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Alteryx - Tableau hyper file lock

When scheduled or manual Alteryx workflows try to overwrite or append the Tableau hyper extract file, it fails(File is locked by another process). This is because a Tableau workbook is using the hyper extract file. We know the behavior is expected as the file is opened by another user/process so Alteryx won't be able to modify it until the file is closed. Alteryx product team should consider this and implement it in the future to solve many problems. 

2 Comments
patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Yes! I have switched to outputting to csv's to avoid this issue. 

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