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Designer 2019.4 Release Notes

Release Note Product Versions

Version

Release Date

Release

End of Support

2019.4.4.20206

December 9, 2019

Major

June 9, 2021

2019.4.6.21113

January 6, 2020

Minor

July 6, 2021

2019.4.8.22007

January 27, 2020

Minor

July 27, 2021

New Features

  • The Input Data tool now supports reading Tableau Hyper Data Extract (.hyper) files.

  • The Multi-Field Formula tool field selection pane is now re-sizable and can accommodate a large number of fields.

  • Designer is now available in Italian.

  • Designer is now available in beta for Chinese.

  • You can now insert and delete a header from the drop-down menu in the Text Input tool, making copying and pasting easier.

  • You can copy cells, rows, and text from other applications (such as Excel) and paste them into Alteryx, creating a Text Input.

  • You can now select or deselect all left or right fields in a Join Tool in the tool configuration menu.

  • The Find tool (can be opened using the shortcut CTRL + F or by clicking Edit < Find in Designer) was enhanced with the following features:

    • Users can interact with the workflow while it's open.

    • There is now a results window showing where the value is found. Each column can be sorted, and the number of matches are included.

    • Canvas indicators for found and selected tools.

    • New filters and match cases.

  • There are now more options for copying and pasting a tool in a workflow.

  • Multi Resolution Raster (MRR) created by Pitney Bowes is the new reader for read file only, supporting a single raster band from a file, with each pixel in the raster band containing a value.

  • You can now turn location data into business outcomes with high-quality, detailed basemaps from Mapbox. Mapbox macros are now available in the Alteryx Gallery.

  • You can now use your dataset to calculate/aggregate (aggregate within the tool) the sum, count, average, minimum, and maximum of your selected value(s) chosen.

  • Syntax and parenthesis highlighting is now available in the SQL editor and R tool.

Fixed and Known Issues

Fixed

Major Release Version 2019.4.4.20206

ID

Description

Version

Issue Status

DE9123

In the Text Input tool, All Records with Headers pastes only the header when you Ctl + V inside of a cell.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE13188

Amazon S3 Download tool - error from AWS: The HTTP version specified is not supported.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE15315

Incorrect datatype when writing to Oracle.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE15380

RecordID tool output is different after selecting the tool

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE15550

Incorrect behavior when copying manually to Text input tool.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE16857

Error with an append to the hyper file.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE17784

Post SWFL error with merge.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE19574

Fix insights on Gallery.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE19709

Reading NCLOBs with OCI truncates data.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE19951

Unable to upload an insight to Gallery.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE19982

Formulas assigned input fields fail to read back in later formulas.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE20351

App Interface button in toolbar disappears after resetting to defaults.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE20457

Multi-byte character data gets garbled from Report Text to and other Composer tools w/ the email tool.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE20566

Find Tool dialog should handle up/down arrows more intelligently.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE20622

LLS does not honor proxy bypass list settings.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE20649

View XML: Syntax highlighting for Annotation (CData) stops syntax highlighting.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE20750

Input Data annotation shows a large SQL query in the annotation.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE20751

Connect In-Db annotations show a large SQL query in the annotation.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE20752

Exception when pasting in the R Tool, XML editor, SQL editor, when FIPS is enabled.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE20753

Copy and paste can freeze the R tool, SQL editor and XML editor.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE20916

The Interactive Charting tool scatterplot dot sizes don't change when using a data field.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE20958

InDB Score tool throws Unexpected error when running regression workflow.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE21018

Clicking on asset checkboxes are not working after initial export.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE21021

2019.x ignoring proxy details from Internet Options.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE21119

Table tool doesn't allow color graph on Formula.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE21128

Page numbers in the report footer have an issue when there are more than 18 pages.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE21143

Workflow events are not sending email.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE21157

Export Workflow and Save to Gallery does not work for Spanish and Portuguese.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE21184

Keyboard shortcuts do not work when a floating dockable window has the focus

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE21488

Error received when sending multiple email addresses over GMail relay.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

DE21578

CEF Renderer does not support proxy.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

US55496

In the Test View in the Interface Designer of a Batch Macro, control parameters are now text boxes so custom values can be used to debug workflows.

2019.4.4.20206

Fixed

Minor Release Version 2019.4.6.21113

DE22655

Email events are broken in workflows on Gallery.

2019.4.6.21113

Fixed

DE22753

Auto-detect SMTP in email workflow events is broken.

2019.4.6.21113

Fixed

Minor Release Version 2019.4.8.22007

DE19245

Extra blank pages inserted on Allocate Reports when saving PDFs from PCXML/Gallery.

2019.4.8.22007

Fixed

DE22456

AQB not displaying tables/metadata in Teradata.

2019.4.8.22007

Fixed

DE22485

Workflow runs and sends out an email message with a corrupted attachment.

2019.4.8.22007

Fixed

DE22573

Histogram Tool treats Japanese strings as a variable.

2019.4.8.22007

Fixed

DE22574

Scroll bar is unavailable for Japanese users.

2019.4.8.22007

Fixed

DE22633

Association Analysis tool errors for Japanese language.

2019.4.8.22007

Fixed

DE22736

Unable to save style changes in the Fuzzy Match tool.

2019.4.8.22007

Fixed

DE22751

32-bit OCI connections not working in 2019.4 release.

2019.4.8.22007

Fixed

DE22966

Email tool contains raw HTML.

2019.4.8.22007

Fixed

DE23006

Intermittently unable to select/deselect assets from the export modal (Options > Export). Issue is always present with relative paths and is intermittent with absolute paths.

2019.4.8.22007

Fixed

Known

ID

Description

Version

Issue Status

DE20840

In the Insight tool, an error appears when creating a new filter in design mode.

2019.4.4.20206

Known

DE20844

Leading and trailing spaces are removed from the data in the Table tool.

2019.4.4.20206

Known

DE20865

Moving the overview pane while a workflow is running causes Designer to crash.

2019.4.4.20206

Known

DE20907

A macro without a path causes other macros to break.

2019.4.4.20206

Known

DE20920

Histogram tool is treating Japanese strings as a variable.

2019.4.4.20206

Known

DE20922

In the Interactive Chart tool, the user cannot remove the automated suffix label if the numeric values are very large.

2019.4.4.20206

Known

DE20941

The scroll bar in Export Workflow is unavailable for Japanese users.

2019.4.4.20206

Known

DE21219

Adding any tools to output anchors except Browse causes unexpected errors.

2019.4.4.20206

Known

DE21241

In the Insight tool, data labels can be incorrect when aggregating numeric values.

2019.4.4.20206

Known

DE21243

Street Geocoder UK crashes in version 2019.3 but not 2019.2.

2019.4.4.20206

Known

DE21433

Quartile values include minimum margin of error when profiling numeric values.

2019.4.4.20206

Known

DE22651

Unable to input and output Japanese name hyper file.

2019.4.4.20206

Known

DE22655

Workflow events are not sending emails in Server version 19.4 if the workflow with events enabled was built and saved in Designer 19.3 or earlier.

2019.4.4.20206

Known

DE22669

Tableau Hyper Data Extract (.hyper) files writes fixed decimal data types as string data types.

2019.4.4.20206

Known