Known issues

When publishing or accessing a Tableau Online view that used the TableauServerUser variable with Tableau Bridge, a "Cannot evaluate user filter" or "Unable to connect to the server" error occurred.

When signing into Tableau Online from Tableau Desktop 2021.1 and picking a site, the error would display, "Site needed".

With Tableau Desktop 2021.1, some visualization text would appear blurry on certain screen resolutions.

Published workbooks with a NOW() calculation would sometimes not display the correct "Site Time Zone for Extracts" setting.

When an alert is created on a MySQL data source, an error could result when using web authoring stating , "Unable to create alert because there was an error connecting to the data source."

When an additional data source is added using web edit, there is no prompt for credentials.

East Asian characters have the wrong orientation for rotated header labels and axis tick labels.

The text wrap does not display correctly including words being truncated and moved to the next line.

In version 2021.1, the background color of some tables changed causing the text to become unreadable.

In 2021.1, the ability to add or modify a site logo is no longer available.

The fiscal year start month was reset after publishing to Tableau Online or Tableau Server 2021.1.

With some versions of Tableau Prep Builder, the registration prompt would occur with every launch of Tableau Prep Builder even when Tableau Desktop registration had already been completed.

After an upgrade to 2020.3, loading a view containing a published extract could fail to load with the error, "Could not find Hyper hosts to connect to. Unable to connect to the Tableau Data Extract server. Check that the server is running and that you have access privileges to the requested database."

Connecting to some Web Data Connectors from Tableau Desktop 2019.4 resulted in an error "The web data connector returned invalid data. Error Code: 95BE3012"

Workbooks using Oauth connections published with "prompt credentials" sometimes failed to publish with an "Internal Server Error TableauException" error.

While executing a query in Impala the error "The table .... does not exist" may occur when refreshing view or setting filters.

Worksheets containing a Boolean filter from a Snowflake data source change after publishing and show incorrect data.

Sometimes, temp files generated by Tableau Bridge continued to increase over time and were not cleared out as expected.

Tableau Online admin views sometimes took a long time to load, or eventually timed out.

When a scheduled extract refresh of a Quickbooks Online data source runs on Tableau Online, the following error occurs intermittently: "Intuit API Authentication error: Invalid authentication tokens. Login again and retry."

In Tableau Prep Builder, sometimes bigint data was rounded incorrectly.

String values with capital letters are treated inconsistently in out-of-sample values.

New option to Preview data based on refresh type (Full or Incremental) to accommodate new, potentially different, write options users can specify, is non-functional in Tableau Prep 2020.2.1.

In the new feature for 2020.3.1 called Write to Database, if the database or schema does not have any tables (it is empty), navigating to the schema or database will not be possible. The schema needs to have at least one table created to be visible for selection.

Tableau Desktop was not persisting the authentication cookie in some cases with the WDC connector starting in 2020.2.2. The updated version of the WDC javascript library will need to be used in addition to the WDC making a call to the tableau.enableCookiePersistence() to enable cookie persistence in the Desktop session.

In some cases, the data type of a specific column was not being recognized correctly.

An error would sometimes occur when connecting to a SAP HANA table. The error would display, "Internal Error - An unexpected error occurred and the operation could not be completed. Error Code: 6EA18A9E".

It would not be possible to disable the "Allow Pan and Zoom" option when using a background image.

When a live connection to Oracle and context filters are used, the following error could occur:
"Oracle database error 1652: ORA-01652: unable to extend temp segment by 128 in tablespace TEMP".

After the upgrade to 2021.1 and over 100 groups are created, the "Show only assigned groups" will not show all groups.

Tableau Server 2020.4.+ did not install the Postgres JDBC driver by default.

Despite guest access enabled on the server and sites, logged-in Tableau Server users were redirected to an error view when using share links without embed=y for sites where they are not listed as users.

When the Guest user is not enabled on the Default site, on a secondary site, a filter selection containing a large number of values could cause the view to become unresponsive.

When the Run As User was changed from a domain account to the local NT Authority/NetworkService account, Tableau Server would be degraded.

When an already renamed field is renamed on the input node, a compilation error on the downstream aggregate node would appear.

There would be no prompt to select a certificate when more than one valid client SSL certificate existed.

The data connection window scroll bar would sometimes flash after the DPI or window size was altered.

On the start page, the script icon would display instead of the prediction icon on the thumbnail view of the Predictions flow.

Search results could be incorrect in the input step after hiding fields.

Customizations made to metrics using the Adjust and Compare functionality are no longer persistent. The metric comparison value and date range will revert to default when you leave the metric details view.

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When the connected client option was disabled for a site, the Bridge client could no longer log into the site.

Refreshing JDBC based data sources would intermittently fail.

A memory corruption issue would sometimes occur when the Bridge client encountered a problem connecting to the Tableau Online server.

When publishing from Desktop 2020.3.6, 2020.3.7, 2020.4.2 or 2020.4.3, the error, "Internal server error. NumberFormatException", could display when an attempt was made to publish a workbook with a data source set to "publish separately".

The published data source list could be empty from Tableau Desktop when Tableau Server was behind an authenticated reverse proxy.

Slow performance and "deadline exceeded" errors could occur for queries or extracts using the Postgres JDBC connector in Tableau products starting with 2020.4.1.

Data source connection error messages could be obscure when connecting to PostgreSQL and a proxy server was used.

In the TSM user interface starting with version 2019.1.26, if a change was made to the SMTP password or the External SSL setting, not all pending changes would be discarded.

When the "tsm maintenance ziplogs" command was run with the -a flag, the msinfo and netstat files were not contained.

Tableau Server would sometimes not display the licenses on the Manage All Sites > Settings > Licenses page. TSM does show the correct product keys activated and the user seat count on Tableau Server is correct.

A published workbook with tabs that contains one live SAP HANA connection configured to prompt for a variable or parameter, would incorrectly prompt in a dashboard not requiring the prompt.

A new option was added to TSM which should be used when the External FIlestore and External Repository are enabled. The snapshot-backup prepare command (tsm maintenance snapshot-backup prepare) will now allow for an additional flag (--include-pg-backup) to ensure that when Tableau Server is upgraded to 2021.1 or higher, the repository backup is included in the snapshot backup.

Internet Communication Error would sometimes occur when a workbook was published via Tabcmd and the initial node of an HA installation was not available.

When accessing an embedded view, a 500 error on /sidecar/scripts.js would be shown in the browser console.

An upgrade to 2020.4+ from 2020.3.x with the Server Management Add-On and with the external file store enabled, could fail at the BackupRepositoryOperation step. The solution will be to upgrade from 2020.3.x to 2020.3.8 then upgrade to 2020.4 or higher.

With a core-based and role-based license activated together on Tableau Server, an error could display when adjusting the Site Role Limit for Creators or Viewers. The error would display for a Creator user adjustment, "Set a limit larger than the current number of Creator users".

When date fields used on a published view have been formatted for the ISO calendar and then a new selection was made on a relative date filter on this published view, the following error would display, "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'last' of undefined."

The "Last update" column would not sort properly in the Tasks menu option.

In some cases, a previous installation of RMT followed by an uninstall, could block a future installation.

In some scenarios, the Tableau Resource Monitoring Tool could not detect custom, local HTTPS certificates and would fall back to leverage the default certificate for encryption.

Queries could sometimes return incorrect results after tuples at the end of a table were deleted.

When a trial had started, it was not possible to use Login-base License Management (LBLM) to activate.

When running a Prep flow through the Prep Command Line Interface (CLI) that included extraneous characters in the credentials JSON file, the flow would fail with a "null" error.

In version 2020.4.1, it was not possible to open a flow containing an input step that used a wildcard union and where the original input file was missing.

Error, "Connection exception" could occur when running a flow.

When the "ACTIVATIONSERVER" was configured during installation, Tableau Prep would not display the URL in the LBLM activation window.

When a flow is published to Tableau Online with the same input connections names, the flow output would result in the wrong data.