What's New

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2022.3

New Features: Designer

Installer Updates

As of the 2022.3 release, Alteryx Designer, Server, and the R Predictive tools use new installer technology. The updated installer detects your operating system language and installs Alteryx products in that language (if applicable). Go to Download and Install a Product for important upgrade and downgrade considerations and review updated command-line options.

Search in Select

You can now perform a search in Designer tools that use the Select functionality. The search returns only the fields that match your search criteria—it searches the Field, Rename, and Description columns. You can then quickly select or deselect all the returned fields to perform actions on them, edit their data types, rename them, and more. We've also added a check box to let you quickly select and deselect all visible fields. Available in the Select, Join, Join Multiple, Append Fields, Select In-DB, Find Nearest, and Spatial Match tools.

Formula Tool Enhancements

We’ve added enhancements to the Formula tool. Each expression now contains an Expression ID number to assist with documenting and troubleshooting your expressions. Additionally, you can now quickly expand and collapse all expressions in the Formula tool via the expand all/collapse all toggle.

Multi Anchor Caching

You can now cache tools that have multiple output anchors (maximum of 5 anchors). This feature extends the caching functionality to over 50 additional tools. Please note that some tools (including those with more than 5 output anchors and In-DB tools) might still not be cacheable.

Disable Single Output Tool

You can now quickly disable a single Output tool while you develop your workflow or troubleshoot an issue. Use the Disable Tool check box in the tool’s configuration window. While disabled, the Output tool is shaded on the canvas to help visually indicate its disabled status.

Fuzzy Match Support for Japanese

We’ve added support for Japanese to the Fuzzy Match tool. You can now apply predefined match styles, that account for Japanese orthography, to Japanese addresses, names, or text.

Results Grid Accessibility Updates

We’ve made updates to the user interface of the Designer Results grid to improve accessibility via screen readers and other assistive technology. Buttons and controls that were previously only visible under certain conditions are now always visible, though inactive if not applicable.

Compare Workflow Enhancements

We've made improvements to the Compare Workflows feature. When you compare 2 workflows with container tools, if their enabled and disabled states are different, the Compare Workflows functionality identifies them as different.

Start Here Updates

We’ve rebuilt and updated the Start Here experience when you launch Designer. Start Here now launches in its own window rather than a tab on the Designer canvas. We’ll update the content periodically to highlight new features and updates in Designer. If you close the window, you can reopen it via Help > Sample Workflows > Start Here.

AMP Tool Support

There are now 166 fully supported tools and 11 partially supported tools. The partially supported tools fall back to the original Engine for some unsupported functionality.

All Reporting and R tools are now AMP enabled (except the Insights Reporting tool).

There are 7 new AMP-only Connector tools*, 1 new Engines Parity tool, 13 Reporting tools, and 65 R tools for a total of 86 newly supported AMP tools, including the R tool in the Developer category.

*These Connector tools are available as AMP only, and won’t work with the original Engine: Azure Data Lake File Input, Azure Data Lake File Output, Microsoft Power BI Output, OneDrive Input, OneDrive Output, SharePoint Input, and SharePoint Output.

Proxy Support in AMP

Support for networking via proxy has been added to AMP. Support for SFTP over HTTP proxy has been added to both engines. The ability to bypass proxy has been enabled for both engines. You can now specify the Proxy Protocol Type (HTTP and SOCKS5h are supported) in User Settings and System Settings. If you don’t specify the protocol, the default is HTTP.

Engines Parity Utility

Engines Parity Utility is an easy way to compare the original Engine to AMP. It allows you to run both engines in parallel, evaluate the results, and make a decision about which workflow you can confidently convert to AMP. You can run Parity Utility via the command line with AlteryxEngineCmd.exe or run it via Designer using the Gallery Macro download. For more information, go to Parity Framework.

Global Setting to Enable Allow-list for Peer Validation

As an Admin with a non-FIPS Designer version, you are now able to specify a list of problematic hosts in a flat file for which peer validation will be skipped. If users encounter issues with certificate authorization, it does not need to stop the users from work.

Behavior Analysis Tools Deprecation

The Behavior Analysis tools in Alteryx Designer have been deprecated. These tools will continue to work with US Business Insights Data Packages 2021 Q4 and earlier versions.

DCM External Vault

The External Vault feature allows you to connect DCM with your Vault of choice. You can use External Vaults in DCM to fetch credentials from your Vault and securely use them in your workflow. For more information, go to DCM External Vaults.

Google BigQuery Bulk Loading

Bulk loading to Google BigQuery is now available in the Output tool. It is supported with Oauth authentication using DCM. Data staging is done in Google Cloud Storage.

In-DB Support for Google BigQuery

Google BigQuery is now supported for the In-Database tools. It is supported with Oauth authentication using DCM and includes bulk loading for streaming in data.

Connectors Deprecation

We've deprecated these connectors:

  • Dynamics CRM Input and Output
  • Google Sheets Input and Output
  • Publish to Tableau Server
  • Salesforce Einstein Analytics Output
  • Salesforce Wave Output
  • SharePoint List Input and Output

Display Updates in Maps

The Mapbox logo and attribute text now appear at the bottom of the basemaps.

Usage Data Configuration

We have removed the configuration for sending usage data in the Designer User Settings. To read more about our philosophy on usage data, go to Improving Our Products with Usage Data and the Alteryx Privacy Policy.

New Features: Intelligence Suite

PDF to Text Tool

Extract text encoded as characters directly from your PDF files with >99% accuracy. Add OCR to extract images for additional coverage. In most cases, you’ll see an increase in accuracy, speed, and completeness compared to the Image to Text tool.

Zero-shot Text Classification Tool

Classify text into categories of your choice without the need for training data.

Text Summary Tool

Extract a summary of your text based on the TextRank methodology. You can specify the length of the summary by number of sentences.

Image Template Tool Enhancements

Added the ability to edit annotation bounding boxes in the Image Template tool. We enabled this functionality with mini-tate, a new open-source React library from Alteryx.

Shift Step in Image Processing Tool

Added a Shift step to the Image Processing tool. Shift automatically shifts documents into alignment based on a user-defined anchor. Use the Image Template tool to define the anchor with an annotation. Shift can improve OCR results for images that shifted during the scanning process.

Image Recognition Tool Enhancements

Added Evaluation Metrics and Model Report output anchors to the Image Recognition tool. Metrics include information on the precision, recall, and accuracy of each classification label. The report output includes loss and accuracy plots for each epoch. Use these plots to visualize if the tool sufficiently trained the model.