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Designer 2020.1 Release Notes

Release Note Product Versions

Version

Release Date

Release

End of Support

2020.1.1.23790

March 5, 2020

Major

September 5, 2021

2020.1.2.24185

March 13, 2020

Minor

September 13, 2021

2020.1.5.25447

April 13, 2020

Minor

October 13, 2021

New Features

Publish to Public Gallery

  • Gallery Artisans can now see an additional confirmation dialog when they select Sharing > Place in Public Gallery. This reminds users content is being publicly shared in the Public Gallery.

  • Additionally, when users select Save As in Designer, they will now see explicit options for Private Gallery and Public Gallery.

Localization Updates

  • Simplified Chinese is now available in Designer, making it the 8th supported language.

  • You can now toggle to any one of our 8 supported languages within Designer. Access all supported languages and Localization Settings via the globe icon next to Help in the main menu.

  • You can now sort your tool palette to follow English Alphabetical order, even if you're using a non-EN user interface. Access this new feature via globe icon > Localization Settings > Tool Palette Order. We do not yet support the sorting of Kanji characters.

Excel Enhancements

Several enhancements related to Excel file input are now available:

  • When you select a .xlsx or .xlsm Excel file in the Input Data and the Output Data tools, you can now select a range for cells, rows, or columns.

  • The Excel Input screen now has a Refresh button. If you can't input an Excel sheet because the file is open in Excel, you can now close the file and select Refresh from the Excel Input screen without closing and reopening the screen.

  • The List of Sheet Names option in the Input Data tool for .xlsx files now returns the sheet names in the order they appear in Excel.

  • You can now Preserve Formatting on Overwrite when overwriting a sheet or range via the Output Data tool Options. In order to preserve formatting, you have to:

    • Select Overwrite Sheet or Range via Output Options.

    • Specify cell ranges in the output file path.

Smarter Data Profiling

Holistic profiling allows you to view profiling for multiple columns at once in a single view in the Browse tool.

Additional Enhancements

  • The following keyboard shortcuts are now available in Designer:

    • Select the Tool Palette: Ctrl + Shift + T

    • Select the Overview panel: Ctrl + Shift + V

    • Select the Results panel: Ctrl + Shift + G (results grid)

    • Select the Configuration panel: Ctrl + Shift + C

    • Select the Canvas: Ctrl + Shift + W

    • Select the Interface Designer Window: Ctrl + Shift + D

  • New one tool examples are available in In/Out, Preparation, Transform, Interface, Calgary, and Developer tool categories.

    • In/Out: Date Time Now

    • Preparation: Create Samples, Oversample Field

    • Transform: Arrange, Weighted Average

    • Interface: Control Parameter, Folder Browse, Macro Input, Macro Output

    • Calgary: Calgary Input, Calgary Join, Calgary Cross Count, Calgary Cross Count Append, Calgary Loader

    • Developer: API Output, Detour, Detour End, Python, Run Command

  • When you select a single tool on your canvas, the F2 key on your keyboard now opens the tool's Annotation configuration window with the cursor placed in the Annotation text field.

  • The font size of container names is no longer oversized when printing a workflow.

  • Macro Input questions are no longer deleted from the XML when they are cached.

  • Comments inside tool containers no longer hide tools.

  • The join order (Input_#1, Input_#2, etc.) in the Join Multiple tool is now maintained after saving.

  • You can now resize column widths in the tool configuration window. This is particularly helpful when working with long field names in the Join, Append Fields, and Join Multiple tools that previously required you to expand the configuration panel in order to see all columns.

  • You can now change the color of the input string number so that it is visible when opting into a darkened canvas in Designer. Go to User Settings > Canvas > Connection Settings > Text Color.

  • You can now open multiple copies of the same workflow again by selecting Allow multiple tabs of the same file to be open in User Settings or by selecting the Shift key while opening a file to open more than one of them.

Fixed and Known Issues

Fixed

Major Release Version 2020.1.1.23790

ID

Description

Version

Issue Status

DE7877

Parts of the canvas interface go blank when moused over.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE17463

In-DB Table/FieldName SQL Style set to None for Read does not work.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE17494

Cannot resize column widths in the user interface.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE18314

Comments inside a Tool Container hide tools, even after saving.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE18653

Browse window is blocking theworkflow complete pop-up window, preventing users from selecting OK.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE18668

Alteryx 2018.4 takes over screen when a workflow completes.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE18842

Inconsistent metadata handling in Python tools.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE18969

Unable to display Variable Importance plot of Decision Tree Tool in Japanese version of Designer.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE19061

The join order (Input_#1, Input_#2, etc.) in the Join Multiple tool is not maintained after saving.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE19541

Error reading in data from Snowflake if scale for fixed decimal is zero.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE19705

Shapefile (.shp) data, located under a folder that contains Japanese characters in the name, have issue loading encoding info.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE20430

Yxdb viewer comes up behind main Designer window when opening.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE20576

Designer only takes the child elements of the root XML Configuration node and persists that into the workflow, ignoring any attributes on the root XML Configuration node.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE21014

When selecting specific assets when exporting, all assets are packaged and exported.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE21119

The Table tool doesn't allow a color graph based on a formula.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE21164

When importing data that contains multibyte characters into the Decision Tree tool, an error occurs (2019.3.2)

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE21247

The Macro Input questions are deleted from the XML when they are cached. If the macro is saved after Macro Inputs were cached, the questions are missing.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE21325

The Table tool drops borders in Japanese version of Designer.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE21546

Disable All Tools that Write Output should allow caching.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE21924

Tooltips prevent clicking on the menu when you right-click > Insert > Macro... on the Designer canvas.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE21947

When you search for a tool that is inside of a disabled or folded container, go to the last parent container that is visible rather than the place on the canvas where the tool would be if you could see it.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22033

Jupyter tool loses metadata when opening workflows with cached metadata.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22061

Caching a workflow with errors results in an incomplete cache state.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22084

The font size of container names is oversized when printing.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22087

Inputting an open Excel document gives a persistent error message once the Excel document is closed.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22143

Packaging a macro when encrypting results in an error.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22166

Disable All Tools that Write Output: Output tools are disabled after conversion to a macro.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22168

Canvas Settings: Cannot change the color of the input string.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22169

Asset Management list (in user settings) is too small.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22198

In the Reporting Table tool, selecting Bar Graph > Settings > and changing Color Mode, results in an unhandled exception.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22201

Selecting Shift and using your mouse scroll wheel does not scroll horizontally in the browse data grid.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22223

Switching from macro to workflow removes Runtime tab's wrappings.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22258

Unhandled exception when a macro no longer exists.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22265

Selecting Undo changes does nothing in the Save Workflow and Export Workflow dialogs when Group assets by tool is not selected.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22276

Selecting Help from the context menu of some macro tools in the palette takes you to the Macro Tools help page rather than that specific tool's help page.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22277

Close All But This and Close All should not appear when there is only one canvas tab in Designer.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22290

When a UNC macro watcher goes offline, Designer locks up.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22299

The Results Grid is slow to render when showing hidden fields.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22307

Annotations do not behave correctly on Interface Tools.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22325

A macro can be dropped into itself when dragged from the tool palette.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22336

The Find tool cannot find the annotation text of interface tools.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22355

Python tool is not finding jupytertool_venv as default environment.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22356

Old Python workflows show "Kernel not found" error when invoking configuration window.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22422

Text files cannot be dropped in the drag & drop section of the Files page of the Single Access Point.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22448

File Recovery pops up when opening a new instance of Designer.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22451

Convert Browse to Macro Output creates a MacroInput question type.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22487

Macro Input In-DB tool has a clipping issue with the connection button.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22518

Using Hide All Fields in the Browse tool and Browse Everywhere causes Show All Fields to not show all of the fields.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22647

Unhandled exception affects some users when they right-click on a tool's context menu.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22669

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

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22785

"Open Debug" debug workflow does not support the relative paths used in the original workflow.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

DE22830

Incorrect translation for "Min" in Japanese Summary tool.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

US54807

Default Canvas Annotation Settings to fonts that handle multibyte characters.

2020.1.1.23790

Fixed

Minor Release Version 2020.1.2.24185

DE23933

Delimiters are not being recognized in Input Tool.

2020.1.2.24185

Fixed

Minor Release Version 2020.1.5.25447

DE23172

In this release we have remediated an XML vulnerability, which may have resulted in a denial of service.

2020.1.5.25447

Fixed

DE23980

When you specify a Microsoft Excel sheet name in the Output Data tool, the sheet name is output as name$ (` and $ are added).

2020.1.5.25447

Fixed

DE24071

PDF output from the Render tool creates extra pages in Gallery.

2020.1.5.25447

Fixed

DE24178

CSV field name order is no longer preserved in Transpose and Cross Tab tools.

2020.1.5.25447

Fixed

US61335

Canadian geocoder does not work.

2020.1.5.25447

Fixed

Known

ID

Description

Version

Issue Status

DE17987

Salesforce Output persists a "iterate error HTTP /1.1 400 Bad Request" error in Japanese version.

2020.1.1.23790

Known

DE18048

Salesforce Output Security Token Issue

2020.1.1.23790

Known

DE18410

Output to Excel using Skip Field Names doesn’t work when Preserve Formatting on Overwrite is also selected.

2020.1.1.23790

Known

DE18441

Power BI Output does not display proper dataset name after running.

2020.1.1.23790

Known

DE20015

A multibyte character field name with AS query in SQL results in garbled letters.

2020.1.1.23790

Known

DE21128

Footer created page numbers are incorrect. Page numbers are stuck at a max of 18. Once at page 19, the page number reads Page 19 of 18.

2020.1.1.23790

Known

DE21598

Multibyte character issue in the Oracle Loader App. The message is not displayed correctly in Japanese version.

2020.1.1.23790

Known

DE21770

Strange glyphs appear when running the Predictive sample workflow #6 (Decision Tree).

2020.1.1.23790

Known

DE21872

A character is not showing on output from the Table tool in Japanese version.

2020.1.1.23790

Known

DE21953

Tabbing within the Find window eventually takes the user to the Tool Palette rather than keeping them in the Find window.

2020.1.1.23790

Known

DE21955

The DateTime Now tool in Japanese version of Designer is missing several output format options.

2020.1.1.23790

Known

DE22207

Find Tool window is not resizing correctly on Dock.

2020.1.1.23790

Known

DE22492

Users are unable to create a new Filter for an Insight.

2020.1.1.23790

Known

DE22548

The second export from IRG fails due to not bringing up a sheet option.

2020.1.1.23790

Known

DE22597

Closing Horizontal/Vertical Tab Groups results in the Run button disappearing.

2020.1.1.23790

Known

DE22862

Filename or folder path in Japanese causes UnicodeDecodeError on the Python Tool.

2020.1.1.23790

Known

DE23933

Delimiters are not being recognized in Input Tool.

2020.1.1.23790

Known

DE23980

When you specify a Microsoft Excel sheet name in the Output Data tool, the sheet name is output as name$ (` and $ are added).

2020.1.1.23790

Known