CANCELLED: Publish to Tableau Macro stopped working

mscuaycong

Hello -

I've been using the Publish to Tableau Server macro for months with no issues (1.04).  I've already upgraded to Alteryx 11.0 and the publishing has been working fine... until this morning.  I did change my enterprise password last week so I thought it had to do with passwords.  However, I was able to publish after I changed it then.

System:  Alteryx  11.0.5.26351, 64-bit

Tableau Server:  supports Tableau 9.2

So far, here are the actions I've taken:

1) ensured that my password did not contain ANY special characters

2) my current password is 15 chars long so I tried using an 8-char password

3) I've downloaded the latest version of the tool (1.08)

4) Checked with our IT server support and nothing has changed since last week - am able to go to the Tableau Server directly and publish workbooks from Tableau Desktop using the same credentials as used in the Publish to Tableau tool.

Error message:

Error: Publish to Tableau Server (9): TableauServer.Login: Tool #4: Tableau Server API Request (Sign-in) Error Code 401001: Signin Error -- Error signing in to Tableau Server

Any suggestions?

mscuaycong

Turns out that the initial time that the publish failed was from an unknown reason. However, I took it to mean that I had changed my enterprise password the weekend before and that was the reason for Monday's fail.  So, I subsequently changed the password to the server (in the tool) to reflect the new password but that still failed.  What I FORGOT was that our Tableau Server was integrated with our Enterprise Security; instead it uses SAML and we just use a generic password to get in.  I muddled 2 different issues together.  Works now with the generic password, while the original fail is still unknown but I'll chuck that up to the occasional system quirk (for now, anyway).