Publish to Tableau Server Tool (deprecated)

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This tool is not part of installers since 2023.2 release. We recommend to migrate your workflow to use Tableau Output. In case you need to use this tool, follow this guide. 

 

The Publish to Tableau Server tool is deprecated. Install the Tableau Output tool which provides updated features. 

 

Publish to Tableau Server Tool Help Page

Use the Publish to Tableau Server Tool to publish data to Tableau Server and Tableau Online from Alteryx Designer.

Current version

Publish to Tableau Server Install v2.3.0

• Added new option to use Personal Access Token to authenticate
• Requires Alteryx 2019.4 or later

• Known issue: does not work if AMP is enabled

Previous versions

Publish to Tableau Server Install v2.0.0 – Alteryx version 2018.2 or 2018.3 and Tableau Server 10.5 ...

• As of 2018.4, the tool comes pre-installed, and will contain future updates.

• Attach a .tds file for data source metadata. Requires Alteryx version 2018.2 or 2018.3, and Tableau Server 10.5 or newer.

Publish to Tableau Server Install v1.09.2 – Alteryx version 2018.1 and Tableau Server 10.5 and newer

• Support for Tableau Hyper. Fixed path issue. Field validation update. Requires Alteryx version 2018.1 and Tableau Server 10.5 or newer.

Publish to Tableau Server Install v1.08.1 – Alteryx version 10.5 and Tableau Server 9.0.1 - 10.3

• Compatible with Alteryx version 10.5-11.8 and Tableau Server 9.01-10.3.

This tool uses a .yxi file format. A .yxi file is a package that includes an Alteryx Tool and all of its dependencies zipped into a single file. When this file is imported into Alteryx, the tool is added to the tool palette in the category specified by the tool.

When sharing a workflow that uses a .yxi tool, the tool is not included and must be installed by the recipient.

[Aguisande]

Please, don't deprecate this tool. The new one (Tableau Output) is extremely slow, doesn't provide enough info on the upload process, and has no output anchor with the results.

Besides, when you select Disable all tools that Write Output from the Runtime workflow configuration, the new one is not disabled, causing the users a potential risk of overwriting existing data sources.

[NicolasSz]

Hi @Aguisande ,

I was going to evaluate a switch to the new Tableau Output tool but given your feedback and a lot of people comment on the Tableau Output page, I'm now really scared about this.

On our side we have our own macro at the moment since we are using PAT and this was not supported by Alteryx at the time we developed it.

We are keen to move to Tableau Output in the future as we would like to leverage DCM for all sort of authentication stored in tools..

Thanks

[msmith6986]

It is extremely frustrating when a "new" version of a tool takes so many steps backwards.  Extremely slow performance, no info on the upload process, and no output anchor with the results are three HUGE drawbacks.  It does handle PATs which I need, but it broke so many workflows in many other ways.  SMH.