Saving Alteryx Designer Usage Statistics / User Data

[CiaranA]

Hi Alteryx Community,

I'm trying to track Alteryx Designer & Alteryx Server usage statistics across my organisation.

I can track licences / seats used via the licences.alteryx.com portal which is somewhat useful but only picks up people who've obtained the licence key through me. More important for me is usage counts, statistics, and workflows of all Alteryx Designers within organisation.

I tried to follow the below steps but got confused as to what this actually required me to do - Changing the runtimesettings.xml on each designer C: Drive?

https://help.alteryx.com/server/current/admin/Configuration/SaveDesignerUsageData.htm

[Link86]

Can the edit of the runtime settlings be done for a silent install? I didn't see that answered above when it was asked and reported.

[CiaranA]

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@Link86 wrote:

Can the edit of the runtime settlings be done for a silent install? I didn't see that answered above when it was asked and reported.

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Yes you can still use this method when creating a an application package for your organisation to silently install as admin to users. 

As described you need to do the below, we lay down the customised RuntimeSettings.xml via scripts as part of the install. 

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To answer your initial question you will need to change the RuntimeSettings.xml from C:\ProgramData\Alteryx folder for each Designer Installation.

For instance, this is what I have on my local environment:

    <Designer>

        <PhoneHomeUrl>http://localhost/gallery</PhoneHomeUrl>

    </Designer>