HTML GUI SDK: Show options only if incoming connection is present

[chrisha]

Hey dev community,

I'm currently working on a tool using the Python and HTML GUI SDK. The tool has an optional input. And depending on whether there is an incoming connection or not, I want the tool UI to show additional settings. To achieve this, I have the following in my Gui.html:

Alteryx.Gui.BeforeLoad = (manager, AlteryxDataItems, json) => {
    // Display incoming settings only if there is data incoming
    var hasIncomingStream = manager.getIncomingFields().length > 0
    window.document.getElementById("incoming-settings").hidden = !hasIncomingStream
    manager.getDataItem("IncomingField").setDisabled(!hasIncomingStream)
}

It works well and as intended: When I connect an incoming stream, the element with #incoming-settings is shown and hidden otherwise.

There is one instance, though, when the above does not work: When having an incoming connection present (see screenshot), but just having loaded the workflow. In this case, metadata is not yet available and the GUI does not show the #incoming-settings:

When I run

window.Alteryx.Gui.Manager.getIncomingFields()

in Devtools, I see that the Array has one item, but it seems not to be present when BeforeLoad(...) is called:

 Is this a known bug? Or is there a more reliable way to check for the presence of an incoming connection?

Best

Christopher

[John_Rutter]

I have a similar use-case, where I want to display parts of the UI when there are incoming connections, but when there are not, they are not needed.  I can neither find something that can accurately determine whether there are incoming connections nor can I find one to determine if the config routines have been run.