I want to encourage all of you to review posts in the Idea section of the community, in particular I seek support for this idea. Please review and add your star, which is a vote for, and add comments if you have any to expand or elaborate on the issue.
This is how Alteryx grows, evolves and improves to our benefit.
The issue is that some tools like unions, cross-tabs and others will lose meta-data if you click on them first thing on open of the flow causing frustration in having to run the flow to force meta-data generation then re-configure the settings. additionally often changes to tools before these tools will have the same affect as auto-refresh hits those and first clears the existing meta-data and since it has no data in the stream to evaluate it does not rebuild the meta data.
I am seeking Alteryx to enhance these tools to not clear the meta-data that is there except when a flow is executed and has data in the stream to evaluate.
see link
https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Product-Ideas/Allow-Last-Run-metadata-to-persist/idi-p/7321...
