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Community-built data sources for answering questions about Tableau Server
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Add projects as top-level item type in TS Content? #4

Closed mcoles closed 3 years ago

mcoles commented 5 years ago

Currently TS Content holds a record for every workbook, view, published data source, and flow on Tableau Server. Currently, if you want to know what projects exist and who owns them, you can only see them for non-empty projects. Should we extend this to include a Project item type so that people can answer that question? (note, this is a great use case for the upcoming Data Modeling feature).

mcoles commented 4 years ago

We've had several requests for this at this point, so I think we'll have to bite the bullet and get it done.

My thought is that we add a new item type of project, such that every project that exists on Tableau gets its own new row in the data source, even if we've already got that information in other rows describing workbooks, or data sources. That would be consistent with the pattern for workbooks and views, where we still show individual workbooks, even if we've already described them somewhat in the records we have for views.