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Alteryx Galery - Excel Sheet Selection Pop-up

ffoeding
5 - Atom

Hi everyone,

 

I hope someone can help me with an issue regarding deploying a workflow on the Alteryx Gallery.

I've developed a workflow and successfully uploaded it to our Alteryx Gallery. This workflow requires an Excel file as input, which the user should select interactively via a File Browse Tool.

To achieve this, I've used the following configuration:

  • An Input Data Tool is connected to a sample Excel file and reads a specific sheet (e.g., "Sheet1" or "Data").
  • A File Browse Tool allows the user to select the Excel input file.
  • An Action Tool connects the File Browse Tool to the Input Data Tool to dynamically update the Excel file path

 

Every time a user runs the workflow in the Gallery and selects an Excel file, a pop-up window appears, prompting the user to select the Excel sheet.

Screenshot 2025-09-04 105046.png

I do not want to have the option of selecting "<List of Sheet Names>". I only want to be able to select the Sheet itself.

 

Is there a specific setting or another method to suppress this behavior in the Alteryx Gallery? Do I need to use a different tool or make

different configuration?

Thank you in advance for your help!

 

Best regards, Felix

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jrgo
14 - Magnetar

Nothing that I'm able to spot. Wonder if that was intentional or not (honestly don't recall if this is how it's been on older versions or is a recent change).

 

Maybe open a case with Alteryx Support to confirm or submit an Idea to add an option to hide this selection.

abacon
12 - Quasar

@ffoeding @jrgo This has always been the case since I have used the application functionality within Alteryx. You might be able to predefine the sheet that is selected. I would add a label above the file browse app letting users know to ignore this option.

 

Bacon

ffoeding
5 - Atom

@jrgo @abacon thanks for your replys! I think I will post an idea to address this topic. 

abacon
12 - Quasar

@ffoeding To close this feed, could you mark the answers as the solution so others may find it faster, as others may have this same question.

 

Bacon