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Drop-down picklist instead of free text entry for re-usable workflows
What problem are you facing? Currently re-usable workflows allow a free text input option, which suggests most recent entries. The value entered will be used in processing within the workflow, often relating to fields/data to use for matching etc. This leaves risk of error, if the user enters a typo, which could result in…
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How to specify parameters for embedded workflows outside parent workflow?
Hello, I'm designing a re-usable workflow (parent = test for community), which uses another re-usable workflow (child = Dynamic Flag). The child workflow requires two inputs specified at runtime - "source A" and "source B". I want to be able to choose the values for "source A" and "source B" when dragging the parent onto…
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Error Encountered While Executing Workflow
I am attempting to manually execute a recently created workflow, but I am encountering an error. The message states that 'source 1' and 'source 2' must be provided to run the workflow, despite all my data coming from a view. I am unsure about the specific requirements it is asking for. Could someone please shed light on…
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Best practices designing complex Workflows
A Workflow is a sequence of steps that defines a process to transform and manipulate your data. When a single Workflow tries to tackle too many actions it can become difficult to read, understand and manage: If you are designing a Workflow alone this might be fine, but if you are collaborating or planning to have others…
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Performance decrease since upgrade to version 2.6
I have experienced significant performance decrease since I upgraded Aperture from 2.4.9 to 2.6.0. The average execution time of my main workflow moved from around 1 minute to 2 minutes. Thanks to the new execution log diagram I realized that the bottle neck is the execution of a couple of embedded workflows that are…
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Error with resuable workflow step in new workflow
Hi, I have created a workflow that produces an output and has been made reuseable. This workflow is then used as the start of a second workflow and previously the second workflow has run correctly. However now the second workflow is causing errors and when i click to see output of the first workflow within the second…
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Profiling many datasets of different schemas
To profile thousands of datasets easily, you can create a reusable workflow with a replaceable source. However, if each of the datasets have a different schema, you will have to determine what is the most number of columns a dataset can have and use a generic schema with generic column names in your workflow. Assuming your…