It’s really great that there’s finally a “2.0” version of the Alteryx activities. Finally, we can connect with the newer versions of Alteryx Server (2022, 2023) without having to do it through API calls alone.
I have gotten the new 2.0.1 package activities to work, but have run into a few problems. Wondering if anyone knows if there are workarounds or if anyone knows if there are any fixes in the works.
- Get Workflows – Search does not appear to work. If I put any text in Search, the activity returns 0 items. Interestingly, using the Alteryx API directly, I am able to search for workflows containing particular text.
- Run Job – Wait argument causes fault. If I put any value other than 0 in Wait, the activity faults with a “400 unexpected message output” error; however, the job does run on the Alteryx Server. If I put 0 in Wait, the activity does not fault and returns a job variable that I can use to do my own “loop and wait for completion” logic.
- Get Job Output – Format does not cause the specified format to download. No matter what I put in the Format argument (e.g. “csv”, “xls”, etc.) the file that downloads is actually a .yxdb Alteryx database file even though it saves with the requested extension. Interestingly, with the Alteryx API, I am able to request output in a particular format (xls, csv, etc.) and it works fine.
So the bottom line is that the Alteryx 2.0.1 activities are a nice step in the right direction, but they appear to need some polishing/completion to support all the functions they aim to support.