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Connect 2020.3 Release Notes

Release Note Product Versions

Version

Date

Release

End of Support

2020.3

September 1, 2020

Major

March 1, 2022

New Features

Bulk Edits

Bulk edit can save you time by choosing and updating multiple assets at once. You can use this feature in any asset section (Analytic Workflows, Reports, and so on) and in Advanced Search. By using the bulk edit function, you can add a value, remove all values, or replace a value in given field.

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List of Tools

Now you can use the Alteryx Designer Tools section to list all Designer workflows which use a certain tool. To check the Designer tools for a certain workflow, go to the Analytic Workflows section in Connect, open one of the Alteryx Workflows, then check the Alteryx Designer Tools section. Open one of the Tools and check the lineage in the Relationships section to see where that tool is used. Please note that all custom (user created) macros are parsed.

New API Endpoints Allow Editing

New Connect API POST endpoints have been recently added. These endpoints allow you to perform the following actions: to create a new custom field, bind a custom field to an asset, set an asset field value, set an asset's lifecycle (certify and decertify an asset or set an asset as "Do not use"). Furthermore, administrators can upload configuration files and loading job configurations and execute the called loading job to Connect.

Additionally, API documentation for developers is newly available from the Help, Guides, Feedback menu represented by a question mark icon in the upper right corner.

Metadata Loaders

Microsoft Azure Data Lake Store Gen 2 Loader

As of the Connect version 20.3, Gen1 and Gen2 are supported by the ADLS metadata loader.

Since Data Lake Storage Gen2 makes Azure Storage the foundation for building enterprise data lakes on Azure, we have added support for harvesting metadata from this technology. Now you can harvest metadata from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, and Azure Blob Storage.

Updated Tableau Loader

Tableau Loader now supports Personal Token Authentication. Additionally, the whole loader was redesigned for better performance. More advanced filtering on Project names, Favorites Project, or Workbook Tags has been enabled as well. You can specify the reports you want to load with a specific tag or load all the reports except of the reports with a certain tag. In other words, it can be used as a reverse filter as well.

Views in Teradata Loader

Teradata loader was enhanced to extract datatypes and sizes from VIEWS columns.

Additional Enhancements

  • Tomcat has been upgraded to version 9.0.36 to patch security vulnerabilities.

  • Loading of Custom Fields: You can automatically load the custom fields for database assets. More information about how to do that you can find in the article Bring Your Own Metadata Using Custom Fields.

  • Alteryx Loader extracts AMP engine flag: You can search on workflows which have AMP engine enabled/disabled.

Fixed and Known Issues

Major Release Version 2020.3

Fixed

ID

Description

Version

Issue Status

DE22822

Description of Admin permissions does not correspond to actual behaviour.

2020.3

Fixed

DE22991

Certification attribute in Search suggestions is cropped if names are short.

2020.3

Fixed

DE25155

LDAP Group with wrong membership properties breaks the sync.

2020.3

Fixed

DE25799

Login is possible while SAML connection is deleted.

2020.3

Fixed

DE25939

Administration Console: Purge removed entries after number of days added back to Admin Console > Performance > Tweaks.

2020.3

Fixed

DE26083

Indexing fails once more when currentVersion exists.

2020.3

Fixed

DE26198

Glossary Terms import issues.

2020.3

Fixed

DE26271

Properties file is being overwritten during upgrade.

2020.3

Fixed

DE26285

Not enough information in EVENT_AUDIT when using SAML.

2020.3

Fixed

DE25234

Connect Vertica loader: Insert to DB_KEY_COLUMN_USAGE fails on duplicates.

2020.3

Fixed

DE25235

Tableau loader: Loading Empty Site error.

2020.3

Fixed

DE25348

Microsoft Azure Data Catalog loader: Duplicities after changes in Tables/Columns comments.

2020.3

Fixed

DE25595

Alteryx loader: Parsing INDB connection error.

2020.3

Fixed

DE25631

Tableau loader: Null values and Field conversion error.

2020.3

Fixed

DE25732

Alteryx loader: Empty Big Query tools cause warnings on insert to stage.

2020.3

Fixed

DE25748

Alteryx loader: InDB file parsing error.

2020.3

Fixed

DE25814

Teradata loader: Duplicates on insert to stage.

2020.3

Fixed

DE26507

Color of object inside the diagram cannot be changed.

2020.3

Fixed

Known

ID

Description

Version

Issue Status

DE26479

The life cycle is not initialized after the installation.

2020.3

Known