Tool Use with AMP
Version:
Current
Last modified: November 25, 2020
For information on how the original engine and AMP impact a workflow, see: Alteryx Engine and AMP: Main Differences.
Fully-Converted Tools
Tools that have been converted from the original engine to AMP.
Tool | Difference between the original engine and AMP |
Action | |
Append Fields | |
Arrange | |
AutoField | |
Basic Data Profile | |
Blob Input | |
Block Until Done | |
Browse | |
Browse Everywhere |
Record order. |
Checkbox | |
Comment | |
Condition | |
Control Parameter | |
Count Records | |
Create Points | |
Cross Tab | Record order |
Data Cleansing | |
Date | |
Date Time Now | |
DateTime | |
Detour | |
Detour End | |
Directory | |
Download | Only UTF8 encoding is supported. |
Drop Down | |
Dynamic Input |
Record order. |
Dynamic Rename | |
Dynamic Replace | |
Dynamic Select | |
Error Message | |
Expect Equal | With the original engine it's a macro, with AMP the Expect Equal is a native tool. |
Field Info | |
File Browse | |
Filter | |
Find Replace | |
Folder Browse | |
Fuzzy Match | Record order/column order. Records are matched in a different order with AMP. |
Generate Rows | |
Input Data | Only XLSX, CSV, YXDB, and SQLite formats have been converted. All other formats will fall back to original Engine. |
Join | Record order. Due to the different method of grouping with AMP, the output order is different. |
Join Multiple | Record order. Due to the different method of grouping with AMP, the output order is different. |
JSON Parse | |
List Box | |
Macro Input | |
Macro Output | |
Make Group | |
Map | |
Message | |
Multi-Field Binning | |
Numeric Up Down | |
Output Data | Only XLSX, CSV, YXDB, and SQLite formats have been converted. All other formats will fall back to original Engine. |
Pearson Correlation | |
Poly-Build | Record order. Due to the different method of grouping with AMP, the output order is different. |
Radio Button | |
Random%Sample | |
Record ID | |
RegEx | |
Run Command | |
Running Total | Record order. Due to the different method of grouping with AMP, the output order is different. |
Sample | |
Select | |
Select Records | |
Sort | |
Spatial Info | |
Spatial Match | In mode "Use records from File or Database" only CSV, YXDB and SQLite formats have been converted. Other file formats will use the original Engine. |
Test | |
Text Box | |
Text Input | |
Text To Columns | |
Throttle | Not available on AMP, but you can use it together with the Download tool (Throttle first). |
Tile | Record order. Due to the different method of grouping with AMP, the output order is different. |
Tool Container | |
Transpose | |
Tree | |
Union | Record order. The order of the records may differ due to their variable processing. You can avoid this by setting a specific output order. |
Unique | Record order and output result (different records). Due to the different method of grouping with AMP, the output order is different. |
Weighted Average | |
XML Parse |
Partially-Converted Tools
Tools where not all functionality or configuration has been converted from the original engine to AMP. The functionality of all partially-converted tools is retained on AMP, with fall-back to the original engine when needed.
Tool | Difference between the original engine and AMP |
Blob Convert | With AMP, the conversion to a Blob from Text Data and vice versa is not supported. Falls back to the original engine in this scenario. |
Create Samples | Summarize tool is partially converted. Formula tool is missing custom expressions/add-ins. |
Distance | Falls back to the original engine for drive time support and distance to destination. |
Find Nearest | AMP does not support drive time/distance, so it falls back to original engine for those operations. |
Formula | Custom saved expressions are not available on AMP. |
Heat Map | Summarize tool is partially converted. |
Imputation | |
Multi Field Formula | Custom saved expressions are not available on AMP. |
Multi Row Formula | Custom saved expressions are not available on AMP. |
Summarize | Different order for actions which use grouping. Actions not supported in AMP, including Report\Combine Horizontal, Report\Combine Vertical and Behavior Analysis\Combine profiles. Falls back to the original engine when used. |
Trade Area | Falls back to the original engine for drive time support. |