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Tool Use with AMP

For information on how the original engine and AMP impact a workflow, see: Alteryx Engine and AMP: Main Differences .

Fully-Converted Tools

Tool Difference between the original engine and AMP
Action  
Append Fields  
Arrange  
AutoField Data types might differ.
Basic Data Profile  
Blob Input  
Block Until Done Paralled Block Until Done from CReW Macro pack doesn't work with AMP.
Browse  
Browse Everywhere  
Check Box  
Comment  
Condition  
Control Parameter  
Count Records  
Create Points  
Cross Tab Record order. You can fix this with Engine Compatibility Mode.
Data Cleansing Original Engine removes "©" as a punctuation mark and reorders records when removing null rows without Engine Compability Mode turned on.
Date  
Date Time Now  
DateTime  
Detour  
Detour End  
Directory  
Download  
Drop Down  
Dynamic Input  
Dynamic Rename  
Dynamic Replace  
Dynamic Select  
Error Message  
Expect Equal With the original Engine it's macro. With AMP, Expect Equal is a native tool.
Field Info  
File Browse  
Filter  
Find Replace  
Fuzzy Match Record order/column order. Records are matched in a different order with AMP.
Generate Rows  
Image  
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. There is a maximum of 32 allowed connections for this tool when AMP is enabled. This is to prevent deadlocks.
JSON Parse  
Layout  
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.
Overlay  
Oversample Field  
Pearson Correlation  
Poly-Build Record order. Due to the different method of grouping with AMP, the output order is different.
Radio Button  
Random % Sample Deterministic output mode selects different records with AMP.
RecordID  
RegEx  
Render  
Report Text  
Run Command  
Running Total Record order. Due to the different method of grouping with AMP, the output order is different.
Sample Group by column mode outputs records in a different order.
Select  
Select Records  
Sort Based on sort parameters.
Spatial Info  
Spatial Match In mode "Use records from File or Database" only CSV, YXDB, and SQLite formats have been converted. Other file formats use the original Engine.
Table  
Test With AMP, this tool outputs the error "Error: Test (109): No tests are configured for input #2" if there are no tests for specific connection.
Text Box  
Text Input AMP creates the maximum size field for strings and integers so that subsequent operations have the necessary room to hold larger downstream values, whereas the original Engine creates the minimum size required to accommodate the data.
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. There is a maximum of 32 allowed connections for this tool when AMP is enabled. This is to prevent deadlocks.
Unique Record order and output result (different records). Due to the different method of grouping with AMP, the output order is different.
Weighted Average When Grouping Fields mode is used, AMP outputs records in a different order.
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 such scenario.
Create Samples Summarize tool is partially converted. Formula tool is missing custom formula functions/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 Record order. Can be fixed with Engine Compatibility Mode. Due to a different method of grouping with AMP, the output order is different.
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 Group By. Actions not supported in AMP include Report\Combine Horizontal, Report\Combine Vertical, Spatial\Combine, 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.