Publish Tableau Workbook to Tableau Server

I am wondering if anyone knows how to publish or update an existing a Tableau Workbook to Tableau Server? I can write a .tde directly to server, but cannot find a solution to publish/update a workbook. Any recommendations and/or help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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fain-m

AndrewKim,

Thank you for your reponse. I appreciate the help. I actually figured out this issue, it was a lot easier than anticipated. I published the .tde file to Tableau Server and then opened my tableau dashboard which was sitting on my desktop and not the server. In Tableau I connected to a new data source, which was the .tde file that I published from Alteryx. Lastly, I replaced the existing data source with the .tde file from server and then published the dashboard to Tableau Server. Now everytime I run the workflow within Alteryx and publish the .tde file to the server my dashboard updates.

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MarqueeCrew

http://help.alteryx.com/10.5/index.htm#Macro-TableauServerPublish.htm?Highlight=Tableau

there is a tool available for download from the gallery that was made for you.

fain-m

MarqueeCrew-

I actually been using this macro, but from my understanding it only publishes .tde file. Am I missing something?

The goal is to publish a workbook or an existing workbook to the server. Do you know if that's possible?

fain-m

Yes, I've done this and it's great. But those are new workbooks that I would create using the .tde file not existing, right? I am trying to publish an existing dashboard using the .tde file. We currently have several dashboards that are already built and I would like to somehow use the extract or another method (if available) and publish them to the server. Does this make sense? If it doesn't, let me know and I will clarify.

andrewdatakim

Hi Fain-M,

I am thinking there is some miscommunication it almost sounds like you are trying to publish a .twb or a .twbx, so a workbook or packaged workbook. If this is what you are looking for you can publish these but you need to use tabcmd. Tabcmd can be run in Alteryx using the "Run Command" tool, but you will need to install tabcmd on your computer which you either need to get from your server or go to a third party site to get (I think The Information Lab has it on there site). The documentation for tabcmd can be found here: http://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/tabcmd_cmd.htm .Tde files are only the data source for the Tableau workbook. If you are trying to update these you can use the "overwrite" option within the Publish to Tableau server tool and that will update the data source.

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