Workspace Settings Page
Use workspaces to share data and workflows with other users on the same workspace. Customize the settings on this page for the user experience in your workspace. When you modify a setting, the change immediately applies to the workspace. To access the Workspace Settings page, select Profile Menu > Admin Console > Settings.
Note
Some of these settings do not pertain to the current release of Alteryx Analytics Cloud. Modifying such settings has no effect on the platform.
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Users may not experience the changed environment until each user refreshes the application page or logs out and in again.
Enablement Options:
Note
Any values specified in the Workspace Settings page apply exclusively to the specific workspace and override any system-level defaults.
Option | Description |
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Default | The default value is applied. This value may be inherited from the higher-level configuration. Tip You can review the default value as part of the help text. |
Enabled | The setting is enabled. Note If the setting applies to a feature, the feature is enabled. Additional configuration may be required. See below. |
Disabled | The setting is disabled. |
Edit | Click Edit to enter a specific value for the setting. |
Applications
Designer Cloud Settings
Choose the experience that is available to users in this workspace. You can choose both.
Tip
This option may not be available in your workspace. For more information, please contact Alteryx Support.
Option | Description |
|---|---|
Trifacta Classic Only | Workspace users can work with their data and assets through the Trifacta interface. Tip The primary container of development is the flow. |
Designer Experience Only | Workspace users can work with their data and assets through the Designer Cloud interface. Tip The primary container of development is the workflow. |
Both Designer and Classic Experiences | Workspace users can choose their preferred experience. Tip Users can switch between experiences through the left-hand app switcher. See App Switcher. Note Flows and related assets do not appear in the New Experience. Workflows and related assets do not appear in the Classic Experience. |
General Settings
Filter Job History
Set the default number of days of jobs that are displayed in the Job History page. Default value is 180 days.
Tip
You can filter the dates of the jobs displayed in the Job History page.
For more information, see Job History Page.
Folder sharing
Note
Sharing of folders has been disabled due to a known issue. You can still share flows. This message will be removed when the issue is fixed.
When enabled, workspace users can share folders. When folders are shared, all flows within the folder are also shared.
Note
Flow sharing must also be enabled.
Locale
Set the locale to use for inferring or validating data in the application, such as numeric values or dates. The default is United States.
Note
After saving changes to your locale, refresh your page. Subsequent executions of the data inference service use the new locale settings.
For more information, see Locale Settings.
Session duration
Specify the length of time in minutes before a session expires. Default is 30 (30 minutes).
Storage directories
Allow members of the workspace to change paths to their upload and output results locations through their user profile.
For more information, see Storage Page.
Trifacta File Storage
Allow workspace members to access Alteryx Data Storage (ADS), a storage service managed by Alteryx for uploading datasets and generating results. For more information, see Using ADS.
User messaging
When enabled, workspace users can explore content through the Cloud Portal .
API
API Access Token
When accessing the REST APIs, you can optionally use a token for simpler use and enhanced security.
Note
This feature may not be available in all environments.
For more information, see Access Tokens Page.
Allow users to generate access tokens
When enabled, individual workspace users can generate their own personal access tokens, which enable access to REST APIs. For more information, see Manage API Access Tokens.
Maximum lifetime for user-generated access tokens (days)
Defines the maximum number of days that a user-generated access token is permitted for use in the product.
Tip
To permit generation of access tokens that never expire, set this value to -1.
For more information, see Manage API Access Tokens.
Connectivity
Custom SQL query
When enabled, users can create custom SQL queries to import datasets from relational tables.
Enable S3 connectivity
When enabled, base connectivity to S3 is enabled for workspace users.
Note
Additional configuration may be required. See Configure Storage Environment.
Enable conversion of standard JSON files via conversion service
When enabled, the Cloud Portal utilizes the conversion service to ingest JSON files and convert them to a tabular format that is easier to import into the application.
Note
This feature is enabled by default but can be disabled as needed. The conversion process performs cleanup and re-organization of the ingested data for display in tabular format.
When disabled, the Cloud Portal uses the old version of JSON import, which does not restructure the data and may require additional recipe steps to manually structure it into a tabular format.
Note
The legacy version of JSON import is required if you are working with compressed JSON files or only Newline JSON files.
Note
Although imported datasets and recipes created under v1 of the JSON importer continue to work without interruption, the v1 version is likely to be deprecated in a future release. You should switch your old imported datasets and recipes to using the new version. Instructions to migrate are provided at the link below.
Max endpoints per JDBC REST connection
For a REST API connection to a JDBC source, this parameter defines the maximum number of endpoints that can be defined to use the connection.
Avoid modifying this value unless you are experiencing timeouts or failures to connect.
Flows, workflows, recipes and plans
Cloud Workflow Sharing
When enabled, allows users to share Designer Experience workflows with each other. Disabled by default.
Collaborative Suggestion
You can enable the inclusion of suggestion cards generated from the recent use of the Cloud Portal. As the application gathers more information about how you or members of your workspace apply transformations to your data, the suggestions become more meaningful for the data you are processing.
Note
No data is shared with Alteryx or any system outside of the Alteryx Analytics Cloud.
These collaborative suggestion cards can be generated from individual usage or from workspace-level usage. These suggestions appear under the Recently Used heading in the side panel. When this feature is enabled, individual users can choose to opt out of sharing their usage data with this feature. See User Profile Page.
Option | Description |
|---|---|
disabled | Collaborative suggestions are not surfaced in the application. |
personal | Collaborative suggestions are based on the individual user's previous transformations. |
workspace | Collaborative suggestions are based on the transformations from all users in the workspace. |
Default | The default setting for the workspace is applied. |
Column from Examples
When enabled, users can access a tool through the column menus that enables creation of new columns based on example mappings from the selected column.
Dataset Sharing
When enabled, workspace users are permitted to share their datasets with other users. For more information, see Share Datasets.
Desktop Workflow Sharing
When enabled, allows users to share Designer Desktop workflows with each other. Disabled by default.
Editor Scheduling
When enabled, flow editors are also permitted to create and edit schedules.
Note
The Scheduling feature may need to be enabled in your environment. When enabled, flow owners can always create and edit schedules.
When this feature is enabled, plan collaborators are also permitted to create and edit schedules. For more information, see Plan View Page.
Export
When enabled, workspace users are permitted to export their flows and plans. Exported flows can be imported into other workspaces or product editions.
Note
If plans are been enabled in your workspace, enabling this flag applies to flows and plans.
Flow sharing
When enabled, workspace users can share flows and plans.
Import
When enabled, workspace users are permitted to import exported flows and plans.
Note
If plans have been enabled in your workspace, enabling this flag applies to flows and plans.
Maximum number of files to read in a directory for the initial sample
When the Cloud Portal is generating an initial sample of data for your dataset from a set of source files, you can define the maximum number of files in a directory from which the sample is generated. This limit is applied to reduce the overhead of reading in a new file, which improves performance in the Transformer page.
Tip
The initial sample type for files is generated by reading one file after another from the source. If the source is multiple files or a directory, this limit caps the maximum number of files that can be scanned for sampling purposes.
Note
If the files in the directory are small, the initial sample may contain the maximum number of files and less than the maximum size permitted for a sample. You may see fewer rows than expected.
If the generated sample is unsatisfactory, you can generate a new sample using a different method. In that case, this limit no longer applies.
Plan feature
When enabled, users can create plans to execute sequences of recipes across one or more flows. For more information, see Plans Page.
Sample downloads
When enabled, members can download the contents of the Transformer page at any time. For an individual step, a member can download the current sample, as modified by the current recipe up to the point of the current step.
Schematized output
When enabled, all output columns for all types of outputs are typecast to their annotated types. This feature is enabled by default.
For non-schematized outputs, the Alteryx Analytics Cloud enforces casting of all values to the annotated data type of the column by default. For example, if the output value is -3.4 and the data type for the output column is Integer, the platform enforces Integer type casting and writes a null value instead.
true: All output values must match the data type of the output columns, or a null value is written.false: All output values are written in their output form, regardless of the column's data type.
UI for range join
When enabled, workspace users can specify join key matching across a range of values.
Webhooks
When enabled, webhook notification tasks can be configured on a per-flow basis in the Flow View page. Webhook notifications allow you to deliver messages to third-party applications based on the success or failure of your job executions.
Job execution
Combine Spark Transform and Profile jobs into one.
When enabled, the transform and profiling tasks of a job executed on the Spark running environment are combined. The profiling task is executed as a part of the transform task, which eliminates any time spent orchestrating the profiling task and accessing the profiler input file on storage.
Note
When these two tasks are combined, publishing actions are not undertaken if the profiling task fails.
In the Job Details page, combined jobs appear in a Transform with profile card. See Job Details Page.
Custom Spark Options Feature
When enabled, users can override Spark configuration options for output objects before running Spark jobs.
Tip
When enabled, a default set of Spark configuration options is available for users. Additional properties can be specified through the Spark Whitelist Properties setting.
Ignore publishing warnings for running jobs
When enabled, a user may execute a job if the previously saved location is not available for the current IAM permissions used to run the job. Default is Enabled .
Tip
Setting this value to Enabled is helpful for resolving changes in IAM permissions.
When disabled, the Run Job button is disabled if the previously saved location is not available through IAM permissions.
Tip
Setting this value to Disabled prevents execution of jobs that are going to fail at publication time, which can be expensive in terms of time and compute costs.
Logical and physical optimization of jobs
When enabled, the Cloud Portal attempts to optimize job execution through logical optimizations of your recipe and physical optimizations of your recipes interactions with data.
This workspace setting can be overridden for individual flows.
SQL Scripts
When enabled, users may define SQL scripts to execute as part of a job's run. Scripts can be executed before data ingestion, after output publication, or both through any write-supported relational connection to which the user has access.
Schema validation feature
When enabled, by default the structure and ordering of columns in your import datasets are checked for changes before data is ingested for job execution.
Tip
Schema validation can be overridden for individual jobs when the schema validation option is enabled in the job settings. See below.
Errors are immediately reported in the Job Details page. See Job Details Page.
Schema validation option in job settings
When the schema validation feature and this setting are enabled, users can make choices on how individual jobs are managed when schema changes are detected. This setting is enabled by default.
Schema validation option to fail job
When schema validation is enabled, this setting specifies the default behavior when schema changes are found.
When enabled, jobs are failed when schema changes are found, and error messages are surfaced in the Cloud Portal.
When disabled, jobs are permitted to continue.
Jobs may ultimately fail due to schema changes.
Jobs may result in bad data being written in outputs.
Job failures may be more challenging to debug.
Tip
Setting this value to
Disabledmatches the behavior of the Cloud Portal from before schema validation was possible.
Tip
This setting can be overridden for individual jobs, even if it is disabled.
Errors are immediately reported in the Job Details page. See Job Details Page.
Skip write settings validation
When enabled, write settings objects are not validated as part of job execution. Write settings are used to define the outputs for file-based results. Default is enabled.
Note
When this feature is enabled, no validations are performed of any write settings objects for scheduled and API-based jobs. Issues with these objects may cause failures during the transformation and publishing stages of job execution.
Tip
Before running a job via schedule or API that produces file-based outputs, you should do a test manual execution of the job to verify the outputs.
Spark Engine
Select spark the Spark engine to run workflows. The default option is EMR Spark. To enable Databricks as the Spark engine, you must first set up a connection to Databricks. Go to Databricks Admin Page to set up your Databricks connection.
Trifacta Photon execution
When enabled, users can choose to execute their jobs on Trifacta Photon, a proprietary running environment built for the execution of small- to medium-sized jobs in memory on the Trifacta node.
Tip
When enabled, you can select to run jobs on Photon through the Run Job page. The default running environment is the one that is best for the size of your job.
When Trifacta Photon is disabled:
You cannot run jobs on the local running environment. All jobs must be executed on a clustered running environment.
Trifacta Photon is used for Quick Scan sampling jobs. If Trifacta Photon is disabled, the Cloud Portal attempts to run the Quick Scan job on another available running environment. If that job fails or no suitable running environment is available, the Quick Scan sampling job fails.
Publishing
Avro output format
When enabled, members can generate outputs in Avro format.
CSV output format
When enabled, members can generate outputs in CSV format.
Default storage environment
Choose the default storage environment for your workspace:
S3: Your enterprise S3 environment. Additional configuration is required.ADS: A storage service managed by Alteryx. For more information, see Using ADS.
Hyper output format
When enabled, members can generate outputs in Hyper format for publication and use on Tableau Server.
JSON output format
When enabled, members can generate outputs in JSON format.
Parquet output format
When enabled, members can generate outputs in Parquet format.
Notifications
Email notification feature
When enabled, the Alteryx Analytics Cloud can send email notifications to users based on the success or failure of jobs. By default, this feature is Enabled.
Email notification trigger when flow jobs fail
When email notifications are enabled, you can configure the default setting for the types of failed jobs that generate an email to interested stakeholders. The value set here is the default value for each flow in the workspace.
Settings:
Setting | Description |
|---|---|
Default (any jobs) | By default, email notifications are sent on failure of any job. |
Never send | Email notifications are never sent for job failures. |
Scheduled jobs | Notifications are sent only when scheduled jobs fail. |
Manual jobs | Notifications are sent only when ad-hoc (manually executed) jobs fail. |
Any | Notifications are sent for all job failures. |
Individual users can opt out of receiving notifications or configure a different email address. See Email Notifications Page.
Emailed stakeholders are configured by individual flow.
Email notification trigger when flow jobs succeed
When email notifications are enabled, you can configure the default setting for the types of successful jobs that generate an email to interested stakeholders. The value set here is the default value for each flow in the workspace.
For more information on the settings, see the previous section. Default setting is Default (any jobs).
Individual users can opt out of receiving notifications or configure a different email address. See Email Notifications Page.
Emailed stakeholders are configured by individual flow.
Email notification trigger when plans run
You can configure the default trigger for email notifications when a plan runs. Default setting is Default (all runs).
Setting | Description |
|---|---|
Default (all runs) | By default, email notifications are sent to users for all plan runs. |
All runs | Emails are sent for all runs. |
Failed runs | Emails are sent for failed runs only. |
Success runs | Emails are sent for successful runs only. |
Sharing email notifications
When email notifications are enabled, users automatically receive notifications whenever an owner shares the plan or flow with the user.
Individual users can opt out of receiving notifications. For more information, see Preferences Page.
Experimental features
These experimental features are not supported.
Warning
Experimental features are in active development. Their functionality may change from release to release, and they may be removed from the product at any time. Do not use experimental features in a production environment.
These settings may or may not change application behavior.
Cache data in the Transformer intelligently
Note
NOTE: This feature is in Beta release.
When enabled, this feature allows the Cloud Portal to cache data from the Transformer page periodically based on Trifacta Photon execution time. This feature enables users to move faster between recipe steps.
Default language
Select the default language to use in the Cloud Portal.
Edit recipes without loading sample
When enabled, you can perform edits in the Transformer page without loading a sample in the data grid.
Tip
This feature can be helpful when you know the edits that need to be performed and do not need sample data to perform the corrections. You can also use it to switch the active sample without loading.
In Flow View, select Edit recipe without datagrid from the context menu on the right side when the recipe is selected.
Enable detect auto encoding
Autodetect the file encoding when a user uploads a CSV file. Enabled by default.
Enable/Disable data grid from view options
When enabled, you can enable or disable live previewing in the data grid of the Transformer page. Disabling can improve performance. These options are available in the Show/hide data grid options drop-down in the status bar at the bottom of the Transformer page:
Edit with data grid
When the data grid is disabled, you may not be able to edit some recipe steps. For steps that you can edit, select Preview to see the effects of the step on the data. When you select Preview, the data grid is re-enabled.
Show column histogram
When the data grid is enabled, you can choose to disable the column histograms in the data grid, which can improve performance.
Execution time threshold (in milliseconds) to control caching in the Transformer
Note
NOTE: This feature is in Beta release.
When intelligent caching in the Transformer is enabled, you can set the threshold time in milliseconds for when Trifacta Photon updates the cache. At each threshold of execution time in Trifacta Photon, the output of the intermediate recipe (CDF) steps are cached in-memory, which speeds up movements between recipe steps in the Cloud Portal.
Language localization
When enabled, the Cloud Portal is permitted to display text in the selected language.
Show user language preference
When enabled, individual users can select a preferred language in which to display text in the Cloud Portal.
Note
This experimental feature requires installation of a language resource file on the Trifacta node. For this release, only U.S. English (default) and Korean are supported. For more information, please contact Alteryx Support.
Users can make personal language selections through their preferences. See Account Settings Page.