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Designer 2020.4 Release Notes

Release Note Product Versions

Version

Release Date

Release

End of Support

2020.4.5.12471

November 18, 2020

Major

May 18, 2022

2020.4.6.36807

May 26, 2021

Minor

May 18, 2022

2020.4.7.07392

February 15, 2022

Minor

May 18, 2022

2020.4.8.06491

June 23, 2022

Minor

May 18, 2022

New Features

重要

To address security vulnerabilities in Python version 3.6, embedded Python has been upgraded from 3.6.8 in the 20.3 release to 3.8.5 in the 20.4 release. Custom tools and connectors (YXI files) developed by Alteryx, partners, or any 3rd party that don't ship with the Alteryx installer might need to be reinstalled. This impacts custom tools installed on Designer, Server, and Alteryx Analytics Hub.

Installation Experience Update

The current installation experience is now quicker due to the use of a new methodology. If you install this version and then decide to go back to a prior version (for example, you install version 2020.4 and then decide to go back to version 2020.3), you must uninstall this version through your operating system (OS) and then install the older version.

Select Alteryx Analytics Hub Upload Location in Designer

When you upload to AAH from Designer, you can now save to a location other than your personal folder. To do so from Alteryx Designer, select Save As > Analytics Hub and choose your AAH instance. Use the Select button next to the Location field and choose where you want to save your workflow. Note that only folders that you have permission to write to are available to select.

Designer Updates

We made several updates to Alteryx Designer to improve performance and usability:

  • You can now select and copy the Alteryx Designer version text (first 3 lines) from the version pop-up window accessed via Help > About.

  • The Select tool now auto-sizes the Field column to fit field names without cutting off any text (up to 40 characters).

  • We made a performance improvement to the Data Cleansing tool. We now allow quotes in the field name.

  • We no longer store the tool, container, and comment position and width/height as floating-point values, but rather as integers.

Results Window Toolbar Updates

The toolbar in the Designer Results window was updated.

  • The Apply and Cancel Data Manipulations icons were moved to the middle of the toolbar.

  • The export, copy, and new window options were consolidated under a single Actions menu item.

Sample Datasets

Sample Datasets are now accessible directly via the Designer Help menu. Go to Help > Sample Datasets.

Learn More about AMP Engine

When the workflow type is Macro, the Runtime tab is now available via the Workflow Configuration window. The Runtime tab gives you access to the Use AMP Engine setting so you can build macros with AMP. Additionally, we added inline links to AMP help content in the Runtime tab as well as the Workflow Complete dialog.

Adobe Analytics Authentication Update

When you use the Adobe Analytics tool, you can now authenticate with Adobe.io credentials for user authentication and JWT for service account authentication.

Sort/Join Memory and Threads Improvements

To efficiently utilize the maximum amount of memory when you run your workflows, you can set the Memory Limit and Default Number of Processing Threads. Navigate to the Engine - General tab in System Settings, the Defaults tab in User Settings, or the Runtime tab in Workflow Configuration.

Complete Formula Function Support in AMP

All built-in Formula functions available in the Formula, MultiRowFormula, and MultiFieldFormula tools in Designer are now supported with AMP.

Additional AMP Tools

With AMP, you can now run the Summarize and Download tools with full functionality.

  • The Download tool now supports all code pages listed in Designer GUI.

  • The Summarize tool supports these additional actions: Spatial Combine, Spatial Create Intersection.

CSV Reading and Writing with Code Pages in AMP

When you use CSV file types in the Input and Output Data tools with AMP, you can now rely on additional code page support without fallback to the Original Engine.

Strings Transcoding for AMP

You are now able to transcode strings from different code pages. Visit Code Pages for a list of supported encodings/code pages.代码页

International Numeric Display Support

There are 2 new settings that you can customize to change how numbers display in Designer: Thousand Separator and Decimal Symbol. These settings affect how numbers display on the Designer canvas, the Results window, and the Browse tool Data Profiling. The default settings depend on the language that you select for the Designer interface, but you can always update the defaults.

Visit Localization User Settings for details.用户设置

International Numeric Separator Support

The ToNumber and ToString Conversion functions were updated to support conversion to and from a wide range of numeric formats (including international formats). Visit Conversion functions for details.

Fixed and Known Issues

Fixed

Major Release Version

ID

Description

Version

Issue Status

DE21686

Interface list selections don't show on encrypted macro.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE22361

Internal Error in Memory Allocator: "Tool ID #4 did not call FreeMemory in Join Multiple tool with the original engine.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE22862

Jupyter tool: 404 error when loading workflow from a location with Japanese characters in the path.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE24311

Guzzler error in GuzzlerBuildPolygons: "You have found a bug. Replicate, then let us know. We shall fix it soon."

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE24530

Memory Allocator error when running from the command line with the original engine.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE24553

Publish to Tableau TDSX not created with Hyper Output.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE24666

Memory: Consumption only ~80% of allocated Sort/Join with AMP.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE25820

Incorrect temporary path utilized for .Hyper file creation causes issues in certain environments.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE25877

YXDB with Spatial data does not render output in Gallery with AMP.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE26129

Using AMP, error reading files using wildcard (*) when the file path contains special characters.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE26161

Double Byte space in formula errors out with the AMP engine.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE26223

Workflow returns "Invalid XPath" error on Action tool in 2020.2 but it works in 2020.1.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE26311

Alteryx error with nested Tool Containers.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE26423

Over translation issue on Radio Button (others too) Interface tool in Japanese UI. The name "First N% of Records" translated to a Japanese word.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE26449

Japanese UI: In Contingency table macro, an error is thrown from R tools when field names have Japanese characters.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE26482

Find and Replace accessibility updates.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE26722

Macro with optional inputs doesn't work using AMP engine.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE26775

Error: "Unable to translate alias" when saving to the Gallery with the AMP engine enabled.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE26857

When a data field contains Japanese characters, the Decision Tree tool returns "Decision Tree: Error: mixing Unicode and octal/hex escapes in a string is not allowed."

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE26868

Unhandled Exception occurs when you copy and paste a workflow to a new canvas.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE26871

User is unable to open workflows using macros from newer versions of Alteryx.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE26902

XLSX overwrite fails when multibyte characters exist in the file name or file path.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE26967

XML Parse changed output.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE27007

RegEx tool: Help links in the Configuration panel are broken.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE27019

Update Alteryx.OpenSSL.1.0.2-q.2.3.fips.nupkg hangs in Windows 7.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE27067

Translation issue in Japanese version of Designer: "Cut and Connect Around."

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE27085

Translation change request in Japanese version of Designer for Text to Columns tool.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

DE27638

AMP missing output with cluster R tools.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

*

An error can occur for Alteryx Intelligence Suite tools due to length limits for file paths in Windows. That error might result from your file path being too long. If you encounter that error, contact Support. We have a fix.

2020.4.5.12471

Fixed

Minor Release Version 2020.4.6.36807

DE28819

Workflows with Download tool fail with 500 error in version 2020.3.

2020.4.6.36807

Fixed

Minor Release Version 2020.4.7.07392

TELC-2658

DE34056

Unable to write to HDFS with Kerberos when Tokens are larger than a certain size.

2020.4.7.07392

Fixed

Known

ID

Description

Version

Issue Status

DE26424

Results Grid: Error displays when you attempt to sort on In-DB Browse tool.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE26484

Find/Replace only refreshes when you switch tabs with Disable Auto Configure checked.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE26519

Browse tool lands off-screen, with no ability to scroll to it.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE26564

Exporting from the Results grid with a previously used file name does not save.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE26683

DateTime Month Parse: First 3 letters of words can be mistaken for Months.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE26724

The left column of the Results grid doesn't resize correctly when you move from a tab with no results to a tab with results.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE26779

Problem saving a workflow to Server reading the same Excel file multiple times.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE26780

A macro's name is translated when the name is a month's name in English.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE26851

Render tool output from the R anchor of the Forest Model tool is garbled.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE26874

Saving to a shared folder with 2 users can cause the workflow name to appear in the path.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE26905

Workflow never finishes running with Skip Field Names checked for XLSX output.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE26907

Dynamic Input errors for Excel sheets with spaces in sheet names.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE26915

Workflow execution message in Japanese UI is garbled in 2020.3.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE26961

Updating values using workflow constants intermittently fails with AMP.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE27050

Using fields with multibyte characters as target variables in Forest Model and Score tools generates an error.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE27095

Workflow name with single quotes hangs when saving.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE27143

Arrange tool over translation issue.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE27146

New Workflow tabs scroll to hide the closing "X" icon.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE27167

The field names in the Arrange tool are automatically translated into Japanese from English.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE27172

S3 staging append options error when using fully qualified table name.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE27278

PDF output by the Render tool gets slower on large records.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE27302

Entering an Analytics Hub site connection with HTTP in the URL causes Designer to become unresponsive.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE27303

Analytics Hub/Designer: View Log in Browser option navigates to broken URL in Alteryx Analytics Hub.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE27339

AMP Engine: OleDB connection error with SQL Server.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE27342

Alteryx Analytics Hub: Special characters in Description field cause workflow upload to hang.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE27350

Writing to .Hyper file using Create New Extract File overwrites the file if it already exists.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE27370

Alteryx Analytics Hub: Connecting to Hub site with expired cert and expired session token opens an empty modal.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE27396

.yxzp named differently than the .yxmd file saved in Alteryx Analytics Hub causes an error when saved.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE27554

OCI - CLOB error with special and multibyte characters.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE27657

Questions constants don't work in YXMC on AMP.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

DE27816

The metadata in the IRG does not populate correctly prior to a workflow run (you might see an error or a red "x"). To prevent this issue, run your workflow.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

TCPE-104

Report and interactive outputs cause intermittent Designer crash.

2020.4.5.12471

Known

*This defect does not have an associated defect number.

Security Updates

Fixed

Patch/Minor Release Version 2020.4.8.06491

ID

Description

Version

Issue Status

TELC-2814

GCSE-422

AMP Engine may log sensitive information when processing workflows that contain Gallery Connections.

2020.4.8.06491

Fixed