Alteryx Designer Desktop Knowledge Base

This article covers how to use Run Command events to run a workflow.

This article discussed about the Alteryx Connectors deprecation, for initial set of connectors, and clarifies the questions around the Connectors deprecation.

Guide on configuring and capturing a Fiddler trace for Troubleshooting issues.

Engine logs are captures of your Results Window and so much more. They can be profoundly useful for troubleshooting, but you have to know how to enable them and how to use them.

When Email tool is setup with set up the OAuth authentication using Use Data Connection Manager (DCM), you receive an error.

When writing to Google BigQuery using the Google BigQuery Bulk data connection from the Data Connection Manager (DCM), you may encounter an error about GoogleCloudWriter having issues with retrieving the database name. This issue can be resolved by verifying the configuration in the DCM connection.

ERROR: "General error; 1033 error while parsing protocol" while connecting to SAP HANA DB using the Input Data Tool in Designer

How to Edit Environment Variables for Oracle Data Connection

SMTP settings of the most common email providers for configuration in the Email Tool and Email Events.

With the release of 2018.3 comes a very exciting new functionality – workflow caching! Caching can save a lot of time during workflow development by saving data at “checkpoints” in the workflow, so that each time you add a new step to your workflow, it does not need to rerun the workflow in its entirety, rather it can pick up from your last Cache point. There are a couple conditions where tools cannot be selected as cache points, including tools with multiple output anchors, and tools in "circles".

Where do you start when you see "An Unhandled Exception occurred"?

How to improve performance when reading from or writing to Snowflake.

Saving style changes in Fuzzy Match tool from Designer Admin version requires that the Designer is started in Administrator mode.

Here at Alteryx we believe in working smart, not hard. Building out reports to highlight business-critical metrics is a pretty smart way to track goals. Customizing those reports to everyone in the department, then distributing them as attachments to individual emails? That sounds like a lot of hard work. Scheduling those reports from a refreshing data source each month so you don’t have to remake or rerun the reports yourself - that’s genius. Logging into your work computer to open up Alteryx, then having to check the scheduled results before having any peace of mind those reports were delivered without a hitch? Hard.

When exporting a large amount of data from Databricks (over 500k rows), a result file download error is received.

The SharePoint connector allows you to use Service Principal for downloading and uploading files, but it requires the Sites.All permission, which gives the user access to all the Sites in the tenant. This article describes how to set it up.

The Run Command tool calling a batch file fails with an error if Windows robocopy command is used.

Error when choosing Options > Advanced Options > System Settings: Method not found: 'Void AlteryxGuiToolkit.Dialogs.Licensing.ManageLicenses.ShowLicensingDialog(System.Windows.Forms.Control, Boolean, Boolean)'

How to troubleshoot a blank "Product Downloads" section or versions not listed on the Downloads & Licenses page

When trying to connect to a snowflake database, I am getting the error CURLerror (curl_easy_perform() failed) - code = 6 msg = 'Couldn't resolve host name'.

On setting up a SYSTEM connection on the designer, the connection is added as a user connection. The connection is saved to the UserAlias.xml file and not the SystemAlias.xml file.