What's New

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2022.1

New Features

Alteryx Designer FIPS

Alteryx Designer FIPS version 2022.1 is the first release of Designer that offers a FIPS 140-2 capable option for customers that require FIPS compliance. Please note that FIPS standards are developed by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for use by US government agencies and contractors. For more information about FIPS, go to the NIST FIPS FAQ page.

The general release version of Alteryx Designer is not FIPS capable. A separate release (and installer*) is available under separate license terms, for our FIPS 140-2 customers.

*Alteryx Designer FIPS uses new installer technology. As a result, the installation experience is different than what you might be used to when installing other Alteryx products.

Note

With the Alteryx Designer FIPS 2022.1 release, certain Designer tools and features are either not available or offer limited functionality. Over time, we plan to make many of these tools and features available again in future Alteryx Designer FIPS releases.

AMP as Default Engine

Alteryx Multi-threaded Processing (AMP) is a new architecture of the Alteryx Engine, designed to work with larger volumes of data at higher velocity. To learn more about the AMP Engine as well as differences between the original Engine and AMP, visit these resources:

You can now configure AMP Engine in User Settings to default to on for the Use AMP Engine for all new workflows setting. You're still be able to enable AMP for existing workflows with the Workflow-level setting. To run existing workflows with the AMP engine, navigate to the Workflow - Configuration pane in Designer and select the Runtime tab. Then check the Use AMP Engine check box to enable Alteryx Multi-threaded Processing.

AMP Engine supports Standard, Iterative, and Batch Macros. In addition, over 85 tools have been converted to run with AMP.

Designer User Interface Improvements

We’ve updated the Designer UI to better align with other Alteryx products. As part of the refresh, you’ll notice new fonts, colors, and icons—all part of a more modern look and feel.

One notable change is that when you run your workflow, you’ll no longer see the text "(Running)" in your workflow tab. Instead, you’ll see a spinning/loading icon in the tab, beside the title of your workflow.

Updated Gallery References to Server

We have replaced any references to "Gallery" inside of Designer to instead reference "Server" and thus align with recent terminology updates to the Alteryx Server product.

Auto Insights Uploader

The Auto Insights Uploader tool is now a default tool in Alteryx Designer. You can access Auto Insights Uploader via the In/Out and Favorites tools categories.

DCM Connection Tool

The DCM Connection tool is a new tool within the Interface tools family. With the DCM Connection Tool , you can display a prompt in an app or macro, and allow the user to pick a Connection from their DCM storage.

Part of Speech Tagger Tool

The Part-of-Speech Tagger tool allows you to determine a given word's part of speech. You can analyze specific parts of speech and refine outcomes for other Text Mining tools. For example, you can create word clouds of only verbs or topic models with just nouns.

Barcode Tool

The Barcode tool extracts information stored in QR codes and barcodes. The tool can also generate QR codes and barcodes. You can extract underlying information in QR codes and barcodes to automate business processes. For example, some companies use QR codes to determine whether documents are relevant to certain departments, then organize documents by Finance, HR, Marketing, etc. accordingly.

OCR Optimization for Image Processing Tool

We added an OCR Optimization feature to the Image Processing tool. Use the OCR Optimization step to pre-process your image or PDF files for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This additional step can greatly improve the Key-Value Pair tool results.

Key-Value Pair Tool

The Key-Value Pair tool links 2 data elements, a key, which defines the data set, and its value, which belongs to the dataset. For example, Company: Alteryx, where "Company" is the key and "Alteryx" is the value of the key "Company."

OCR Speed Optimization

Introduced performance improvements to the Image Input and Image to Text tools that can make your workflows run even faster! You might notice significant improvements (up to a 40% speed increase) when you parse larger documents such as multi-page PDFs.