No longer will you need to employ crazy hacks or manually update your date parameters. This extension allows you to refresh any date parameter to today's date whenever a workbook is opened.
See the Tableau Help topic Use Dashboard Extensions for directions. When presented with the list of available Dashboard Extensions, search for Date Updater to find and install this one.
If you want to use a locally-built version of this extension or if you want to make any of your own changes, follow these steps:
extension-date-updater-master
folder and run yarn
to install the node modules.homepage
in the package.json
file to the server where you are going to host the extension. For example:
"homepage": "http://localhost:8080",
yarn build
to build the extension with the new homepage. Note, you can update the package.json
file to just run react-scripts build
, the rest is just to move the folders around. If you do this, look for the build
folder in the next step.docs
to your web server at the path you specified in Step 3./#/dateupdate
at the end. For example: http://localhost:8080/#/dateupdate
.Tableau customers can contact the Tableau Support team for help.
For any local build or code related questions, please post to the Issues tab here for community support.