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Cloud Quests
Elevate your workflow skills by solving real-world challenges using the Alteryx Analytics Cloud Platform.
I chose to explore the differences between Standard and Cloud Native modes with this challenge. Here's what I found:
Standard:
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- Needs a strong internet connection (this 100% could be a just me problem, but I had a hell-of-a time getting the input to work, lots of CTRL+SHIFT+R, deleting the input and reconnecting, etc. which is why I rebuilt this in Cloud Native to begin with)
- Recognized all the fields as string even though it wasn't coming from a csv (which could be a me problem again, though somewhat supported by Alteryx documentation)
- Able to properly handle newline concatenations (\n)
- Recognized all the fields as string even though it wasn't coming from a csv (which could be a me problem again, though somewhat supported by Alteryx documentation)
- Able to properly handle newline concatenations (\n)
Cloud Native:
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- Input worked way smoother, no refreshing the browser multiple times required
- Recognized the data types better
- Doesn't support concatenating with newlines (\n). Even though it looks right in the configuration window, the export skips over it as if there isn't a character there at all, or treats it as a literal string "\n". I tried this multiple ways with Summarize and Crosstab. I tried regex replace afterwards to replace "\n" with a real new line, and no dice. ToChar(10) isn't supported in Cloud Native (as of today, 2025-07-26), which makes me think maybe new lines aren't supported either. I couldn't validate this in the Alteryx documentation (maybe I missed it) but since the original JSON start file was for standard mode, I suspect it is because new lines aren't an option (yet - hopefully). Again, this is just my conclusion from playing around - maybe I'm wrong? If so, please please let me know how to make new lines work in Cloud Native!
- Recognized the data types better
- Doesn't support concatenating with newlines (\n). Even though it looks right in the configuration window, the export skips over it as if there isn't a character there at all, or treats it as a literal string "\n". I tried this multiple ways with Summarize and Crosstab. I tried regex replace afterwards to replace "\n" with a real new line, and no dice. ToChar(10) isn't supported in Cloud Native (as of today, 2025-07-26), which makes me think maybe new lines aren't supported either. I couldn't validate this in the Alteryx documentation (maybe I missed it) but since the original JSON start file was for standard mode, I suspect it is because new lines aren't an option (yet - hopefully). Again, this is just my conclusion from playing around - maybe I'm wrong? If so, please please let me know how to make new lines work in Cloud Native!
My previous post (above) didn't count towards completion. Maybe I was getting too deep in the weeds. Trying this again with just the standard version....fingers crossed!
