployments
• Deploy basic models from Alteryx Trial to "Promote" trial
• Even this can generate a new revenue stream (pay as you score)

Hello Team,

If we have the flexibility to add new formula any where in the formula tool not just at the bottom of the existing formula's that would be great.

Right now after development if there is change and an additional formula is required which will be input for existing formulas in Formula tool then effort to change is high, if we have the flexibility to add formula at any place in formula tool then the effort will be less.

Alternate Solution : Add one more formula tool before the existing formula tool and include the new formula but i

think if the formula tool has the flexibility to add formula anyplace possible that would be great.

Thank You,

Visali

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