Earlier Releases of Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta
This section contains an archive of release notes for previous releases of Designer Cloud.
For the latest release notes, see Release Notes for Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta.
March 10, 2022
Release 9.1
What's New
Connectivity:
Enable connectivity between the Trifacta Application and your cloud databases using SSH tunneling is generally available with this release.
Tip
This feature is now generally available.
Note
For this release, SSH tunneling can be enabled on the following connection types: Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server.
For more information, see Configure SSH Tunnel Connectivity.
Connectivity:
Early Preview (read-only) connections available with this release:
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
Instagram Ads
For more information, see Early Preview Connection Types.
Job execution:
The Trifacta Application can check for changes to your dataset's schemas before jobs are executed and optionally halt job execution to prevent data corruption. These options can be configured by a workspace administrator. For more information, seeWorkspace Settings Page.
Tip
Schema validation can be overridden for individual jobs. For more information, see Run Job Page.
For more information, see Overview of Schema Management.
Dataset configuration:
For an imported dataset, you can configure settings through a new interface, including column names and column data types to use in the Trifacta Application.
Note
This experimental feature is intended for demonstration purposes only. This feature may be modified or removed from the Alteryx Analytics Cloud without warning in a future release. It should not be deployed in a production environment.
Note
This feature is part of a larger effort to improve how data is imported into the Trifacta Application. This feature must be enabled by a workspace administrator.
Sample Job IDs:
When a sample is collected, a job ID is generated and displayed in the Trifacta Application. These job IDs enable you to identify the sample jobs.
For more information, see Generate a Sample.
For more information, see Samples Panel.
For more information, see Sample Jobs Page.
Import:
For long-loading Parquet datasets, you can monitor the ingest process as you continue your work.
Note
NOTE: This feature is in Beta release.
For more information, see Flow View Page.
Changes in System Behavior
Snowflake execution:
Support for splitting columns on multiple delimiters during Snowflake pushdown execution. See Snowflake Running Environment.
Performance:
A recent release introduced improved performance through intelligent caching of recipe steps.
This feature was released as a Beta feature.
Due to some recently discovered issues, this feature has been disabled for the time being. It cannot be enabled by a workspace administrator at this time.
Note
If this Beta feature had been enabled in your environment, you may experience a reduction in performance when moving between recipe steps in the Transformer page.
The feature will be re-enabled in a future release.
Connectivity:
The Google Analytics connection type now supports the
UniversalAnalytics
schema.Note
Previously, this schema was called
GoogleAnalytics
by the driver vendor. You may need to update your custom SQL queries to reference this new schema name.
Deprecated
None.
Key Bug Fixes
None.
New Known Issues
Ticket | Description |
---|---|
TD-69279 | Test Connection button fails a Tip Select/deselect the Enable SSH Tunneling checkbox, and then click Test Connection. |
January 31, 2022
Release 9.0
What's New
Snowflake Running Environment:
For flows whose datastources and outputs are hosted in Snowflake, you can now push down execution of transformation jobs to Snowflake for much faster execution. For more information, see Snowflake Running Environment.
Dataset Schema Refresh:
You can now refresh your imported datasets with the current schema information from the source file or table. Schema refresh enables you to capture any changes to the columns in your dataset.
For more information, see Overview of Schema Management.
Dataset schemas can be refreshed through the following pages:
See Dataset Details Page.
In Flow View. For more information, see View for Imported Datasets.
Connectivity:
Build connections to accessible REST API endpoints.
Warning
This feature is disabled by default. For more information about enabling REST API connectivity in your environment, please contact Alteryx Support.
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
For more information, see REST API Connections.
Connectivity:
Early Preview (read-only) connections available with this release:
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
LinkedIn Ads
Zendesk
For more information, see Early Preview Connection Types.
Changes in System Behavior
New configuration task for S3 connections
When you create a new workspace, the process by which you connect your workspace to S3 has improved.
Tip
Future releases will include additional improvements in connecting to AWS and S3 resources.
For more information, see Changes to Configuration.
Deprecated
None.
Key Bug Fixes
Ticket | Description |
---|---|
TD-68162 | Flow parameters cannot be displayed or edited in the Transformer page and cannot embedded in recipe steps. |
New Known Issues
None.
January 10, 2022
Release 8.11
What's New
Connectivity:
Early Preview (read-only) connections available with this release:
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
Asana
Exact Online
Facebook Ads
Jira by Atlassian
Pinterest
QuickBooks Online
Trino
For more information, see Early Preview Connection Types.
Performance:
Improved performance during design time through intelligent caching of recipe steps.
Note
NOTE: This feature is in Beta release.
A workspace administrator may need to enable this feature in your workspace. SeeWorkspace Settings Page.
Improvements in job execution performance, due to skipping some output validation steps for file-based outputs.
Note
When scheduled or API jobs are executed, no validations are performed of any writesettings objects. Issues with these objects may cause failures during transformation or publishing stages of job execution.
A workspace administrator may need to enable this feature in your workspace. See Workspace Settings Page.
Changes in System Behavior
Sample sizes can be increased up to 40MB
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
Prior to this release, the size of a sample was capped at 10MB. This size represented:
the actual size of the sample object stored in the base storage layer
the default maximum size of the sample displayed in the Trifacta Application. This sample size can be reduced from 10MB, if needed.
Beginning in this release:
The actual size of the stored sample has increased to 40MB.
Note
On backend storage, sample sizes are now four times larger than in previous releases. For datasources that require decompression or conversion, actual storage sizes may exceed this 40 MB limit.
The size of the sample displayed for a recipe can be configured to be up to 40MB in size by individual users.
For more information, see Change Recipe Sample Size.
Data type mismatches can now be written out in CSV format
Beginning in this release, for CSV outputs mismatched values are written as regular values by default. In prior releases, mismatched values were written as null values in CSV outputs.
Deprecated
None.
Key Bug Fixes
None.
New Known Issues
Ticket | Description |
---|---|
TD-68162 | Flow parameters cannot be displayed or edited in the Transformer page and cannot embedded in recipe steps. Tip To edit your flow parameters, select Parameters from the Flow View context menu. Note There is no current workaround for embedding in recipe steps. While your existing parameters should continue to work at execution time, avoid changing names of your flow parameters or editing recipe steps in which they are referenced. New flow parameters cannot be used in recipes at this time. |
November 22, 2021
Release 8.10
What's New
Connectivity:
Enable connectivity between the Trifacta Application and your cloud databases using SSH tunneling.
Note
SSH tunneling is enabled on a per-connection basis. For this release, SSH tunneling can be enabled on the following connection types: Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server.
For more information, see Configure SSH Tunnel Connectivity.
Early Preview (read-only) connections available with this release:
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
SurveyMonkey
Xero
For more information, see Early Preview Connection Types.
Session Management:
You can view the current and recent sessions for your account in the Trifacta Application. As needed, you can revoke any unfamiliar devices or sessions. For more information, see Sessions Page.
Download vCPU usage:
You can download a detailed report of your vCPU usage in CSV format.
For more information, see Plan Usage Page.
Changes in System Behavior
Ingestion:
Maximum permitted record length has been increased from 1 MB to 20 MB. For more information, see Working with JSON v2.
Publishing:
Improvements to publishing of Alteryx Date values to Snowflake. For more information, see Improvements to the Type System.
Split transformation:
When splitting a column based on positions, the positions no longer need to be listed in numeric order. See Changes to the Language.
Deprecated
None.
Key Bug Fixes
None.
New Known Issues
Ticket | Description |
---|---|
TD-66185 | Flatten transformation cannot handle multi-character delimiters. Tip When a column of arrays is flattened using the Trifacta Photon running environment, multi-character String delimiters are not supported. As a workaround, you can create a regular expression delimiter, as in the following, which uses either left bracket or right bracket as the delimiter: /[|]/ |
October 26, 2021
Release 8.9
What's New
Plans:
Create plan tasks to delete files and folders from file-based backend storage.
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
For more information, see Create Delete Task.
You can now reference output metadata from within your plans. See Plan Metadata References.
Collaboration:
You can view the list of collaborators and their corresponding avatars on shareable objects, such as Flows, Plans, and Connections pages.
For more information, see Flows Page.
For more information, see Connections Page.
For more information, see Plans Page.
Connectivity:
Early Preview (read-only) connections available with this release:
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
Google Ads
Presto
Microsoft Advertising
For more information, see Early Preview Connection Types.
Sampling:
Adjust the size of samples loaded in the browser for your current recipe to improve performance and address low-memory conditions. See Change Recipe Sample Size.
Changes in System Behavior
None.
Deprecated
None.
Key Bug Fixes
Ticket | Description |
---|---|
TD-65502 | Datasets from parameters are improperly being permitted to be referenced in recipes and returns an error during job execution. |
New Known Issues
None.
September 27, 2021
Release 8.8
What's New
Subscribe and upgrade plans via credit card:
Through the Admin console, you can now view and manage your plan, including change the plan, billing information, and the number of licensed users. You can also upgrade, downgrade, or cancel your subscription. For more information, see Plan and Billing Page.
vCPU consumption:
Administrators can now view the total workspace consumption in vCPU hours. For more information, see Plan Usage Page.
Flow View:
Updated context panel for output objects. For more information, see View for Outputs.
Changes in System Behavior
Import:
Improvements have been made in how double quotes are handled in CSV files during import to align Designer Cloud with other systems that support CSV import.
Example values in source CSV file:
"""My product""",In stock,"16,000",0.05
Note that the value
16,000
must be double-quoted, since the value contains a comma, which is the field delimiter.Previously, this value appeared in the Transformer page in columns as the following:
c1
c2
c3
c4
"""My product"""
In stock
"16,000"
0.05
As of this version, the Trifacta Application handles the values in a better manner when displaying them in the Transformer page:
c1
c2
c3
c4
"My product"
In stock
16,000
0.05
c1: Escaped values (tripe double-quotes) in the source no longer render in the application as triple double-quotes and are represented as quoted values.
c3: Note that the double quotes in
c3
have been stripped. Leading and trailing quotes are trimmed if the quotes are balanced within a cell.Note
This change in behavior applies only to newly created imported datasets sourced from a CSV file. Existing imported datasets should not be affected. However, if a newly imported dataset is transformed by a previously existing recipe that compensated for the extra quotes in the Transformer page, the effects on output data could be unpredictable. These recipes and their steps should be reviewed.
This change does apply to any newly imported dataset sourced from CSV and may cause the data to change. For example, if you export an older flow and import into a new workspace or project, this change in parsing behavior applies to the datasets that are newly created in the new environment. Recipes may require review upon import.
When results are generated in CSV, output files should continue to reflect the formatting of the source data before import. See above.
Tip
You can also choose the Include quotes option when creating a CSV output.
When profiling is enabled, values that appear in CSV as
""
are now marked as missing.
API:
To prevent overloading mission-critical API endpoints, rate limiting on a select set of API endpoints has been implemented in the Alteryx Analytics Cloud. For more information, see Changes to the APIs.
Deprecated
None.
Key Bug Fixes
None.
New Known Issues
Ticket | Description |
---|---|
TD-63974 | In imported datasets sourced from CSV files, double quotes that are escaped with a backslash ( |
September 15, 2021
Release 8.7 - push 2
What's New
Templates:
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
From the Flows page, you can now access pre-configured templates directly from the templates gallery.
Tip
Click Templates in the Flows page. Select the template, and the template is opened in Flow View for you.
For more information, see Flows Page.
Changes in System Behavior
None.
Deprecated
None.
Key Bug Fixes
None.
New Known Issues
None.
September 1, 2021
Release 8.7
What's New
Browsers:
Update to supported browsers:
Mozilla Firefox is generally supported.
Microsoft Edge is now supported.
Note
NOTE: This feature is in Beta release.
New versions of supported browsers are now supported.
For more information, see Browser Requirements.
Plans:
Create plan tasks to deliver messages to a specified Slack channel.
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
For more information, see Create Slack Task.
Connectivity:
Access to S3 is now managed using the native AWS SDK.
Recipe panel:
Some enhancements to flagging steps for review. See Flag for Review.
Changes in System Behavior
None.
Deprecated
API:
Deprecated API endpoint to transfer assets between users has been removed from the platform. This endpoint was previously replaced by an improved method of transfer.
Some connection-related endpoints have been deprecated. These endpoints have little value for public use.
For more information, see Changes to the APIs.
Key Bug Fixes
Ticket | Description |
---|---|
TD-63564 | Schedules created by a flow collaborator with editor access stop working if the collaborator is removed from the flow. Collaborators with viewer access cannot create schedules. |
New Known Issues
Ticket | Description |
---|---|
TD-63517 | Unpivoting a String column preserves null values in Spark but converts them to empty strings in Photon. Running jobs on the different running environments generates different results. Tip After the unpivot step, you can add an Edit with formula step. Set the columns to all of the columns in the unpivot and add the following formula, which converts all missing values to null values: if(ismissing($col),NULL(),$col) |
August 2, 2021
Release 8.6
What's New
Note
Trifacta Standard product edition is no longer available. All customers of this product edition have been moved to other product editions.
Rename Workspace
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
Collaboration:Workspace administrators can now edit the workspace name. Select Admin console > Settings. For more information, see Workspace Settings Page.
Flow editors and plan collaborators can be permitted to schedule jobs. See Workspace Settings Page.
Connectivity:
Early Preview (read-only) connections available with this release:
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
NetSuite
For more information, see Early Preview Connection Types.
Performance:
Conversion jobs are now processed asynchronously.
Better management of file locking and concurrency during job execution.
Better Handling of JSON files
The Trifacta Application now supports the regularly formatted JSON files during import. You can now import flat JSON records contained in a single array object. With this, each array is treated as a single line and imported as a new row. For more information, see Working with JSON v2.
Changes in System Behavior
None.
Deprecated
None.
Key Bug Fixes
None.
New Known Issues
Ticket | Description |
---|---|
TD-63564 | Schedules created by a flow collaborator with editor access stop working if the collaborator is removed from the flow. Tip Flow owners can delete the schedule and create a new one. When this issue is fixed, the original schedule will continue to be executed under the flow owner's account. Collaborators with viewer access cannot create schedules. |
June 28, 2021
Release 8.5
What's New
Parameterization:
Create environment parameters to ensure that all users of the project or workspace use consistent references.
Note
You must be a workspace administrator or project owner to create environment parameters.
Note
Environment parameters can be exported from one project or workspace and imported into another, so that these references are consistent across the enterprise.
For more information, see Environment Parameters Page.
For more information on parameters in general, see Overview of Parameterization.
Parameterize names of your storage buckets using environment parameters.
See Create Outputs.
For more information on parameters, see Overview of Parameterization.
Flow View:
Click a node to see its lineage within the flow. See Flow View Page.
Job execution:
Define SQL scripts to execute before data ingestion or after publication for file-based or table-based jobs.
This feature may need to be enabled in your environment. For more information, see Workspace Settings Page.
For more information, see Create Output SQL Scripts.
Connectivity:
Tip
Click I'm interested on a connection card to upvote adding the connection type to the Trifacta Application. See Create Connection Window.
Early Preview (read-only) connections available with this release:
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
Apache Impala
For more information, see Early Preview Connection Types.
Connectivity:
Connect to your relational database systems hosted on Amazon RDS. In the Connections page, click the Amazon RDS card for your connection type.
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
For more information, see Create Connection Window.
Connectivity:
Read-only support for Teradata connections. For more information, see Teradata Connections.
Developer:
Note
Download and install the Python SDK, which enables you to leverage the visual tools of the Trifacta Application to transform data in your existing Python pipelines.
Note
This is an Alpha release. Do not deploy the Python SDK in production environments.
Job execution:
You can choose to ignore the recipe errors before job execution and then review any errors in the recipe through the Job Details page.
For more information, see Run Job Page.
For more information, see Job Details Page.
Resource usage:
Review the total vCPU hours consumed by your datasets, recipes, and job execution within your workspace across an arbitrary time period.
For more information, see Plan Usage Page.
For more information, see Usage Metrics.
Language:
NUMVALUE function can be used to convert a String value formatted as a number into an Integer or Decimal value.
NUMFORMAT function now supports configurable grouping and decimal separators for localizing numeric values.
For more information, see Changes to the Language.
Changes in System Behavior
None.
Key Bug Fixes
None.
New Known Issues
None.
June 7, 2021
Release 8.4 push 2
What's New
Template Gallery:
Check out the new gallery of flow templates, which can be imported into your workspace. These templates are pre-configured to solve the most compelling loading and transformation use cases in the product. For more information, see www.trifacta.com/templates.
For more information on importing flows into your workspace, see Import Flow.
Connectivity:
Early Preview (read-only) connections available with this release:
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
YouTube Analytics
For more information, see Early Preview Connection Types
Changes in System Behavior
None.
Key Bug Fixes
None.
New Known Issues
None.
May 24, 2021
Release 8.4
What's New
Self-serve upgrades from your free trial: Through the Admin console, you can review and select the paid plan that works for you. Submit payment details through the application and begin using your upgrade workspace immediately.
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
See Plan Usage Page.
Connectivity:
Early Preview (read-only) connections available with this release:
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
Splunk
For more information, see Early Preview Connection Types.
Connectivity:
Support for Google Sheets connections using OAuth2 authentication. For more information, see Google Sheets Connections.
Collaboration:
You can receive email notifications whenever a plan or a flow is shared with you by the owner.
This feature may need to be enabled in your environment. For more information, see Workspace Settings Page.
For more information, see Email Notifications Page.
Language:
New content on parsing functions. See Changes to the Language.
Changes in System Behavior
None.
Key Bug Fixes
Ticket | Description |
---|---|
TD-60881 | Incorrect file path and missing file extension in the application for parameterized outputs |
TD-60382 | Date format |
New Known Issues
None.
May 5, 2021
Release 8.3 - push 2
What's New
None.
Changes in System Behavior
Improved method of JSON import
The Trifacta Application now uses the conversion service to ingest JSON files during import. This improved method of ingestion can save significant time wrangling JSON into records.
Note
The new method of JSON import is now enabled by default. It can be disabled as needed. Additional information is below.
For more information, see Working with JSON v2.
Key Bug Fixes
None.
New Known Issues
None.
April 26, 2021
Release 8.3
What's New
Tip
Login through https://cloud.trifacta.com and then choose the workspace to which to connect. If you are a member of multiple workspaces, you can switch between workspaces through the User menu. For more information, see Home Page.
Connectivity:
Early Preview (read-only) connections available with this release:
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
Cockroach DB
DB2
Magento
Redis
Shopify
Smartsheet
Trello
QuickBase
For more information, see Early Preview Connection Types.
Connectivity:
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
You can publish results to external S3 buckets through an Access key and Secret key. For more information, see External S3 Connections
Job execution:
Introducing new filter pushdowns to optimize the performance of your flows during job execution. For more information, see Flow Optimization Settings Dialog.
Job results:
You can now preview job results and download them from the Overview tab of the Job details page. For more information, see Job Details Page.
Tip
You can also preview job results in Flow View. See View for Outputs.
Changes in System Behavior
Improved method of JSON import
Beginning in this release, the Trifacta Application now uses the conversion service to ingest JSON files during import. This improved method of ingestion can save significant time wrangling JSON into records.
Note
The new method of JSON import is disabled by default but can be enabled as needed.
For more information, see Working with JSON v2.
Flows that use imported datasets created using the old method continue to work without modification.
Note
It is likely that support for the v1 version of JSON import is deprecated in a future release. You should switch to using the new version as soon as possible. For more information on migrating your flows and datasets to use the new version, see Working with JSON v1.
Future work on support for JSON is targeted for the v2 version only.
For more information on using the old version and migrating to the new version, see Working with JSON v1.
API
The following API endpoints are scheduled for deprecation in a future release:
Note
Please avoid using the following endpoints.
/v4/connections/vendors /v4/connections/credentialTypes /v4/connections/:id/publish/info /v4/connections/:id/import/info
These endpoints have little value for public use.
Key Bug Fixes
Ticket | Description |
---|---|
TD-60701 | Most non-ASCII characters incorrectly represented in visual profile downloaded in PDF format |
TD-59854 | Datetime column from Parquet file incorrectly inferred to the wrong data type on import. |
New Known Issues
None.
March 31, 2021
Release 8.2 - push 2
What's New
This is the initial release of the following product editions:
Enterprise Edition
Professional Edition
Starter Edition
Tip
Trial customers can upgrade through the Admin console. See Admin Console.
Changes in System Behavior
None.
Key Fixes
None.
New Known Issues
None.
March 22, 2021
Release 8.2
What's New
Preferences:
Re-organized user account, preferences, and storage settings to streamline the setup process. See Preferences Page.
API:
You can now transfer ownership of assets created in Designer Cloud between users, based on their user identifiers or email addresses. For more information, see Changes to the APIs.
Connectivity:
Early Preview (read-only) connections available with this release:
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
Amazon Athena
Amazon DynamoDB
Greenplum
HubSpot
MariaDB
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
ServiceNow
Smartsheet
For more information, see Early Preview Connection Types.
Plan metadata references:
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
Use metadata values from other tasks and from the plan itself in your HTTP task definitions.
For more information, see Create HTTP Task.
For more information, see Plan Metadata References.
Spark Execution Properties Settings:
Advanced Spark parameters have been newly added to the Spark running environment. Use these parameters to override the global Spark settings for individual jobs. For more information, see Spark Execution Properties Settings.
Improve Accessibility of Job Results:
The Jobs tabs have been enhanced to display the list of latest and the previous jobs that have been executed for the selected output.
For more information, see View for Outputs.
Sample Jobs Page:
You can monitor the status of all sample jobs that you have generated. Project administrators can access all sample jobs in the workspace. For more information, see Sample Jobs Page.
Changes in System Behavior
None.
Key Fixes
Ticket | Description |
---|---|
TD-59236 | Use of percent sign (%) in file names causes Transformer page to crash during preview. |
TD-59218 | BOM characters at the beginning of a file causing multiple headers to appear in Transformer Page. |
TD-58932 | Cannot read file paths with colons from EMR Spark jobs |
TD-58802 | Running job on Photon using zipped CSV that was uploaded yields garbage characters in output. |
TD-58694 | Very large number of files generated during Spark job execution |
New Known Issues
Ticket | Description |
---|---|
TD-60701 | Most non-ASCII characters incorrectly represented in visual profile downloaded in PDF format. |
February 26, 2021
Release 8.1
What's New
Storage environment:
Support for use of TFS and S3 as storage environments at the same time. For more information, see Configure Storage Environment.
Note
When new workspaces are created, TFS is set as the default storage environment. S3 can be added as another storage environment or set as the default storage environment as sign-up is complete. For more information, see Getting Started with Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta.
Connectivity:
Introducing Early Preview connections. In each release of cloud-based product editions, new connection types may be made available in read-only mode for users to begin exploring their datasets stored in the connected datastores.
Note
Early Preview connection types are read-only and are subject to change before they may be made generally available.
Note
This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.
Early Preview connections available with this release:
Airtable
Cassandra
Freshdesk
MailChimp
For more information, see Early Preview Connection Types.
API:
Customize connection types (connectors) to ensure consistency across all connections of the same type and to meet your enterprise requirements. For more information, see Changes to the APIs.
Job results:
Results of data quality checks are now part of the visual profile PDF available with your job results. In the PDF, you can download the data quality results over the entire dataset .
Visual profiling must be enabled for the job.
For more information, see Job Details Page.
Specify column headers during import
You can specify the column headers for your dataset during import. For more information, see Import Data Page.
Changes in System Behavior
None.
Key Bug Fixes
Ticket | Description |
---|---|
TD-56170 | The Test Connection button for some relational connection types does not perform a test authentication of user credentials. |
TD-54440 | Header sizes at intermediate nodes for JDBC queries cannot be larger than 16K. Previously, the column names for JDBC data sources were passed as part of a header in a GET request. For very wide datasets, these GET requests often exceeded 16K in size, which represented a security risk. |
New Known Issues
None.
March 9, 2021
Release 8.1, push 2
What's New
Macro updates:
You can replace an existing macro definition with a macro that you have exported to your local desktop.
Note
Before you replace the existing macro, you must export a macro to your local desktop. For more information, see Export Macro.
For more information, see Macros Page.
Early Preview connections available with this release:
Google Analytics
For more information, see Early Preview Connection Types.
Changes in System Behavior
None.
Key Fixes
None.
New Known Issues
None.
January 26, 2021
Release 8.0
What's New
Connectivity:
Support for connections to SharePoint Lists. See SharePoint Connections.
Support for using OAuth2 authentication for Salesforce connections. See Salesforce Connections.
Support for re-authenticating through connections that were first authenticated using OAuth2.
Import:
Improved method for conversion and ingestion of XLS/XSLX files. For more information, see Import Excel Data.
Recipe development:
The Flag for Review feature enables you to set review checkpoints in your recipes. You can flag recipe steps for review by other collaborators for review and approval. For more information, see Flag for Review.
Metric-based data quality rules:
You can create metric-based data quality rules for assessing the data quality.
For more information, see Add Data Quality Rule.
For more information, see Data Quality Rules Reference.
Update Macros:
Replace / overwrite an existing macro's steps and inputs with a newly created macro.
Map new macro parameters to the existing parameters before replacing.
Edit macro input names and default values as needed.
For more information, see Create or Replace Macro.
For more information, see Overview of Macros.
Job execution:
You can enable the Trifacta Application to apply SQL filter pushdowns to your relational datasources to remove unused rows before their data is imported for a job execution. This optimization can significantly improve performance as less data is transferred during the job run. For more information, see Flow Optimization Settings Dialog.
Optimizations that were applied during the job run now appear in the Job Details Page. See Job Details Page.
APIs:
Individual workspace users can be permitted to create and use their own access tokens for use with the REST APIs. For more information, see Workspace Settings Page.
Changes in System Behavior
None.
Key Bug Fixes
Ticket | Description |
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TD-57180 | AWS jobs run on Photon to publish to HYPER format fail during file conversion or writing. |
New Known Issues
Ticket | Description |
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TD-56170 | The Test Connection button for some relational connection types does not perform a test authentication of user credentials. Tip Append the following to your Connect String Options: ;ConnectOnOpen=true This option forces the connection to validate user credentials as part of the connection. There may be a performance penalty when this option is used. |