This blog series, titled “AlteryxTips,” will feature helpful Alteryx tips delivered weekly by AlteryxACE AkimasaKajitani.
This time, I will introduce a feature of Alteryx Designer.
As you revise workflows, you may often find yourself unsure of exactly what was changed. In such cases, this feature can help you quickly identify the differences.
The “Compare Workflows” Feature
Starting with Designer 2021.3, a workflow comparison feature has been added.
To access this feature, select [Options] – [Advanced Options] – [Compare Workflows] from the menu. This will display a dialog like the one shown below.
In this example, the workflows to compare have already been selected. After selecting two workflows and clicking the “Compare” button, the comparison results will be displayed.
Here, when you click the drop-down menus for Workflow 1 and Workflow 2, you can specify workflows that are currently open in Designer. If the workflow is not open, use the Browse button to locate the file.
This causes the areas with differences to be highlighted in orange, as shown below.
The results window shows the parts that differ. In this example, it reports that the output connection is different and that the settings are different. However, it does not tell you exactly what has changed, so if you want to check differences in settings, you need to click each tool individually.
If you want to automatically detect more detailed differences, it may be worth using a tool such as the “Workflow XML Parser” introduced previously to perform a more detailed comparison.
Conclusion
- I introduced a method for comparing the differences between two workflows.
- Since comparisons at the detailed parameter level are not available, consider using tools such as Workflow XML Parser.
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