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Gallery - input data - share drive - Saving to Alteryx Gallery with personal credentials

Inactive User
Not applicable

Hi all,

 

we want to run a workflow in the gallery, that runs perfectly locally. The workflow reads in data from a share drive.

If we run the workflow on the share drive, the workflow can not setup a connection to the share drive.

 

How can we configure the workflow? If we save the workflow into the Gallery, we can not specify credentials.

 

Thanks for your help

 

 

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DavidThorpe
Alteryx
Alteryx

Hi @Inactive User 

 

Firstly, ensure you are using UNC paths to your shared drives rather than the mapped name (https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Server-Knowledge-Base/Workflow-Dependencies/ta-p/49696) and that the Alteryx Server has access to these. 

 

Secondly, you can set the 'Run As' account globally in the server system settings - many server implementations opt to use a service account that has access to all data sources and choose to configure that account:

DavidThorpe_0-1575626192849.png

 

See more resources here:

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/Schedule-workflow-on-Company-Gallery-with-shared-folder-file/td-p/418716

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/Scheduled-Workflow-not-able-to-read-files-from-network-drive/td-p/108904

 

If this has resolved your problem, please mark it as solved - otherwise please let me know!

 

Thanks


David

Inactive User
Not applicable

Hi all,

thanks for the answer. Is there a way, that you can limit the access to certain collections in the Gallery and how would you do that?

 

Thank you,

Frank

DavidThorpe
Alteryx
Alteryx