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.

After selecting Ask Data, an error would sometimes occur when connected to a large data source, "Encountered the following error and now waiting to retrying indexing: Can't index data due to a system error."

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

Tableau Online would sometimes attempt to create indexes on Snowflake temp tables.

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."

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.

The 2020.4.1 installer will show a new option in the "Install customizations" to select the option for the ability to "check for product updates". This option is for future functionality and currently does not work.

When loading a step, a message would sometimes display to report, "No fields to display", before displaying the fields or data grid.

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."

Multiple crash dump folders could be created per day for VizQL or Backgrounder where all call stacks would contain the method DataValue::SetString(Collation const&, char16_t const*).

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.

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.

Node became unlicensed when moving the license service to another node in multi-node server environment

The TSM command, "TSM security regenerate-internal-tokens" would not work in 2020.3.6.

App configuration support without an enrollment scenario was added (iOS).

The Recommended refresh showed a failure in the Jobs view with a read time out starting with 2020.4.1.

In the Dashboard menu, the "Title" and "Caption" were not translated correctly for zh-CN.

A string calculation that is used for a search filter could produce inconsistent results after an upgrade of the product.

Korean characters would display as black boxes in a Japanese Windows system.

Aggregation of a calculated field could show incorrect results when another measure was added or removed from the Measure Values card starting with 2020.2.

Opening some WDC connectors could cause a Tableau Desktop crash.

An upgrade or installation would fail if the log location used a non-default location not available to all nodes in a cluster.

Issues related to product usage data, including the connectToUsage event, have been completed.

Descriptions from table columns would not always display in the Data Details when there is a Flow in the lineage.

Data server processes could show unavailable and Ask Data was in an error state after an upgrade.

When configured for SAML authentication and the username in the SAML response contained special characters, users could not sign into Tableau Server.

The conditional launch dialog was not properly sized (Android).

It is now possible to reorder favorites on the Tableau Mobile app.

Embedded content was not being displayed in visualizations after upgrading to iOS 14.

Updated to SDK 14.1.

Network/server errors would occur when the web-socket connection was switched.

ESRI Arcgis extract refresh produced null data when Bridge was running in Service Mode.

When a data source is republished with an added data connection, the existing data source would not contain the latest update and fail to extract.

Error fixed for unsupported data connections.

Fixed the error that would sometimes occur when exiting the Bridge client.

An error would sometimes occur when a job process was finished and exiting.

An error would sometimes occur when the Bridge had multiple connections to the server.

Error “collation mismatch, use COLLATE statements to resolve Code: 3834CEBA” could occur with a live connection to SAP HANA.

A worksheet within a dashboard would appear blank if a parameter that limits data is increased to allow records to more than 300,000.

Error Code F5328B32 could occur when the SPLIT function was used on joined CSV files in a relationship.

"Error: function max(uuid) does not exist; Error while executing the query" could result when running a query against the Tableau PostgreSQL database with data blending.

Starting with version 2020.4.0, the second page of an exported landscape PDF could be zoomed in to not match the scale of the first page.

A refresh extract of a data source with same name as another data source except with a different case (upper vs lower) would fail showing "Unable to complete action."

Non-current content downloads using the REST API could fail periodically.

The error could occur, "Unexpected Error: Object doesn't support property of method 'blur' " when a custom view was saved in an iframe web portal embedded view with Internet Explorer.

The Vizqlserver process could crash frequently but recover automatically creating large crash dump files with some live data source connections.

Tableau Server enabled with Azure Database as the external repository could fail to initialize if Postgres 12.4 on Azure Postgres Flexible Server public preview was used. The error would display with "Error: Must be superuser to create superusers" or "Error: Must be superuser to change bypassrls attribute."

With Tableau Server 2020.4.0 on Linux Debian 9 (.deb installer), the initialization fails while finalizing the topology after a successful activation and registration. The initialization is terminated at step 31 of 35 with the error "Finalizing the topology failed." The Debian version does not correctly install on Debian 9. Ubuntu is unaffected

The message "Cannot read property 'get_toolbarCommands' of null", could be received starting in 2020.4.0 when switching to a tab that contains a text object.

Error "System error: Unable to run input step: Failure evaluating to database: An unknown error related to remote content was detected (500)" could be received when running a flow on Tableau Server.

Credentials and connection information could be blank when editing a published JDBC data source.

The 2020.4 Debian (.deb) build of the Resource Monitoring Tool requires a on-time command to be executed before an upgrade to 2020.4.1 can take place. The 2020.4.1 upgrade documentation includes details on this upgrade process.

In 2020.4 only, duplicated database rows could occur which provided unexpected data results and timeouts in the user interface. Duplicated rows of data are removed during the upgrade process to 2020.4.1.

In some cases, the SMTP configuration settings in the Tableau Resource Monitoring Tool user interface would remove fields when configuration settings were saved. This did not affect the actual configurations, but was a display error in the user interface.

The Java getShort() method would return an integer.