Alteryx Server Ideas

I would love the ability to select multiple workflows at once to disable/edit/move workflows to a different studio or disable the schedule all at once (so like a check box to select them)- instead of having to manually select each one and move them and have to go back and forth.

This would also help during update time- as the longest part of the updates is waiting for the service to stop.  If i could select all/multiple schedules to disable at once- then the service would be able to stop when I chose (instead of waiting for scheduled workflows to run)

When installing and configuring Alteryx, the wizard allows the administrator to select the Gallery authentication to be used among:

Built-in

Integrated Windows authentication

Integrated Windows authentication with Kerberos

SAML authentication

The note states:

Once an authentication type has been selected, it should not be changed. Changing it may cause technical problems.

The gallery manual states "Once an authentication type has been selected it should not be changed or Gallery functionality may be compromised." 

https://help.alteryx.com/server/current/admin/Configuration/SystemSettings/Gallery.htm?Highlight=%22...

If you are reading this idea suggestion, I hope it is not too late for you. Why allow the user to change the authentication method once the install is completed? What are the options to solve this?

One option would be to grey-out the "Authentication Type" section in the  "Gallery Authentication" screen, so the user is not able to change authentication methods once after the first configuration is set. This would still allow the user to change SAML settings.

Another option, if somehow there is a reason why a user would want to change authentication types even though it is not supported, what about changing the layout to make it more difficult to change the authentication type.

What are your other suggested changes?

This is not relevant if this idea is implemented https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Server-Ideas/Allow-changing-of-Gallery-Authentication-witho...

However, I would imagine that a UI change would be a lot easier to implement that supporting overhauling the user management in the MongoDB.

Mongocontroller.log during its MongoDB dump processing records DB admin password in clear text.    This poses a security risk now only to the company but to the MongoDB itself. 

Is there a security patch ready to be pushed out to eliminate this risk?

This may be more from an admin standpoint but once I add workers into a cluster (controller token added), I have no way of knowing if the worker is now added to the cluster unless a workflow starts getting serviced and I view it from the 'View schedules' tab.

This causes issues specially when we have to add multiple of them and need to keep a track of which ones are added to the cluster or not.

On the admin page, I should be able to view the list of the workers that is currently existing on the cluster.

Hi all,

actually there is the possibility to delete a workflow on the gallery which has an active schedule in the background.
This has the impact that the schedule site is not available for anybody in the respective company and nobody is able to check their schedulelist.

Possible solution:

Implement a check, which tests if there exists an active workflow and inform the user that it is not possible to delete an "in use"-workflow.
Also show a link in the information window to the schedule that the user gets the possibility to delete the schedule.

KR

Hello Alteryx Team,

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.

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.

I would suggest to add an option that allows the creator of the App to deselect the field "<List of Sheet Names>", so that the User on the Server can not see and select this field.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Best regards, Felix

Our organization heavily leverages Active Directory for all data connections. We manage access to Alteryx Gallery Collections by Active Directory. If I want to use DCM, and share the connection, I can only specify an individual or a custom group of individuals. This is against our efforts to manage security and access usingDCM Active Directory. It would be incredibly beneficial for Alteryx DCM to support connection sharing using Active Directory. Another alternative would be to allow active directory groups to be added to custom user groups. 

I did not find a better category, but this issue relates to Data Connection Manager and credential setup with key files in a Server and Desktop environment.

Issue: When using key file credentials in DCM a Key File Path needs to be specified. This path cannot be a UNC or Mapped drive, has to be a local drive for Google BigQuery with the latest Simba ODBC driver at least. This prevents centralized credentials management and defeats the purpose of DCM. I understand this might be a driver limitation, however it's still an issue that I think Alteryx could handle.

Suggestion: Since the key file is simple text (JSON) file, it could be embedded (i.e. uploaded via the DCM interface) into the connection itself. That way it can be centrally distributed to the local computers when the DCM connections are synchronized from the server (or vica versa). I would also store them encoded for Information security reasons.

Bonus: Tying into this it would be really good if Alteryx Desktop would automatically sync Server DCM connections when a connection is made to Alteryx server the first time after the software was launched (i.e. opening a Server workflow) to keep it automatically updated.

TLS certificate lifespans will be changing starting in 2026. Managing certificates manually will become a headache for many Alteryx Server administrators. Create a method to allow automated TLS certificate installation in Alteryx Server.

47-day SSL/TLS certificates will be the new standard in 2029

My gallery have more than 100+ notifications. it hard to click one by one.
Want to have mark all as read button for this.

if possible split message to 2 type, admin and system, where:

1. admin (for communication)

2. system (grant user access, share workflow and etc.) 

During a recent project, I explored the Alteryx Server Download a Workflow Package API Endpoint, which includes an optional versionId parameter. The documentation suggests that this parameter should allow users to retrieve specific, prior versions of a workflow package by supplying the appropriate version ID. However, in practice, I found that regardless of which valid prior version ID was provided, the API always returned the current published version of the workflow.

This behavior presented a challenge for our automation use case, where we aimed to implement version control and retrieval solely through Alteryx Server, rather than relying on external tools like Git. After thorough testing and validation, I shared these findings with Zach Hamilton and Marty Moravec at Inspire 2025, who were able to confirm the behavior.

I appreciate the continued enhancements and support the Alteryx team provides for the Server platform and its APIs. Resolving this issue would greatly benefit users who depend on robust version management and automation capabilities within Alteryx Server. Thank you for considering this feedback, and I look forward to future improvements in this area.

For admins to be able to prioritize workflows, because by default, users are not allowed to prioritize jobs.

In combination with Quality of Service (3 - Critical Priority and above) and worker tagging, for example we have all workflows belonging to a project tagged to a specific worker, but since "Member" (default) users cannot prioritize jobs, these workflows would never run on this specific worker

Automatic Deletion of Logs files from Engine, Service and Gallery Folders for on perm servers

I think file explorer or management related to workflow in the server should be able to be seen, linked and reffered to so that much more creative way to check and use them in the server via multiple workflow can be realized. 

As the Alteryx Server administrator, I would like to see this functionally restored.

See attachment

The current Enterprise Utility Workflow does not have a match/look-up in place between the two environments for user ID's.  Thus, the migration workflow doesn't work without adding in a couple extra API calls.  When we upgrade to a new version of the utility, I have to add this back in. 

It would be nice if the workflow would come with this already configured.

There are some products in the Market whic allows to install multiple services as Windows service on a single server. 

In large organizations it is found that when we are running ALteryx Server in multi node setup at that time 1 worker server has only one Alteryx service installed and runs as single windows service. If we have configured FID with log on as a service FID in that case if one FID reached to its shared path mapping capacity 1018k then it stops authentication and windows service is not able to start.

If we have multiple services installed on the same server then we can configure like :

AlteryxService.exe : FID1

AlteryxService2.exe : FID2

AlteryxService3.exe : FID3

In this case we can utilize the server compute and enhance the multi tenancy instead of adding more additional server.

The gallery needs to implement basic auditing in the data connections.Currently, there is no way to determine who or when a data connection was created or updated.

The dataConnections Collection contains data connections with these keys

When there is an app that has multiple tabs across the top but can extend down below the page, the user will scroll down to complete the boxes and click the 'Next' button at the bottom. 

This takes the user to the next tab but remains at the bottom of the page.

It would be very useful for this 'Next' button to jump back to the top of the page.