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Designer 2019.3 Release Notes

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