Changes to Configuration

To assist administrators in managing configuration, these section provides a per-release set of updates to configuration.

• Platform settings appear in the Admin Settings page. From the left nav bar, select User menu > Admin console > Admin settings. See Admin Settings Page.
  • For more information on configuration in general, see Platform Configuration Methods.

• Settings pertaining to the workspace environment and its users are available through a different page. From the left nav bar, select User menu > Admin console > Workspace settings. See Workspace Settings Page.

Release Updates

Release 8.11

Sample sizes can be configured to be up to 40MB in size

Beginning in this release, sample sizes can be configured to be up to 40MB in size.

Changes in configuration:

• New settings allow for:
  
  • setting the default and maximum size of sample displayed in browser
    • users can override the actual size of the sample downloaded to their browser based on their own experience
  • setting the maximum size of samples stored on the backend
• Previous settings on configuring sample size have been deprecated.

New settings:

Old settings:

webapp.client.maxInternalFormatJsonBytes

For more information, see Configure Application Limits.

Release 8.2

Photon running environment now enabled through Admin console

You can now enable or disable Photon execution through the Admin console.For more information, see Workspace Settings Page.

Removed settings

The features for the following settings are now a part of the core product and can no longer be disabled. These settings have been removed.

Release 8.0

Collaboration settings apply to both flows and plans

In previous releases, the collaboration features (export, import, and sharing) for flows and plans were managed under different settings. These configuration flags to enable the following capabilities have been consolidated:

Release 7.10

Ability to list users is now configurable

Beginning in this release, workspace administrators can choose whether or not individual users are able to see lists of all users in the workspace. When enabled, for example, users who are trying to share their flows can review the list of all workspace users from which they can select the users to share.

Release 7.8

JDBC Connection pooling disabled

Beginning in Release 7.8, JDBC connection pooling is disabled for all environments. This implementation of JDBC-based connection pools has been a source of functional and performance issues, which led to jobs failing. When JDBC connection pooling is disabled:

• The connections made at the platform level are now created on an on-demand basis. For example, if you have one SQL Server Connection created through the user interface, there may be multiple JDBC connections to your SQL Server instance if multiple jobs are executing at the same time.
• The ingest and publishing process may take a bit longer, since the connections are now made on-demand. Transformation jobs should not be affected, since they are executed on the running environment.
• The number of physical JDBC connections should more closely match the number of jobs running concurrently.

Connection pooling may be replaced in a future release.

For more information, see Configure Data Service.

Release 7.6

Migrated parameters

The following parameters have been migrated from the Admin Settings page (sourced from trifacta-conf.json) into the Workspace Settings page (sourced from Configuration Service):

For more information, see Workspace Settings Page.

Use of Spark native libraries now automatic for EMR and Databricks

Prior to Release 7.6, you could configure Spark to use Spark libraries that were either 1) on the local Alteryx node or 2) available on the cluster and provided by the Spark vendor.

Beginning in Release 7.6, Spark automatically uses the vendor libraries for EMR and Databricks clusters. If you are using a Hadoop version of Spark, you can still choose to use the local libraries.

For more information:

• Configure for Spark
• Configure for EMR
• Configure for Azure Databricks

Release 7.1

Unused parameters

Migrate Data Service properties to Configuration Service

Prior to Release 7.1, a number of properties related to the Data Service have been moved from the application.properties configuration file on the Alteryx node into the Configuration Service, where these properties can be better managed across product versions and editions. 

Release 6.5

Release 6.4.1

Following parameter was moved in this release:

Release 6.4

Parameters from Release 6.0 that are no longer available in the Workspace Settings page are now enabled by default for all users.

Some new features for this release may be enabled or disabled through the Workspace Settings page.

See Workspace Settings Page.

Release 6.0

Initial release of the Workspace Settings page. See below for configuration mapping.

Configuration Mapping

The following mapping between old trifacta-conf.json settings and new Workspace settings is accurate for the current release.