What's New in Designer

To modernize the update experience and reduce IT overhead, Alteryx has decoupled Designer and Server updates. This change allows you to upgrade Designer independently from Server, so users can immediately access the latest Designer features without waiting for Server approval or environment upgrades. This improvement streamlines adoption, accelerates access to new functionality, and reduces delays—especially for organizations with lengthy Server update cycles.

With this enhancement, assets built in newer versions of Designer are no longer blocked from being published to older Server environments. Instead of a blocking error, users will now see a warning and can choose whether to proceed, empowering teams with more flexibility while reducing workflow disruptions.

For important details (including potential limitations) and ongoing updates, go to Designer Server Version Compatibility.

Over the past several releases, we’ve continued to build exciting new capabilities on the AMP engine. AMP delivers significant performance benefits and powers many of our newest features, including AMP-only tools like GenAI, Control Container, Rank, and Data Cleanse Pro. New workflows now use AMP by default, and new connectors are also AMP-only.

Today, AMP is where innovation in Designer is happening. As we look ahead, we’re investing in AMP as the strategic engine for Alteryx One. Going forward, we will focus our innovations, development, and improvements on the AMP engine. Rest assured, the original Engine will still receive critical fixes until AMP adoption and migration are complete.

We are committed to investing in AMP as our primary Engine. To take advantage of what’s next, we encourage you to begin your transition today. We’re committed to supporting you every step of the way.

We have removed these tools from the Laboratory tool category:

These tools were experimental and not officially supported by Alteryx.

We have updated the Designer user interface for Basic users and Full users who don't have access to certain add-ons. Full and Basic users can now clearly identify which settings and options they have access to based on their user type. As part of these updates, the Designer main menus, User Settings, and Workflow Configuration settings have been updated.

With the launch of Alteryx One, we’ve updated product download links accessible via Designer. These include links for Designer Downloads, Download Predictive Tools, and the download links available via alerts (when a new version of a product is available). Users will land on the correct licensing portal based on their license type (Alteryx Licensing Portal or new Alteryx One licensing).

We have replaced instances of “Alteryx Analytics Cloud Platform” (or variations) with “Alteryx One Platform”.

Additionally, we have made several UI updates to the dialog windows in Designer. These updates offer a more polished, accessible, and consistent experience across Alteryx products.

We have enhanced Cloud Links in Alteryx Designer to support Python SDK tools, enabling smoother integration and more efficient workflows. By introducing Active Link management and SDK access controls, we have simplified the process of connecting to Alteryx Cloud. This ensures a consistent and reliable experience while allowing you to focus on data-driven tasks.

As a new user, you can set up your Active Link via the Cloud Link Wizard during onboarding, or at your first use of a cloud feature, if onboarding is skipped. You can change the Active Link anytime in Designer. To learn more, go to Active Links.

We have made a number of UI updates and several improvements to the Marketplace Add-Ons experience in Designer:

We have introduced robust error suppression within Control Containers. Use this to prevent workflow failures due to localized issues, enable visibility into captured errors, and create intelligent routing logic.

With error suppression, fewer workflows fail unexpectedly, less manual effort is needed to rerun or patch jobs due to transient or expected issues, Server admins don’t need to sift through noisy logs to find meaningful problems, and teams can automate more complex logic (for example, retries, conditionals) without external scripting. For details, go to Control Container Tool.

We have increased the email attachment limit to 25 MB (previously 10 MB). The increased limit applies to the Email tool and Email Events (Workflow Configuration > Events). Note that if you attempt to send an email with an attachment greater than 25 MB, you will receive an error message.

Additionally, when using an SMTP server, Alteryx now returns an appropriate error message if your server returns the "exceeded size limit" response code. This can happen when the whole email message (the message itself and all the attachments) exceeds the limit set on the server. This limit is usually 25 MB, but it can vary. If this happens, Alteryx displays this message:

"Email not sent: Exceeded message size limit or recipient's mailbox is full. Remove large attachments and try again."

We have enhanced the user interface and user experience of the Data Cleanse Pro tool to make it easier to understand, configure, and use. These updates include enhancements to the user experience in the "Replace String Columns" and "Replace Numeric Columns" sections, prevention of pasting invalid characters into configuration fields, and updates to the default selections in the tool configuration.

We've updated the Count Distinct aggregation methods added to the Cross Tab tool in the 2025.1 release. This aggregation method is now supported for all data types.

We have added support for stored procedures via the Pre-SQL and Post-SQL statement functionality introduced in the 2025.1 release. This enhancement provides greater flexibility when working with In-DB tools. You can leverage stored procedures for tasks like data validation, logging, or cleanup operations—eliminating the need for external scripts. Stored procedure support is available via the Data Stream In, Data Stream Out, and Write Data In-DB tools.

We have removed 2 AMP-only options that are no longer necessary from the Input Data tool (Allow Newlines in Quoted Fields and Force Single-threaded Reading). These operations are now handled automatically, whereas previously they required manual configuration to read CSV files correctly with the AMP engine. Note that in existing workflows these settings will be silently ignored.

We have added new functionality in Designer to let you group tool connections together, which improves workflow readability, documentation, and organization. Tool Connection Staples make it easier to track data flows, onboard to workflows, and debug them, if needed. To learn more, go to Build Workflows.

We have implemented double-click actions for key tools to help you inspect data and workflow logic quickly, reducing context switching and unnecessary clicks. Double-click actions are now available for these tools:

With the 2025.2 release, the proxy authentication updates introduced as a public preview in 2024.2 are now the default proxy configuration method in Designer. If you upgrade to 2025.2, please note that your existing basic auth proxy settings will continue to work, while new Designer installs use the new proxy authentication settings. For more information, go to Proxy Settings.

We have added Dark Mode compatibility to a number of additional tool configuration windows, as well as the expression editor. We have also resolved several minor UI defects in dark mode to deliver a visually consistent and accessible experience for those who rely on this theme.

Show HTML Developer Tools was moved from the Options > Advanced Options menu to an Alteryx debugging suite/menu.

Added an option to the PDF to Text tool to process a specific range of pages within a PDF. Use this option to improve performance and reduce memory usage when working with large or complex PDFs.

GenAI tools are now available for Full Users on Professional and Enterprise Editions. Learn more about Alteryx Editions.

The GenAI tools are now installed with Designer Desktop 2025.2 and newer, so you don’t need to install them separately. To get started, download and install Designer Desktop 2025.2 from Alteryx One.

The GenAI-assisted tools remain in Public Preview. They might have known issues, might not include all intended features, and are subject to change without notice.