1 Reply Latest reply on Jan 22, 2015 4:36 AM by Mark Fraser

Tableau displays truncated value of a string(which has 2000 character in length), but when i mouse over the value, it shows the full string. My source is an excel and the values in excel are appearing properly.

Bab Mad Jan 22, 2015 4:18 AM

Tableau displays truncated value of a string(which has 2000 character in length), but when i mouse over the value, it shows the full string. My source is an excel and the values in excel are appearing properly. Could anyone please help me in this regard.

1. Re: Tableau displays truncated value of a string(which has 2000 character in length), but when i mouse over the value, it shows the full string. My source is an excel and the values in excel are appearing properly.

Mark Fraser Jan 22, 2015 4:36 AM (in response to Bab Mad)

Hi Bab

Have you seen these previous discussions and other resources?
Lots of interesting discussion on possible causes with associated workarounds.

https://www.interworks.com/blogs/tmccullough/2013/12/20/displaying-long-text-fields-tableau-excel

Re: Maximum String Length

String value being truncated at 1024 characters

Hope that helps!

Cheers
Mark
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Tableau displays truncated value of a string(which has 2000 character in length), but when i mouse over the value, it shows the full string. My source is an excel and the values in excel are appearing properly.

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