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This may be a little controversial. As of today, when you buy an Alteryx Server, the basic package covers up to 4 cores :
https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Server-Knowledge-Base/How-Alteryx-defines-cores-for-licensing-our-products/ta-p/158030
I have always known that. But these last years, the technology, the world has evolved. Especially the number of cores in a server. As an example, AMD Epyc CPU for server begin at 8 cores :
https://www.amd.com/en/processors/epyc-7002-series
So the idea is to update the number of cores in initial package for 8 or even 16 cores. It would :
-make Alteryx more competitive
-cost only very few money
-end some user frustration
Moreover, Alteryx Server Additional Capacity license should be 4 cores.
Best regards,
Simon
It should be possible to schedule chained apps. Particularly useful when the first workflow in a chain runs a check and if the check returns true then the next workflows run and if the check returns false then the next workflow should not run.
Possibly related to:
Schedule Configured Analytic Apps - Alteryx Community
Currently, if you want to change from Built-in to Windows Authentication, you have to:
To switch authentication types, you'll need to start from scratch.
1. Stop the AlteryxService
2. Open a Windows Folder Explorer and go to the directory you have MongoDB loaded (System Settings->Controller->Persistence->Data Folder
3. Rename or delete that folder (a simple backup would be to rename the folder, you can move it to another directory as well)
4. Open the Alteryx Server System Settings and click next to Gallery->General.
5. Select the new Authentication process you would like to use.
6. Finish the System Settings and the new database will be created.
The Gallery and Scheduler databases are closely tied. Workflows that are uploaded, results created, and schedules created from the Gallery are stored in the Scheduler database. So you will need to start from scratch on both the Gallery and in the Scheduler.
This is a non-starter for any company that has any amount of time invested in establishing the use of the Gallery. Starting over is not an option, but improving security, streamlining access protocols as a part of overall data governance is a must. Please consider fixing the authentication protocol to make it so we don't have to start over.
Thank you,
As Alteryx leans more into the Data Science space - it becomes more important to be able to keep rich documentation of the project along with the Alteryx Asset. This does also require the concept of a "project" on the alteryx server, which would allow for meta-tags; and various different documents to be added with the project.
This would include things like Requirement documents; test evidence; test data sets etc.
This would extend Alteryx from a data prep engine to more of a data-science workbench as different user groups can participate in a specific project.
Use case: I need to schedule a workflow to run every 2 hours each day, with the first run at 7am and the last run at 7pm
Current solution: I need to create seven daily schedules for each hour that i need the workflow to run
Idea: Add an intraday "Start Time" and "Stop Time", or "Between" to the "Minutes / Hours" schedule type, so i can create one schedule that meets the use case requirements
Example schedule with new parameters that meets use case requirements:
Start Time = 7:00 AM
Stop Time = 7:00 PM
Repeat Every = 2 hours
Start Time could default to 12:00 AM
Stop Time could default to 11:59 PM
It would be helpful to have a central Logging tool for large & complex environments.
This would be useful to allow teams to have a central way of logging data transformation errors by error-type; severity; alteryx Canvas; etc.
Right now, there's a message tool, but this doesn't provide a way to create well structured central logging across a team; especially once deployed to a server environment.
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Today, if I want to save a job onto the Alteryx Gallery, I need full permissions to do so and it is a manual process. For some organizations, this level of access is deemed excessive, which can make properly leveraging the Alteryx Gallery difficult. Having the ability to write a "deployment" script that could publish a workflow to the Gallery, and potentially add a new workflow to a Collection would be incredibly helpful in these cases.
Option to Zip All Outputs
For workflows that produce various different output files, I think it would be nice if the Gallery had the functionality to create a single zip file containing all outputs. The user would opt in or out of this functionality using a checkbox in the Gallery workflow settings (for apps, this checkbox could also appear as an additional setting above "Questions"). After the workflow has been run, the user would only see the zip file in the output preview instead of each individual output file.
This functionality would create a more user-friendly experience as it would eliminate the need for zip file creation workarounds, such as using the Run Command Tool or the "zipfile" Python library to create zip files (these options also do not generate a zip file in the Gallery output preview).
When posting an app to the Gallery, if the app has, say, one PCXML output for the user to see, and one Excel file for the user to download, it would be helpful for to be able to specify which shows first to the user. For example, I have a PCXML that gives the user summary tables, and instructions on how to go to the drop down above and select the second report, click on the Excel icon, and download it. But if the Excel report shows up first, then there is no ability to give them instructions and many simply won't be savy enough to go find the PCXML in the drop down.
Alteryx Designer is an amazing data tool but it’s partner, "the Scheduler" needs some much needed upgrades. The Scheduler interface that pops up from Alteryx Designer does need a complete make over. I’m not going to address this but rather focus on the functionality that if delivered makes the Scheduler much more useful.
Today I’m reading our Mongo db scheduler data using an Alteryx workflow and Tableau to show what’s happening on the Scheduler. This dashboard is what we refer to frequently to see the health of our companies data pipeline. I’ll share both files soon.
Here are the top 5 features for the Scheduler.
Why: At midnight we set off several workflows. We want to centrally manage which runs first based on a common ‘priority’ field.
Why: Some workflows only run on the main controller due to file system references. Also a worker can be tuned for CPU or Disk I/O and workflows that can benefit from this tuning. Selecting a disk I/O intensive workflow to run on a server tuned for Disk I/O would speed up our workflows.
FYI: We used the Runner tool for a short time to resolve this issue but learned quickly that the Runner tool is like a bull in a china shop and brought our server down. The runner tool as it is today is not an option for production work.
Why: This would allow you to run several workflows one after another. For example the first would read from a data source, the second would do calculations on the data and the third workflow would publish the data. All workflows are given a ‘workflow-number’ which can be seen in the scheduler list and read from Mongo db.
Why: Some workflows fail and if attempted to run again may work. This includes issues with locked files and workflows dependent on processes outside of Alteryx.
Why: Some workflows start to hog resources and need to be killed. If a new workflow is added this is a good way to protect the overall scheduled workflows.
Big time user of the Gallery API. In fact, I wrote an R package for it (shameless plug: https://cran.r-project.org/package=alterryx).
It is great that you can queue a job for an application using the Gallery API but it would be great if I could also cancel a running job.
Hello,
We recently upgraded our on-prem instance of Alteryx Server/Gallery to version: -
We have noticed that the search functionality in various areas (top and right-side) no longer return results using a "contains" but rather it is doing an "exact" or "starts with" keyword search. This is very frustrating to many users as we can't easily find our workflows quickly compared to previous versions.
Please improve search functionality.
Hello,
Tableau has a nice Postman Collection available... it's really easy to use since you can download or forkt it on Postman and all you have to do is to write the variable values.
I would like the same thing but for Alteryx.
Best regards,
Simon
Hi everyone,
Since the Home page has been replaced by the My Workspace page as the main page on the Gallery, end-users are getting confused or at least uncomfortable with this transition.
It would be amazing to change the default main page to the Public tab or even remove/deactivate the My Files tab for these users.
Removing /deactivating the My Files tab will also correct an issue generated when an Artisan is downgraded to an end-user. Currently, these users can see their workflows in the My Files tab but can't access them.
Idea based on @phottovy 's question: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Server-Discussions/Change-quot-Public-quot-to-default-view-...
I would like to collaborate with my team, but also maintain my own personal private studio.
Is that on the road map?
-Dan
In order to migrate workflows from our UAT environment to a Production server environment, we are looking for an API capability to work with the server:
- Query canvasses by name or ID (to get a list of canvasses)
- Extract Canvas to a particular location (by ID)
- Upload canvas including dependancies (with parameters for team; collection; etc)
This would assist with automating the UAT to Prod process until Alteryx Promote can step into this gap.
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If a job fails it would be perfect if we could set something in the workflow settings so that the job would retry again in X number of minutes for the next Y number of times. We have jobs that connect to external resources and sometimes the network will reset and will cause the connections to all drop. An example would be I want a workflow to try again in 10 minutes for a maximum of 5 times so over the next 50 mins it will retry every 10 mins if it fails
At some point we would like Alteryx Gallery to support SSO via SAML and Authorization via AD groups. The way I want is to have Authentication via SAML and Authorization via AD groups. For instance one of our apps Tableau: It does authentication via SAML (SSO) and for authorization, we import AD groups into Tableau thrice a day(stores the groups in a .xml file), once the groups are in the Tableau, we secure the objects within Tableau using that LDAP groups (which kind of become local groups after import). Basically the userid after the successful authentication step is used by the app for authorization.
I just stated Tableau as one of the ways to implement Authentication and Authorization for an enterprise app. If Alteryx Gallery needs to be an enterprise app, you will need to look into this idea.
Thanks
Raj
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