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Have embedded views authenticate sessions instead of just logging in as Guest

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:54:22 GMT

We have some users who are going to the embedded view of a dashboard, without previously being logged in to Tableau Server. As we have Guest enabled in our environment, the session logs in to the embedded dashboard as Guest rather than trying to log the user in as themselves as it would going to the non-embedded view. As Guest does not have access to this particular view, this cause errors for our users. We would rather that Tableau try to log the user in as themselves first, rather than them having to log into Tableau Server and then opening the embedded view in a separate window in the same browser session.

Add display-only attributes from BW

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:18:07 GMT

Currently, BEx queries expose navigational attributes, but not display-only attributes of those navigational attributes. It would be helpful if these attributes could also be accessed without having to go back and change the data source to make them navigational attributes.

Allow Desktop to connect to Data Sources on mulitple Server instances

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:08:59 GMT

It would be nice if I could connect to data sources on multiple instances of Tableau Server (or even multiple Sites). Among other things, this would make it easier to publish a workbook from one Tableau Server instance that connects to a data source on that instance to another Tableau Server instance with a copy of that same data source. Right now I have to download the workbook and a copy of the data source and save them, then close Desktop and re-open them, log on to the new Tableau Server instance, replace the data source with the one from the new instance, and then publish the workbook up.

If I have a concurrent schedule, can I run jobs serially with it?

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:06:04 GMT

For example, if I have schedule set as a concurrent schedule, but I have one task with a priority of 40 and the other with a priority of 50, will the one run before the other or will they both run at the same time anyway?