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Designer 2021.1 Release Notes

Release Note Product Versions

Version

Release Date

Release

End of Support

2021.1.2.20534

February 10, 2021

Major

August 10, 2022

2021.1.3.22649

February 25, 2021

Minor

August 10, 2022

2021.1.4.26400

March 25, 2021

Minor

August 10, 2022

2021.1.5.42625

July 8, 2021

Minor

August 10, 2022

2021.1.6.53528

September 7, 2021

Minor

August 10, 2022

2021.1.7.08014

May 24, 2022

Minor

August 10, 2022

New Features

Python Tool Base Folder Update for 2021.1.4

The Python tool base folder name was updated in version 2021.1.4. The folder is now called DesignerBaseTools_vEnv. It was previously called Jupytertool_vEnv.

Updates to Results Window Error Messages

We have updated the text for several error messages that you might encounter in the Designer Results window. These updates help you identify what caused the error and what you can do to prevent it. In addition, certain error messages are now clickable and will take you to a Community article with more information about the error and how to address it.

Licensing Update for Versions 11.7 and Older

You can’t upgrade directly from version 11.7 or older to version 2021.1. If you are using Designer version 11.7 or previous and want to upgrade to 2021.1, you have to first upgrade to version 2020.4 or previous. Then you can upgrade to 2021.1.

New Intelligence Suite Tools

The Alteryx Intelligence Suite has 4 new tools that help you assess the health of your data, set feature types, build features from multiple data streams, and automatically create machine learning models. The tools are AutoML, Build Features, Data Health, and Feature Types. You can find them in the Machine Learning category in Designer.

Text Pre-processing Tool Update

The Text Pre-processing tool now has a second input anchor that allows you to pass in lists of stop words.

Use AMP Engine for All New Workflows

You can now enable a user setting to use the AMP Engine for all new workflows that you create.

Designer Keyboard Navigation Upgrades

You can now navigate the tool palette with the keyboard and use the Enter key to place a tool on the canvas. You can also double-click a tool on the tool palette to add it to the canvas. Visit Shortcuts in Alteryx Designer to read more about this feature.Alteryx Designer 中的快捷方式

Find and Replace Update

We made several updates to the user interface of the Find and Replace window.查找和替换

HTML Developer Tools

Users can now access developer tools via Options > Advanced Options > Show HTML Developer Tools.HTML Developer Tools

Download Tool Update

The Download tool now has a Throttle Records checkbox. Use this to indicate the number of records that you want to pass through the tool per minute.Download Tool Icon 下载工具

Analytic Applications Support in AMP

The running of Analytic Applications is already well utilized with the original engine. Now there is support for Analytic Applications with AMP.

Build Custom Formula Functions on AMP Using XML

As a Designer user working with AMP, you can now use Custom Formula Functions. You can now create specific functions with XML files and use them in workflows with AMP.

Prevent Deadlocks for Grouping and Blocking Tools with AMP

When you build and run workflows that contain grouping and blocking tools (Join, Join Multiple, Tile, Fuzzy Match, Sorting, etc.) with a low memory limit set, you won’t experience the hang issue on the Join tool anymore.

Improved Error Messaging when Connecting to Alteryx Analytics Hub

If you encounter an error when you connect Designer to Alteryx Analytics Hub, improved messaging lets you know what action you need to take to resolve the error.

New Localization User Setting

You can now customize the date format that displays in the Messages tab of the Results window.

New One Tool Examples

New One Tool Examples are available for tools in the Predictive, Time Series, AB Analysis, Data Investigation, and Machine Learning tool categories.Designer 中的示例工作流

New One Model Example

A new One Model Example is available for Text Mining tools.Designer 中的示例工作流

Updated Version of Hyper API

We updated the version of Hyper API to V0.0.11889. Users can now see increased performance when reading and writing Hyper files.

Snowflake Internal Stage Bulkloader Upgrade

We added options to Snowflake Bulk Loader (Local Staging). This allows users to select how to chunk and compress files for bulk loading and can increase performance.

Fixed and Known Issues

Fixed

Major Release Version 2021.1.2.20534

ID

Description

Version

Issue Status

DE17621

Repeatable Defect: Inbound named pipe::not enough bytes read.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE18670

Incorrect DPV codes for ranges of addresses.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE21254

Append Field Map does not allow Custom Mapping for Tableau TDE and Hyper.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE22651

Unable to input/output Japanese Hyper.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE23955

Polygon with hyper file from Alteryx cannot automatically zoom.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE24294

Allocator Deadlock warning message with AMP. Warning messages related to Grouping and Blocking tools have been addressed.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE25056

ToNumber() function hangs if the string is not easily parsed.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE25966

Browse tool crashes when selecting a Date type field (large datasets).

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE26015

Browse tool results in App Results are duplicated when Performance Profiling is turned on.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE26027

Download tool: "InboundNamedPipe GetOverlappedResult: The pipe has been ended".

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE26087

Global Search field gets hidden when Designer window size is set to the minimum possible.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE26383

Tree View ordering of Actions in Interface Designer is not being used by AMP.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE26477

Report Text tool PCXML Expert Mode paired with Email tool (Blank email template).

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE26519

Browse tool lands off-screen. No ability to scroll to it.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE26691

Cache option doesn't function with AMP when the "Disable All Tools that Write Output" option is selected.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE26702

Error when running locked workflows using AMP.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE26851

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

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE26905

Workflow never finishes running with Skip Field Names checked in Excel XLSX.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE26936

Unable to keep layout settings in other languages.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE26961

Updating values using workflow constants fails with AMP.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE27026

Tile tool with no Unique Field selected - Internal Error, Anchor was not closed with AMP.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE27088

Open Containing Folder: The correct folder is not opened when the path contains a comma.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE27095

Alteryx Analytics Hub: Workflow name with single quotes hangs when saving.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE27111

Unable to edit Paper size field in Render tool in Japanese Designer.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE27143

Arrange tool over-translation.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE27188

Fixed decimal produces negative zero for a sum with AMP.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE27339

OleDB connection error with SQL Server on AMP.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE27350

Writing to Hyper file using "Create New Extract File" will overwrite the file if it exists.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE27458

2020Q2 Data issue ConsumerView Fields not Licensed.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE27664

Reports coming from Predictive tools are not translating.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE27740

Generate Rows Browse Everywhere is not working with AMP.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE27867

Publish to Tableau Server tool fails with error: "The file was not uploaded successfully."

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE27879

Summarize tool combine groups spatial objects when it shouldn't with AMP.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE27985

Multibyte character field names read incorrectly for Tableau Hyper.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE28045

File format options with Snowflake Local Staging don't populate when creating an In DB connection.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

DE28047

The Data Cleansing tool doesn't work in 2020.4 when the field name contains line breaks.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

US72212

Abbreviations for the month of March not recognized for DateTime.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

US73727

The calendar widget does not work in 20.3 for the Interface Date and AB Trend tool.

2021.1.2.20534

Fixed

Minor Release Version 2021.1.3.22649

DE28369,

DE28648

Un-updated Python library causing the Word Cloud to break.

2021.1.3.22649

Fixed

DE28677

Workflows and Schedules utilizing Server Data Connections get stuck in queue in an initializing state.

2021.1.3.22649

Fixed

Minor Release Version 2021.1.4.26400

DE28650

Writing fields larger than 16 MB to MSSQL or Snowflake fails with an unknown error.

2021.1.4.26400

Fixed

Minor Release Version 2021.1.5.42625

DE28819

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

2021.1.5.42625

Fixed

Minor Release Version 2021.1.6.53528

TBO-836

Revert breaking change to Lock Workflow feature when in FIPS environments.

2021.1.6.53528

Fixed

Minor Release Version 2021.1.7.08014

TELC-2658

DE34056

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

2021.1.7.08014

Fixed

Known

ID

Description

Version

Issue Status

DE27463

Due to an issue with the way the AMP engine assigns IDs to tools when you drag them onto the canvas, Assisted Modeling might not be able to output the Machine Learning tools onto the canvas when AMP is enabled. To use Assisted Modeling, disable AMP.Alteryx AMP Engine

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE27554

OCI CLOB error with special and multibyte characters.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE27905

Oracle Database Connections limit the User Name to 30 characters when using Active Query Builder.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE27935

Alteryx Designer Report Map functionality broken.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE27952

Sorting results returns 0 results after switching workflows.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE27953

Alteryx Designer Unhandled Exception error with nested containers.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE27954

Workflows using MSSQL DB failed after upgrade to version 2020.3 with an unknown error.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE27955

With the original engine the Test tool checkbox "Don't report errors if there are other errors" is not working.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE27980

Cached macros lose output connection when saved and reopened.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE28074

Spline Model tool in Japanese Designer does not work with its default set values.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE28137

Workflow with warnings returns an irrelevant message to the caller workflow.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE28143

BigQuery Input and Output Connectors only pull in 50 projects.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE28167

The Message tool is incorrectly referencing data with the original engine.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE28192

Oracle Store Proc in post SQL being executed twice when it fails.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE28207

"The Allocator would appear to be deadlocked" warning while reading .yxdb file with 400 MB memory limitation with AMP.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE28211

MBCS Getting garbled from Report Text tool and other Compose tools.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE28294

Multi-byte characters turning to a question mark (?) in the body of the Email tool in Designer.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE28307

Cannot output some Chinese characters using Reporting tools.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE28313

Data not passing through Block Until Done when reading from Salesforce with AMP.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE28328

Error messages from the original engine tools in disabled Tool Containers with AMP.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE28341

Reading a zip archive from a downloaded temp file won't configure reading a file from the archive.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

DE28758

Different Designer versions execute the same workflow within different duration on non-English OS.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

TCPE-104

Report and interactive outputs cause intermittent Designer crash.

2021.1.2.20534

Known

Security Updates

Fixed

Minor Release Version 2021.1.5.42625

ID

Description

Version

Issue Status

DE33626

Disabled external entity parsing for Excel inputs.

2021.1.5.42625

Fixed

DE33627

Set entity expansion limit to 0 for Excel inputs.

2021.1.5.42625

Fixed

Minor Release Version 2021.1.7.08014

TELC-2814

GCSE-422

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

2021.1.7.08014

Fixed