why doesn't render output show in gallery?

I am new to Alteryx Server. When I run the analytic app in Designer, I see the render output, but when I run it in Server, it says "no output." I have the Render tool configured for "Temporary PDF Document." I also tried "Temporary Composer File," but got the same result.

Based on other related posts, it looks like this should work. I suspect it is something in how our server is configured. Any help would be appreciated.

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patrick_digan

I haven't been able to get UNC files to display either Smiley Frustrated I think your 2 options for display would be to 1) make it a relative reference by just providing the filename "testfile.pdf" and that will be displayed. or 2) keep your unc path in there and when uploading to the server be sure to click manage workflow assets and check the box for your output so that it gets packaged up. It should display your results in both of those cases.

The documents don't exist to my knowledge with the level of technical details that I would like to see. We've been pointed to the app building guidelines https://gallery.alteryx.com/static/AppBuildingGuidelines.pdf and the help files http://help.alteryx.com/10.1/index.htm#TempFiles.htm

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patrick_digan

Great question! It used to work, but they made a switch in version 10.1. To display your render tool output, you will need to select the last output mode:choose a specific output file. You can then output a file like "temporary.pdf" or "temporary.pcxml" for pdfs or composer files. We brought this change up to some folks at Alterx and their response included this: "Usage of %temp%, or writing to any location that is considered “temporary” (ex. temporary report output files) when building workflows for execution in a server/gallery is not a recommended practice, and will indeed fail and cause odd behavior."

Hope that helps!

blyons

Thank you very much for your reply. However, I just tried setting it to a UNC path which is available to everyone in our organization, with a fixed filename, and got the same result. Any more ideas?

Is there some document that details this that I have not been able to find? The Help about the Render tool certainly doesn't mention it.

I am running version 10.5.

Thanks again!

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