Drag and Drop to KNIME Explorer for csv files

[Felix_Hagemann]

Hi,

I’m using KNIME Analytics Platform 4.5.2 on Windows 10.
Moving data files close to my workflows is easily done by drag and drop from a Windows Explorer. Unfortunately this does work for “xlsx” and “table” files, but not for “csv”. Could this be extended to allow “csv” as well?

Thanks,
Felix

[ScottF]

Hi there @Felix_Hagemann and welcome to the forum.

I’m on the same KNIME AP version and OS as you, and I’m not able to reproduce the problem so far. I’ve tried dragging a CSV file to the empty canvas, which creates a CSV Reader and opens its configuration. I’m also able to drag a CSV file to the KNIME Explorer to store it as part of a workflow group.

Do you get an error in the console when you try to do this? Can you perhaps post a screenshot or even an animated GIF of what happens on your side?

[Felix_Hagemann]

Hi Scott,

dragging CSV files to the canvas (creating a Reader node) always worked for me. A colleague suggested to try to drag into a folder on our KNIME Server instance, which (much to my suprise) worked. And after that dragging to a folder in my local workspace worked as well.
So, even though this was bugging me for weeks, I cannot reproduce any more. Sorry for the noise!