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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
We have groups asking within our organization for ways to check the status of a running workflow in Gallery. They are wanting to understand which step in the process the workflow has completed for longer-running workflows.
They are looking for an experience similar to when running in Designer where they can see which tools have been completed. At the very least, they would like the log to be reported live and not shown at the end of the run.
Currently, the run feels like a black box where they do not know how close it is to completion or which steps it has made it through.
We have tried to build workarounds like the Email tool, but have been unsuccessful. For example, the Email tool does not send an Email until the workflow completes which defeats the purpose. The closest workaround is writing our own log along the way that can be reported on which is not a clean solution.
HI All,
In the Gallery Page under My Workspace-->Share With Me we could see the fields like Name, Type, Owner, Shared Source, Uploaded, Manual Runs. Among these we are not able to sort the fields "Type" and "Owner" alphabetically, whereas we are able to sort the other fields Name, Shared Source, Uploaded, Manual Runs accordingly. Kindly refer the attached snapshot.
Regards,
Ariharan R
On far too many occasions I have been working on a workflow in designer with either the outputs disabled via the configuration or using containers (preventing file creation/updating during testing) and I would save them back up to server without remembering to re-enable these outputs, which causes lots of issues down the line when users are trying to access these processes.
A simple warning on loading to the gallery that there are disabled tools and what tool id they are would mitigate this issue.
Sometimes a schedule is enabled that we want to disable. We edit the schedule, click the button to disable the schedule, click "Save". Then refresh the page and it's enabled still. The schedule will not disable in some cases. In the cases where it does get disabled, clicking the "Save" button appears to have no action. There's no confirmation and the screen stays static. Two suggestions:
Special characters cannot be accommodated when searching usernames or workflows in the Gallery and Admin UI pages.
Hello Community!
I really enjoy the concept of the Data Connection Manager, but we have controls in place that don't allow our users to share database connections with each other - the official data source owner needs to approve. We have been able to do this with the typical Data Connections through Active Directory groups that we load into Gallery custom groups.
It would be nice to be able to allow users to create their own data connections to be shared but we would like to add a couple of governance features:
Perhaps a change in Designer too, but I want the output on the server and for workflows stored on the server.
There is an existing "tool" Auto Documentation to load a locally stored Alteryx flow and to provide a pdf file with an overview of the workflow, the used tools and their configuration. Example: input file is sales.xlsx, filter on month: January, sum of sales amount.
I would love a functionality that would output this together with the other output on the server for the flow that ran. This can then be used as a sort of proof in case of an audit on how we got to the numbers of the output.
We are getting an error saving flow to our private gallery with US Geocoder tool.
The error speak to "public" and not "private" gallery and we get the reasoning except that we should be able to save to our private gallery and deploys solutions internally that we built using these tools and data.
We are on 2020.4.6 on both the gallery and laptop.
Laptop is in Business Insights trial.
Servers all have Insights add-on
I found in the community a post where you can manually update the flow run settings but the user mistook that the flow did save even with error.
This allows the job to work but it is annoying that
I recommend modifying the User “Actions” options to include an “Allow Insights” option.
This can then be used in
Doing this simplifies and automates the process and significantly improves user experience when developing insights flows for use in the gallery.
A user/curator/artisan can schedule a workflow to run even if they do NOT have access to 1 of the database connections within the workflow. The Alteryx Gallery still allows the user to schedule it to run.However, the workflow will never run because the user does not have access to 1 of the database connections within the workflow. Ideally, the scheduler should validate that the user has access to all
needed connections within the scheduled workflow.
sometime the schedule workflow is too heavy and take few hours.
it impact the normal workflow run. as it take all workflow slot.
so my idea is to limit the schedule workflow and always leave space for manual workflow.
to avoid delay of both work.
I have inherited admin duties, and have been running to many problems. Some of which will escalate when the subscriptions go away.
The pages desperately need to be updated for a more streamlined admin experience.
Couple examples I came up with below.
Naming Convention
API Access
User Page
Collection Page
Designer "save" window.
Workflow Page
Hello,
In our environment, we decided to do not use the Data Connexion from the Gallery for internal security reason.
Then we use the internal Designer in the Server to create (IT Teams) all the BDD Connexions for our workflows (In Memory and In DB).
Our Curators (not in IT Teams) has only access to the Gallery and not directly to a Server but it's responsible of these conenxions.
I checked all the API and we cannot retrieve the list of our "In DB" Connexions.
Is possible to have a new API to list all these connexions or to have an update of the existing API /admin/v1/systemdataconnections ?
Thanks !
When it comes to cancelling a running/queued job though the Gallery admin portal it never fails to add some new jobs to the list right as I am about to click to cancel a job,
thus instead of removing the unnecessary queued job I actually cancel the job that has been running for the past hour creating the report I need for the meeting in 30 minutes
I think that adding check boxes (similar to the "Users" page) would be a nice UI enhancement to this page
Would like to see more flexible options for workflow run-as credential settings, both for when publishing the workflow and kicking off the job.
Here is a thread where we discuss the limitations we are seeing when trying to publish the workflow to Gallery via an API. We would also like to see more flexibility when our users want to kick off their workflows via an API where they could pass in different run-as credentials they would like the job to run as.
Hello,
My customer want to set a certification process for the workflow or application published on gallery, on the same model than Tableau has for datasource :
https://help.tableau.com/current/online/en-us/datasource_certified.htm
Best regards,
Simon
In the User record you can get the subscription ID, but it doesn't show the Subscription Name and doesn't provide a link to the subscription which would be helpful (and seems pretty simple to implement).
I know subscriptions are going away, but until they do please make working with what we have easier. Thanks!
There is a typo under the Help area for the Default Gallery Administrator (System Settings). It should be a backslash, not forward slash there. Correct is: domain\username
2021.4 Server comes with a ton of new great features.
The one that shouldn't be implemented is moving away from Alteryx initial intentions of being a place of data artisans, and turning the Gallery into a Spreadsheet.
A homepage should feel like home. It should have the flexibility to customize it for each Organization to move workflows, pictures, and notes around to guide the user to the application they need to run their workflow.
Most people using the HomePage Gallery aren't major developers, but new users or even non-analysts who want to run an app to get the report they need.
Please don't go backward by taking away flexibility, readability, and increasing difficulty to understand and get to an app.
But give more freedom to Alteryx Admins to customize and make the user experience even better.
Lean more into these ideas where we can showcase and feature apps and show descriptions of tools
Just like your homepage we should be able to show videos and use negative spacing to help guide users, and be able to scroll down the page
Instead, you took away all spaces and tried to turn everything into raw data. There were spaces and extra lines on the app, but it's all stripped away on the Gallery in 2021.4
Again, lean into your roots of canvases where each artisan can design and put tools and items that make sense to them and their Organization.
Please add features... don't take them away
Currently we can only configure questions and flow priority when using the POST API to queue workflows.
Would be good to be able be able send some of the Runtime configurations as well.
This would allow for much more flexibility.
Example
{
"questions":
[
{"name":"Test_dt","value":"1/1/2020"}
,{"name":"Test_Num","value":"53"}
,{"name":"Test_txt","value":"schedule test"}
]
, "priority": ""
"disable browse":"True" // When running flows in production this would reduce resource usage as data will no longer be cached. Having it as a parameters would mean that we can ensure that it is disabled
,"disable output":"False"
}
Current Fields
Possible other fields
Hello,
It would be beneficial to have integration between Alteryx and SIEM solutions, and send all Alteryx logs to the SIEM solution just like any other IT solution. The reason is to comply with the policies of customers, where InfoSec team must have centralized logging for all systems and hence a holistic view of the security posture for the infrastructure.
An Example of this would be seeing logs concerning change of user privileges' and system settings (on the SIEM).
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