The Product Idea boards have gotten an update to better integrate them within our Product team's idea cycle! However this update does have a few unique behaviors, if you have any questions about them check out our FAQ.
In some cases, the information about incoming columns to tools are (temporarily) forgotten, e.g. if Autoconfig is switched off, if the incoming connection is temporarily missing, or if column names are generated dynamically and the workflow has not been executed, yet. Many tools deal with that situation well, e.g. Selection, Formula, or Summarize. In these cases, the tools tell the user that they cannot find incoming columns, but they preserve the configuration so that the user still can (at least partially) work on these tools and important information on the configuration is not lost: Example Select Tool First step: Connections present, configuration typed in: Second step: Connection cut, confguration opened. The configuration looks screwed up but implicitly contains all settings: Third step: Connection re-connected. The configuration is as before: Other tools behave the opposite, for example Unique or Macro Input (an for sure many other tools). If the incoming columns are currently unknown to the Designer and you click once on the symbol, the entire configuration of this tool is lost. You might try to get the configuration back by pressing undo. This, in most cases does not work. Or, even worse, you find out what happened later when it's too late for undo. In this case, you either have an old version of that workflow to look up the configuration or you have to re-develop it. In any case, this is unnecessary and time-consuming software behaviour. Example Unique Tool Step 1: Connections present, configuration typed in: Step 2: Connection cut, confguration opened. The configuration is empty: Step 3: Connection re-connected: The entire configuration is permanently lost: I wasn't sure whether I should report this as a bug or a feature enhancement. It is somehow in between. Two aspects tell me that this should be changed: Inconsistent behaviour of different tools for now reason, Easy loss of programming work, resulting in time-consuming bug fixing. Please make sure that all tools preserve their configuration also if information on incoming columns is temporarily lost.
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Commas save lives! With large numbers, it's difficult to see what number was actually entered without commas present, and the wrong number can easily be entered as a result:
Is this number
100,000
1,000,000
10,000,000
It's hard to say without taking a really close look!
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Can we set our own Comment tool default preferences? - For me I want to set the text alignment to be "Center" by default, currently it's always "TopCenter" when I open it.
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I am facing an issue regarding the result window. The tabbed document function is disable for the result window. I did not see the entire result window. Kindly find the below mentioned screenshot for your reference. Request to reverse the feature.
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After multiple years of using Alteryx, The tabbed document feature was left out of 2022.1. This feature allows for a much cleaner canvas for exploring workflow and output data. I view this feature as a basic function of Alteryx, I was surprised to find out that the development team intentionally omitted this function. I really don't want to revert back to older versions but it may be only the way to have a more comfortable feel of Alteryx.
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