Publish to Tableau Server Tool - Error when tds file is attached

Could you elaborate on what you mean by attaching the tds file? Can you share your workflow? The Publish to Tableau Server tool does a POST request to the Tableau Server's REST API. Since you're getting a response from the Tableau REST API with an error, I did a quick search of that "400011" error to find out more.

Tableau explains it as: "The data source could not be published for some other reason than those specified earlier." https://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/api/rest_api/en-us/help.htm#REST/rest_api_ref.htm#Publish_Workbook%3FTocPath%3DAPI%2520Reference|_____31

According to this user's experience with Tableau's API -- https://tableauandbehold.com/2015/08/06/tableau-rest-api-400-error-response-code-400011/ -- There are specific instances where this error will occur and possible solutions:

Publishing a TWB for a workbook that references external files (TDEs, XLSX, etc). Solutions:
1. Re-save as a TWBX and publish the TWBX
2. Publish your datasource to data server first, and connect the workbook to that datasource on data server
Publishing a TWB that references a data server source that doesn’t exist on that Site. Per the previous post on the topic, you can publish a TWB that connects to a data server source with the same name on a different site. But if you haven’t published the data source first, expect 400011 to be your fate
Publishing a TWB that references a data server source that published correctly, but didn’t embed credentials that are necessary. This may seem strange, but Tableau Server generates thumbnails for each worksheet at publish time, so if it can’t verify the server connection because it lacks credentials, then you’ll get a friendly 400011 response code as a reminder. Side Note: If you ever see your publish times take a long time, it is probably held up on generating the thumbnails, and it is a sign that your databoards are going to be miserably slow when people view them as well. Stop showing so much unfiltered data without doing some guided analytics first.

^ These steps are pretty specific use cases to Tableau, not Alteryx, if none of that helps is it possible for you to output to a .tde, open tableau, and publishing your data source?

frankieum

Thank you so much for your reply!

Please find this screenshot. I used the new Publish to Tableau Server tool to publish a hyper file and used the option in the blue box to attach a tds file. Alteryx Publish Error.PNG

byarsmc79

I found out that my issue had to do with my time fields. Tableau did not like them. I turned them to string fields and it worked just fine.

To find the issue, I clicked on the hyper file link in the Alteryx results pane. That opened the file in Tableau which errored stating that the specific field is not recognized by Tableau.

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