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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
Currently we can create static pages on the gallery from the Admin view using the Pages tab. I haven't been able to add in custom HTML code and would like to have such a page dynamically updated from the output of an Alteryx workflow Render tool (or similar). Ideally it would allow as much functionality as possible so that arbitrary HTML features could be implemented. Partly suggested by a prior idea: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Server-Ideas/Embed-webpages-in-Gallery-Pages/idi-p/8963
The page title never changes from Gallery when navigating through it. This is quite frustrating if you are trying to go back to a specific page or searching for something on the browse history.
Experts -
I think the user experience in the "Workflow Results" area could be vastly improved with a simple tweak: rather than having 1 record per job we could have 1 record per workflow, with the ability to then expand each workflow to see all associated jobs, and then expand each job to see all the associated messages.
Even better: add the ability to toggle sorting by job or workflow!
Most of the time I need to find a particular job (and we may run each workflow a lot during testing) so seeing a long list of workflows with the same name is sort of clunky, and then having to go page by page looking for the job in question makes it even clunkier.
Thanks for the consideration!
I think it would make sense to let user have more flexibility when they want to schedule.
For instance, we should be able to set a schedule every 2 hours for a certain time range on certain days. EG : Every 2 hours from 8am to 6pm from Monday to Friday.
Right now, this is not possible.
Hi folks
There are quite a few very useful Alteryx items I have been using recently that I have found on the help pages / public gallery. However, when I searched for them, I didn't quite use the correct search terms so this took longer than I had hoped and I was on a tight deadline. An example is the "Server Pre-Upgrade Checks" workflow used during Server upgrades.
My idea is to put these utilities in the Download portal in the same way that the Server Usage Report is.
Of course, there should be a limit as to what goes in there but, like the Server Usage Report can be done on a case-by-case basis.
Cheer, jonna
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"
}
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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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