Basic User Capabilities
With the Basic User role, you have access to Designer Desktop or Designer Cloud. You can create workflows that use the following capabilities, tools, and features.
Basic Prep and Blend Tools
With the Basic User role, you have access to basic prep and blend tools available via Designer Desktop and Designer Cloud*.
*The Professional and Enterprise Editions include both Designer Cloud and Designer Desktop. Basic Users on the Professional Edition have access to either Designer Desktop or Designer Cloud. Basic Users on the Enterprise Edition have access to both Designer Desktop and Designer Cloud.
Tool Category | Tool | Designer Desktop | Designer Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|
Developer | Block Until Done (Designer Desktop) | ✓ | N/A |
Dynamic Input (Designer Desktop) | ✓ | N/A | |
Dynamic Rename (Designer Desktop) Dynamic Rename (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Message (Designer Desktop) | ✓ | N/A | |
Control Container (Designer Desktop) | ✓ | N/A | |
Documentation | Comment (Designer Desktop) | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool Container (Designer Desktop) | ✓ | ✓ | |
In/Out | Text Input (Designer Desktop) Text Input (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ |
Browse (Designer Desktop) | ✓ | N/A | |
Input Data (Designer Desktop) Input Data (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Output Data (Designer Desktop) Output Data (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Directory (Designer Desktop) | ✓ | N/A | |
Join | Append Fields (Designer Desktop) Append Columns (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ |
Find Replace (Designer Desktop) Find Replace (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Join (Designer Desktop) Join (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Union (Designer Desktop) Union (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Join Multiple (Designer Desktop) Join Multiple (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Parse | RegEx (Designer Desktop) RegEx (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ |
DateTime (Designer Desktop) DateTime (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Text to Columns (Designer Desktop) Text to Columns (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Preparation | Generate Rows (Designer Desktop) Generate Rows (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ |
Multi-Field Formula (Designer Desktop) Multi-Column Formula (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Multi-Row Formula (Designer Desktop) Multi-Row Formula (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Unique (Designer Desktop) Unique (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Record ID (Designer Desktop) Row ID (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Filter (Designer Desktop) Filter (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Formula (Designer Desktop) Formula (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Sample (Designer Desktop) Sample (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Select (Designer Desktop) Select (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Sort (Designer Desktop) Sort (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Auto Field (Designer Desktop) Auto Column (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Data Cleanse Pro (Designer Desktop) | ✓ | N/A | |
Transform | Cross Tab (Designer Desktop) Cross Tab (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ |
Running Total (Designer Desktop) Running Total (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Summarize (Designer Desktop) Summarize (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Transpose (Designer Desktop) Transpose (Designer Cloud) | ✓ | ✓ | |
SDK | V1 SDK Tools (Designer Desktop) | ✓ | N/A |
V2 SDK Tools (Designer Desktop) | ✓ | N/A |
Basic Connectivity Tools
Basic Users have access to basic connectivity options (via flat files) available via Designer Desktop and Designer Cloud.
Designer Desktop
In Designer Desktop, nearly all connectors* are available to Basic Users, including access to Data Connection Manager (DCM).
*Note that Marketo Append, Input, and Output tools are not available for Basic Users.
Designer Cloud
The Basic User role has access to these file connectors via Designer Cloud:
ADLS
Amazon S3
Box
Google Cloud Storage
Google Drive (Output)
OneDrive
SharePoint Files
SFTP
Additionally, all file types are supported, for example:
CSV
Excel (XLS, XLSX, XLSM)
JSON
Parquet
TXT
XML
Designer Desktop Basic Tool Palette
Basic Users on the new Professional and Enterprise editions using Designer Desktop can customize their tool palette to display only the tools to which they have access. This option is also available to existing Designer users who upgrade to 2025.1.
To customize the tool palette to display only these tools…
In Designer, select the gear icon associated with the tool palette to open the Configure Tool Palette window. The gear icon is located just below the search bar.
Select the Basic User preset and select OK.
Now, only the tools available to the Basic user role are displayed in the Designer user interface.
New users who install Designer for the first time will have the Basic User preset enabled by default. Users who upgrade to version 25.1 and have chosen a different preset will retain their selected preset; they will not be reverted to the Basic User preset.
Alteryx Copilot
Basic Users have access to Alteryx Copilot via Designer Desktop.
Collaboration Options
Basic Users have access to folders. They can share workflows and view workflows shared with them.
Data Visualization
Basic Users of the Professional and Enterprise Editions get access to Data Visualization capabilities via Auto Insights.
Feature | Access |
|---|---|
Missions (including Magic Documents | Edit |
Reports | Edit |
Datasets | View |
Plans
Basic Users of the Professional and Enterprise Editions have view access to Plans. They can view plans created by other users.
Automation
Basic Users on the Enterprise Edition have access to schedule workflows and can also run other users' workflows.
Analytic Apps
Basic Users on the Enterprise Edition can run Analytic Apps via App Builder.