Designer 2019.3 Release Notes
Version:
2019.3
Last modified: December 22, 2020
| Release Note Product Versions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version | Release Date | Release | End of Support | |
| 2019.3.2.15763 | September 3, 2019 | Major | March 3, 2021 | |
| 2019.3.5.17947 | October 17, 2019 | Minor | April 17, 2021 | |
| 2019.3.6.20285 | December 16, 2019 | Minor | June 16, 2021 | |
New Features
- After you export results of a Browse tool to a file, you can click the hyperlink in the pop-up window to view that file.
-
The Input Data tool can be converted to a Dynamic Input tool through the Context menu.
-
New one-tool examples for spatial: There are thirteen new, one-tool examples including Buffer, Create Points, Find Nearest, Generalize, Heat Map, Make Grid, Poly Split, Poly Build, Spatial Info, Smooth, Spatial Match, Spatial Process, and Trade Area.
- Designer now has a beta version of Italian available.
-
The autorecover feature automatically recovers your files in Designer.
-
The Results window (located at the bottom of your workflow) is now even more interactive. By clicking on a column headers' ellipses and selecting to Sort and/or Filter, you can add the tool(s) to your workflow by clicking on the icon at the top, far-right of the Results window. Click Revert to Original in the icon's drop-down to go back to your Results window's original state.
-
If you have more than one version of your macro, you can view which version of the macro is used through the Context menu.
-
You can enable and disable the sound that plays when a workflow completes. In the User Settings menu, select Play Sound at Completion of Workflow.
-
You can drag and drop a folder from Windows File Explorer directly onto the canvas to create a Directory.
-
Overview window enhancements:
- The Overview window now shows you at a glance what tools have finished running.
- Double-click anywhere in the Overview window when you are zoomed out to zoom in again.
-
Press the space bar to close the Finished running window.
-
If you clear an annotation for a file, it reverts to the original file name.
-
Designer now recognizes text (.txt) files when you drag and drop them onto the canvas.
-
A blue border now appears when you select the comment box.
-
When Designer is closed with any unsaved workflows, a prompt appears with options to save any unsaved workflows.
-
When copying and pasting tools, you can now simply point to the canvas and Designer will paste the tool there.
-
The Output Data tool can be converted to an Input Data tool through the Context menu.
-
You can now save the Browse tool as an Output Data tool page or a Macro Output tool.
-
The Browse tool configuration window displays the Sum for numeric columns when data profiling is enabled.
-
Calgary tools include file names in annotations like the other input and output tools.
-
The Email Tool can be manually configured to use SMTP authentication and encryption types.
Fixed and Known Issues
|
Fixed Major Release Version 2019.3.2.15763 |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Description | Version | Issue Status |
| DE12778 | Bugs and inefficiencies with Multi-Field Binning Macro. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE13352 | AWS Aurora MySQL Append Existing downloads all records before insert. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE13841 | Error using spatial objects with SQL Server. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE16707 | Japanese Characters in Temp Render Output. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE17584 | Issue connecting to S3 bucket endpoint for China. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE17686 | Render Tool output is cut off information. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE17845 | Error when writing to Oracle and running a query with a WHERE condition filtering on accented characters. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE18181 | R Tool: Unicode and Shift-JIS from R causes a garbled message in the message pane. | 2019.3.2.15763 |
Fixed |
| DE18252 | The connection progress boxes do not move when tools are moved. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE18650 | Issue writing CLOB data types to Oracle via ODBC and OCI. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE18722 | ARIMA tool does not output results properly when using Japanese user interface. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE19021 | Unable to finish a dialog at completion of a workflow. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE19086 | Column name encoding issue in R tool - Japanese column names turn to "X....". | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE19196 | Issue loading the Designer product walkthrough while using the single point of access. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE19404 | Macros run the quick configuration on every keyboard move. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE19436 | The disable button of containers is still enabled in nested collapsed containers. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE19456 | Opening a second workflow from the file explorer causes Designer to crash. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE19498 | Issue writing large data sets to SharePoint Online lists. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE19680 | Dynamic Rename cannot attain new fields when using analytic app. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE19834 | Not interpreting Dynamic/Unknown field issue in the Japanese user interface. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE19852 | Designer does not open for some users after upgrading to version 2019.2. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
| DE20103 | Unable to launch System Settings on localized installs 2019.2. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Fixed |
|
Minor Release Version 2019.3.5.17947 |
|||
| DE19142 | When a French user tries to import an excel sheet that is currently open on the users machine, an error is thrown. | 2019.3.5.17947 | Known |
| DE20622 | LLS is failing to ignore proxy settings. | 2019.3.5.17947 | Fixed |
| DE20778 | Error while importing Scikit-learn module in Python tool. | 2019.3.5.17947 | Fixed |
| DE21143 | Workflow events not sending email. | 2019.3.5.17947 | Fixed |
| DE21165 | Crew Macro Runner is not working. | 2019.3.5.17947 | Fixed |
| DE20813 | There are no data points displayed on the charts. | 2019.3.5.17947 | Fixed |
| DE20816 | Data is lost when code page is set incorrectly with Japanese data. | 2019.3.5.17947 | Fixed |
| DE21201 | Summarize tool appends prefixes to column headers and propagates them downstream. | 2019.3.5.17947 | Fixed |
| DE21695 | Meiryo / MS Gothic displaying as selectable font | 2019.3.5.17947 | Known |
| US53513 | openBLAS issue | 2019.3.5.17947 | Fixed |
|
Minor Release Version 2019.3.6.20285 |
|||
| DE22248 | Assigned worker not saving when publishing. | 2019.3.6.20285 | Fixed |
|
Known |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Description | Version | Issue Status |
| DE19142 | When a French user tries to import an excel sheet that is currently open on the users machine, an error is thrown. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19176 | Designer crashes when limit keyword is used in the Data Input tool. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19269 | Python tool does not work from Designer instance started from installer. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19293 | Configurations panel disappears after "Run as analytic app" is clicked. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19298 | Join in MySQL not properly reading in spatial data. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19299 | Join in Netezza not properly reading in spatial data. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19300 | Join in Postgres not properly reading in spatial data. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19304 | Redshift/Snowflake Bulk overwrite 'new' table fails with append option. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19391 | Adobe Analytics connector references the wrong directory for supporting macros. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19396 | Workflow with Connection Downloaded from Connect cannot be published to Gallery. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19397 | "Choose Table" window repeats object name 15+ times. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19408 | InDB Filter 'Does Not Equal' broken for Teradata. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19455 | Slow performance with the Spark Code tool when outputting data. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19541 | Error reading in data from Snowflake if scale for fixed decimal is zero. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19569 | The Azure Data Lake File Output tool does not report success in Results panel of Designer. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19572 | Azure Data Lake traceback error when writing with Avro format. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19575 | The Azure Data Lake File Output can select a file made by another user, but when they try to overwrite they get traceback error. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19636 | Tools are removed from tool container when tool containers are nested. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19709 | Reading NCLOBs with OCI truncates data. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19855 | The Allocate macro causes Alteryx to throw an exception. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE19954 | Code is executing in Jupyter notebook after it has been deleted. This is an artifact of Jupyter nbconvert. Users must execute the cells in the Jupyter notebook. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20000 | Alteryx no longer remembers the last file extension saved. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20038 | Incorrect default port for Hadoop 3.0. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20055 | Issue accessing an HDFS filepath from Alteryx. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20061 | The version of Numpy/OpenBlas that Designer uses in 19.2 and 19.3 will cause issues for Designer when trying to use a Python tool. Contact customer support for a resolution. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20074 | Python tool on new workflow shows code from previous workflow. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20090 | Big Query connector failing on Decimal/Numeric types. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20249 | For SQL Server, fields disappear from the Visual Query Builder when using (nolock) statement in SQL editor. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20301 | Broken Download predictive link is not localized. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20320 | Unable to open the macro workflow because of an error. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20351 | Wizard (App Interface) button in toolbar disappears after resetting to defaults. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20356 | Listbox interface tool should not have an 'Include [None]' checkbox option. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20384 | Python installer fails with long path error for Azure Data Lake Input/Output tools. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20430 | yxdb viewer appears behind Designer main window when opening. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20501 | Date dropdown in the Summarize tool is not wide enough to read fields. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20502 | Connection manager files does not accept .txt, .dat, .asc, .log files for drag and drop. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20511 | Connection Status not moving for some tools. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20549 | Directory tool updates meta info very slowly. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20555 | Python tool crashes on PC that supports AVX-512 architecture. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20566 | Find Tool dialog does not handle up and down arrows intelligently. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20577 | Snap to Grid does not work properly with containers. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20629 | Visual Query Builder window is opening and not closing the database connection. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20649 | Syntax highlighting for Annotation (CData) stops syntax highlighting. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20656 | Data Profile Chart has incorrect messaging. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20750 | Input Data annotation shows a large SQL query in the annotation. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20751 | Connect In-Db annotations show a large SQL query instead of 'Table' or 'Query'. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20752 | Exception when pasting in R Tool, XML editor, SQL editor, when FIPS is enabled. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20753 | Copy/Paste can freeze the R tool, SQL editor and XML editor. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20757 | The number of tiles selector doesn't work if "equal sum" or "equal records" are selected as the tile method in the tile tool in 2019.2.7. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE20813 | The Arima tool now supports multi-byte character data, however, the code page selected needs to be Western European, no matter what language is installed. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE21143 | Workflow events not sending email. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |
| DE23005 | Intermittently unable top select/deselect assets from the export modal (Options > Export). Issue is always present with relative paths and is intermittent with absolute paths. | 2019.3.2.15763 | Known |