search

Airtable-Labs / airtable-tableau-wdc

A Tableau Web Data Connector to import records from an Airtable base into Tableau
MIT License
7 stars 2 forks source link

Add documentation for Tableau Cloud #13

Open palewire opened 1 year ago

palewire commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The examples here don't show how to install a web connector with Tableau Cloud, the hosted product.

Describe the solution you'd like I'd like, if nothing else, a yes or no answer to the question: Can WDC's and this repo be used with Tableau Cloud. If the answer is yes, it would be great to include an example showing how to use it.

marks commented 1 year ago

Hi @palewire - thanks for filing a request.

To the best of my knowledge, you cannot initiate or refresh an extract powered by a Web Data Connector in Tableau Cloud's web UI. Based on my research, you can create the extract and workbooks with Tableau Desktop and then publish the data source/workbook to Tableau Cloud however Tableau Cloud will not be able to refresh that extract without the use of Tableau Bridge: [source]

When you publish to Tableau Cloud, as a security measure, Tableau Cloud can't connect to or refresh an extract created by a web data connector. To refresh some web data connector extracts, you can use Tableau Bridge. For more information, see When to use Tableau Bridge to keep data fresh(Link opens in a new window) in the Tableau Cloud Help.

All that being said, thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will leave this issue open until we improve the documentation in this repo to address Tableau Cloud by name.