Tableau

tableau (gabilew variant)

A modern, enterprise-ready business intelligence tool.

The tableau utility is used to trigger a refresh of a Tableau data source once the data has been updated. Usually this is run in a pipeline following a transformation (i.e. dbt) step that altered the data that Tableau is connected to.

EDK Based Plugin

This utility is based on the Meltano Extension Developer Kit (EDK) which is the preferred way to build and add non-Singer plugins to Meltano Hub. For more information about the EDK, please read this section of the Meltano docs. If you have any feedback or suggestions, add them to the EDK repo.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

If you haven't already, follow the initial steps of the Getting Started guide:

  1. Install Meltano
  2. Create your Meltano project

Installation and configuration

  1. Add the tableau utility to your project using
    meltano add
    :
  2. meltano add utility tableau
  3. Configure the tableau settings using
    meltano config
    :
  4. meltano config tableau set --interactive

Next steps

  1. For username/password auth you can skip this step but for API token auth you will need to generate an API token on your Tableau server to authenticate any requests: Tableau API Auth Docs

If you run into any issues, learn how to get help.

Capabilities

This plugin currently has no capabilities defined. If you know the capabilities required by this plugin, please contribute!

Settings

The tableau settings that are known to Meltano are documented below. To quickly find the setting you're looking for, click on any setting name from the list:

You can also list these settings using

meltano config
with the list subcommand:

meltano config tableau list

You can override these settings or specify additional ones in your meltano.yml by adding the settings key.

Please consider adding any settings you have defined locally to this definition on MeltanoHub by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the settings for this plugin.

Tableau API Version (API_VERSION)

  • Environment variable: TABLEAU_API_VERSION
  • Default Value: 3.18

The API version to be used.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tableau set API_VERSION [value]

Tableau Base Url (BASE_URL)

  • Environment variable: TABLEAU_BASE_URL

Base URL for the Tableau server you are trying to reach.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tableau set BASE_URL [value]

Datasource LUID (DATASOURCE_LUID)

  • Environment variable: TABLEAU_DATASOURCE_LUID

LUID of the Tableau datasource


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tableau set DATASOURCE_LUID [value]

Password (PASSWORD)

  • Environment variable: TABLEAU_PASSWORD

Tableau account password.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tableau set PASSWORD [value]

Tableau Site ID (SITE_ID)

  • Environment variable: TABLEAU_SITE_ID

The site ID for the hosted Tableau instance.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tableau set SITE_ID [value]

Token Name (TOKEN_NAME)

  • Environment variable: TABLEAU_TOKEN_NAME

Personal token name generated on the Tableau site.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tableau set TOKEN_NAME [value]

Token Secret (TOKEN_SECRET)

  • Environment variable: TABLEAU_TOKEN_SECRET

Personal token secret generated on the Tableau site.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tableau set TOKEN_SECRET [value]

Username (USERNAME)

  • Environment variable: TABLEAU_USERNAME

Tableau account username.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tableau set USERNAME [value]

Commands

The tableau utility supports the following commands that can be used with
meltano invoke
:

refresh

  • Equivalent to: refresh

Refresh a Tableau datasource.

meltano invoke tableau:refresh [args...]

Something missing?

This page is generated from a YAML file that you can contribute changes to.

Edit it on GitHub!

Looking for help?

If you're having trouble getting the tableau utility to work, look for an existing issue in its repository, file a new issue, or join the Meltano Slack community and ask for help in the
#plugins-general
channel.

Install

meltano add utility tableau

Maintenance Status

  • Maintenance Status

Repo

https://github.com/gabilew/tableau-ext
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EDK Extension Repo

https://github.com/gabilew/tableau-ext

Maintainer

  • gabilew

Keywords

  • analysismeltano_edk