With the multi instance wizard pre 8.3 you had the ability to create multiple instances that did not follow a set pattern by separating with with commas. Has this functionality been lost with 8.3? If I am overlooking something please let me know, but if that is the case it feels like a downgrade to the tool.
It looks like this was a use case that we didn't cover, unfortunately. You can provide an arbitrary list of values for a parameter, but not for the actual base UDT instance names. I'll get a ticket filed internally - the remake of this system is a lot more pluggable so this should be a pretty easy lift.
If you cannot wait, you might find my Spreadsheet Import Tool helpful:
(I don't ever use the designer's multi-instance wizard.)
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100% agree.
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To be fair (this edge case aside) it got a lot better in 8.3 
May be worth a second look for smaller use cases. Granted it's not going to end up as ultimately flexible as Phil's tool.
Thank you! I just noticed since that was a use case that we used a lot within our company. I appreciate the response.
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Agreed! I like what I have seen so far in the last two weeks since I went to 8.3. This was just something I ran across. Thanks for all IA does!
Just came searching to see if anyone else had mentioned this regression. I use the multi-instance wizard for this exact case more than I do for actually creating sequential tags. I have a lot of tags that don't follow a pattern, but when I need to create 4-5 tags of the same type this was always the fastest way to just put in the prefix for my tags then use the comma separated suffixes for the pattern to generate the ones I needed.
No further movement on it internally - it's going to get added, but no timeline on when.