Known issues

The Denodo connector sometimes failed to recognise the driver.

Sometimes background formatting changed unexpectedly when upgrading workbooks from 2018.1 to 2018.2 or newer versions.

When using Teradata driver version 16.20 or higher, initial SQL containing command statements failed to execute.

When viewing a sheet which uses forecasting with a fiscal year start date set, sometimes an "Invalid vectorsubscript" error occurred.

When installing or upgrading to a Tableau Desktop or Tableau Prep Builder version released after 1 June 2019 on macOS Catalina, a “‘Tableau Desktop.pkg’ can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.” error occurred. This behaviour is related to the macOS notarisation process.

TabPy secure connections do not work for Tableau Desktop on MacOS. The current method for gathering certificates to perform client side validation in Tableau Desktop requires curl built with OpenSSL while MacOS uses DarwinSSL which does not share the same functionality.

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

When attempting to run a flow that contains many inputs the following error occurs: "Failure evaluating to database: ERROR: collation mismatch, use COLLATE statements to resolve."

When publishing several steps by right clicking "Save Flow As" > "Publish to Server", the publish dialog starts off with the "Saved Steps" tag added to the published flow. However, if the user clicks around in the publish dialog, that tag disappears.

When running a flow of Oracle data that involves a join between two aggregates in Tableau Prep 2019.2.3, it gives the error "Something went wrong and we were unable to process output step: Failure parsing AQL: Oracle database error 972: ORA-00972: identifier is too long..."

Prep Builder page is blank when trying to load flow editor due to a race condition affecting the scripts that need to be loaded.

Unable to cancel a running Prep flow in Tableau Online. Flow stuck "in progress" blocking other flows from running.

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

When adding a node to a Tableau Server cluster on Windows, the installation of Tableau Server on the new node eventually fails and rolls back and the following error might occur: "Tableau Service Manager (TSM) Error: The server may not have started properly. Part of the installer exited with error code:1. Check the logs: [path]\logs\app-worker-install.log for more information. [OK]"

When disabling or unchecking "Allow Support Access" to a Tableau Online site, the following error is displayed: "Some or all of the settings failed to save. Try again."

Login to Tableau Server on Linux delayed by 20 to 30 seconds when the echo service is unreachable on domain controllers.

Reference line text formatting appears different from Tableau Desktop once published up to Tableau Online.

Subscriptions intermittently fail with error "The view snapshot in this email could not be properly rendered" due to "Datasource not found in repository".

Canceling a background job for a flow failed with a "Failed to cancel background job type[RunFlow]" error.

Canceling a job from the Jobs page successfully stopped the job, but the number under Queue Time (min) continued to increase.

Subscriptions created between 10/23 and 11/05 may not run on Tableau Online and instead the error "NullPointerException" is received.

When you made a filter selection and then selected multiple marks on the view, sometimes incorrect marks were highlighted.

A giant "X" appears when viewing custom views in Tableau Server on Internet Explorer 11 and Windows 7.

When using Run Now to run an extract, the job creator ID displayed was for the user who created the extract task, not the user who ran the task.

Refreshes scheduled via Tableau Desktop had a creator ID of 0, rather than the ID of the user who scheduled the refresh.

In the Tableau Server Resource Monitoring tool, icons on the menu bar were close in color to the background and difficult to see.

In the Tableau Content Migration tool, the icon for contacting Support was a similar color to the background and difficult to see.

In the Tableau Resource Monitoring Tool, The CPU usage chart sometimes showed unexpected gaps.

When Tableau Bridge client is not running, sometimes no email notifications are sent to the data source owner that the next scheduled refresh is going to fail.

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.

After changing the site URL of a Tableau Online site, the following error occurred when using Tableau Desktop to open a workbook that connected to a data source published before the site URL change was made: "Item not found (error code 12)"

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

Creating a HyperProcess failed on macOS and Linux if libtinfo was not installed.

Flexera Flexnet 11.16.2 and earlier versions are affected by several denial of service and remote code execution vulnerabilities. For more information see the following Knowledge Base article: Vulnerabilities Present in Flexera Flexnet 11.16.2 And Earlier Versions and the following Security Bulletin: [ Informational] INF-2019-001: FlexNet Publishing CVEs Addressed.

After removing nodes from Tableau Server the removed nodes are still showing in the list-ports command.

In environments where client certificates are optional, Tableau Desktop on Mac sometimes failed to connect to SSL-enabled Tableau Server with the error "Tableau Desktop could not find a client certificate that is valid to sign in to this server. Contact your administrator for an updated certificate."

Slower tooltip rendering after upgrading from 10.5 to 2019.1.2 due to appoption checks taking up too many CPU cycles.

When dragging a pie chart label in Tableau Desktop 2019.2.2, the label jumps to a different position when dropping it. The issue does NOT occur in 2019.2.1.

After connecting to Salesforce and then trying to edit the data source in a workbook, the error "No such function == that takes arguments of type (str, str)" appears.

Internal unexpected error occurred and the operation could not be completed while editing groups on a Mac and using "Find Next".

Opening a workbook and activating Tableau Desktop at the same time sends authentication request to data base with empty password.

Requests for mapsconfig.tableau.com were sent through http:// and not https://

PDFs used in a union showed as red in the Union dialog and the OK button was grayed out.

Data leak across users/sessions when using URL parameters and published data source which uses custom SQL with a parameter.

When connecting to Tableau Server on Linux from Desktop on a Mac, the following error appears: "Cannot connect to Tableau Server. Please check the server name and port and try again."

Web Save may fail with "Incorrect data type." error.

Error loading viz on Bulk Muting page on tabAutoserver using tableau-2.2.2.js.

When connected to Snowflake, using -1 in a Split calculation resulted in the error "Splitting from right is not supported by the data source".

Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts sometimes rendered incorrectly.

There is no validation for the RunAsUser in TSM.

Worksheet not rendering on a dashboard in Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server version 2019.1.x when LogicalQueryCache is enabled.

If you use "copy link" and enter the link into a browser that is set to use Italian it does not work and generates a 404 error.

If 5 seconds is not enough for million of values to be indexed, the preview pane shows a wrong total count after publishing a new data role .

When adding multiple fields at once to the aggregate "Grouped Fields", the fields are not added or only one field displays as being added.

When running a flow where a step is using ISNULL and IIF functions that step fails and produces the error "Collation mismatch use collate statements to resolve".

When trying to edit a calculated field with an IF ELSE calculation, part of the calculation is lost because the calculated field editor overwrites the existing text.

Some pivoted data is missing in GUI, sample limit dropped to 1M instead of the original 3M for Pivots.

Tableau Prep 2019.2, 2018.3, and 2018.1 do not allow assigning the "\" character as column separator in text files. When it is entered into the custom separator box, the box disappears and the Other selection turns to Comma.

Tableau Prep will fail to output a file after the specific steps of splitting a column and then pivoting those columns from columns to rows. The error "Failure evaluating to database: ERROR: collation mismatch, use COLLATE statements to resolve" is displayed.

Cannot connect to SAP Hana view with multiple required variables in Prep Builder. Shows error "System error: Unable to run input node: Failure loading Data Source: value".

Dateparse function returns NULL, when UI is in a non-English language.

Prep Builder crashes under AMD Ryzen 9 3900X CPU.

System error upon publishing data source to Tableau Server when initializing RemoteSemanticService.

Failure evaluating to database error upon running the flow "Failure evaluating to database - No such column xxxx".

When running Tableau Prep flow using a Postgres connection, an error "Prep failure Error: function regexp_replace (uuid, unknown, unknown, unknown) does not exist; Error while executing the query" is received.

When running a flow of Oracle data that involves a join between two aggregates in Tableau Prep 2019.2.3, it gives the error "Something went wrong and we were unable to process output step: Failure parsing AQL: Oracle database error 972: ORA-00972: identifier is too long..."

When running a flow of Oracle data that involves a join between two aggregates in Tableau Prep 2019.2.3, it gives the error "Something went wrong and we were unable to process output step: Failure parsing AQL: Oracle database error 972: ORA-00972: identifier is too long..."

Multiple nested valuesToColumnsOp generate wrong SQL. Cannot create a second Rows to Columns pivot in a flow with union.

"Invalid Tableau Format Type" error received when calling Javascript API getMarksAsync by clicking different map filters on dashboard.

When using Server side rendering, the bottom border of the last row intermittently disappeared.

Error [Hortonworks][Hardy] (80) Syntax or semantic analysis error thrown in server while executing query. Error message from server: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10001]: Line 2:5 Table not found when opening published HortonWorks data sources in Tableau Server or Tableau Desktop if a relative date filter is being used in a certain way.

When displaying a Dashboard on Tableau Server 2018.3.2 using Server side rendering, the bottom border of the last row intermittently disappears.

After workbook with live Excel data source has been published to Tableau Server on Linux, Null values appear.

When generating a set of Tableau Server tsm maintenance ziplogs -d, they contain a workgroup.pg_dump in each repository node folder.

After upgrading Tableau Server,sometimes site-specific SAML logins failed.

When downloading worksheets that include Japanese or Korean text into Image/PDF/PowerPoint, the text wrapping becomes truncated compared the viz on Tableau Server 2018.3 on Linux.

When the install directory contained parentheses "()", install or upgrade sometimes failed at "71% - Failed to start search server".

When you used Tableau Desktop to open a downloaded workbook that was created in Tableau Online or Tableau Server, an "Unable to Complete Action 'Value'" error sometimes occurred.

Embedded View with Non-Default Port Redirects to Port 80 Incorrectly when Using SSPI Auto-Login.

Filter areas appear blank when using the Mobile app with iOS devices to connect to Tableau Server across a Reverse Proxy.

In an environment where Load Balancer is doing SSL offloading (Load Balancer is SSL and listening only on 443, TS is non-SSL), after publishing a data source from Tableau Desktop to Tableau Server, the Ask Data page fails to be loaded because the URL is http:// instead of https://.

Published workbooks viewed on iOS devices, in some proxy environments, fail to load with an unexpected token error or continuous spinner.

After publishing workbook with Story to Tableau Server, when the Story is viewed, the text object in the first Story Point will not be displayed, because Height of dashboard text objects in story point is set to 0px during bootstrapping.

In Tableau Server 2019.2 and 2019.3, Active Directory sync and import operations sometimes took longer than in 2019.1 or earlier versions, and sometimes failed unexpectedly.

If the Google drive API had not been enabled for your project, attempting to connect to Google Sheets resulted in repeated prompts for credentials rather than a descriptive error message.

When using Safari mobile browser on an iPad running iOS 13, dragging across a viz selected multiple marks instead of scrolling, and filters were not interactive. For more information, see Unexpected Behavior for Gestures and filters on iPads with iOS 13.

Clicking an embed view link that contained spaces while not logged in took the user to the default landing page instead of the view.

Extract refreshes intermittently failing with error message "Deadline Exceeded Unable to connect to the Amazon Athena server "athena.us-east-1.amazonaws.com. Check that the server is running and that you have access privileges to the requested database" when refreshing in Tableau Online.

Bridge client creates an error dialog to another error dialog that is about to be deleted.

When attempting to load a dashboard from a workbook on Tableau Online, the dashboard does not render as expected. If the same workbook is opened in Web Edit mode it renders as expected.

Error “No such function ANALYTIC_WINDOW_MAX that takes arguments of type (bool).” occurs when opening workbook connected to hyper data source.

Error "The data types varchar and uniqueidentifier are incompatible in the add operator" when viewing workbook in Tableau Online

After upgrading to Tableau Server 2019.1.1 on Linux, the second lines of worksheet titles are cut off in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Cannot complete restore from backup file from 2018.2.3 on Tableau Server 2018.3.1 and getting "Running step CheckBackupCompatibility failed" error.

Disabling the permission "Automatic Access to Metadata about Databases and Tables" sometimes failed unexpectedly.

When a column has the same name as the table, Google BigQuery fails with this message"An error occurred while communicating with the Google BigQuery data source ''. The Google BigQuery service was unable to compile the query. Grouping by expressions of type STRUCT is not allowed at [x:xxx]."

Published data source overwrites and changes custom measures if a calculation whose underlying XML 'name' is equal to the 'name' of a calculation that was built in a workbook connected to an earlier version of that data source.

In browser rendering Tooltip is not displayed on the reference line label when alignment direction is "Up" or "Down".

After moving to Tableau Server 2019.2.0, when users are receiving Subscription emails, the image is in an attachment and not in the body of the email.

Verify that republishing datasource action prevents password disclosure for datasources which has embedded credentials.

Dashboards/workbooks published to Tableau Online, do not render as expected. If the workbook/dashboard is opened in Web Edit mode it renders as expected.

Creating a calculated field causes spinning wheel for 10-20 seconds on Tableau Online when using Web Edit.

Data point filter for multiple sheets does not filter correctly in Tableau Online.

Published data source missing on Tableau Online and error received "Referenced entity not found for dataConnection [2012293]. It is possible that dataConnection is being deleted."

When trying to refresh a file with an incorrect path, the "cancel refresh" button was unresponsive.

"DisableDataDownload" AppConfig setting was not available for Android.

Thumbnails of custom projects are now displayed in the Explore tab.