Tableau Defect In Saleforce Connector

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 19:37:56 GMT

We have some large objects in Salesforce. When we try query these objects, we get an error saying that the query exceeds 10,000 characters. There is a flaw in the Tableau connector that support is now aware of. Although the Salesforce API does limit the query size, other tools are able to query these tables through the API without issue. The way Tableau connects, however is flawed.

The defect in Tableau is even if you select a single field, Tableau still requests ALL fields from the object and therefore still hits the limit. When support says "simply select fewer fields..." they are incorrect because of this defect in the Tableau Salesforce connector. They have not been helpful here and have said they may or may not fix this in a future release.

I am wondering if anyone has found a way around this beside warehousing all the data locally.

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