Known issues

Tableau Bridge was not always able to recover after a network failure

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.

Starting with 2020.3 when a Set is placed on the filter shelf, it no longer affects the displayed list of values for all other Quick filters on the sheet.

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

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

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.

Connecting to Postgres via Tableau Online was successful, but error "syntax error at or near "ta"" was seen in the PostgreSQL logs.

After enabling the Catalog feature or upgrading Tableau Server, existing prep flows with the lineage File > Published Data source > Flow > Second Published Data Source did not display the second data source or any associated workbooks.

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."

When attempting to refresh an Amazon RedShift data source/workbook or run a subscription an error will occur, "Error trying to execute a query:[SQLState 22PO2] Error: invalid input syntax for integer".

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.

Beginning with 2020.3.3, any existing rich discrete value filtering in the users flow or a new flow created in grouped steps, the annotation would not show on the profile card as expected to see the change or to edit it. The work around is the use the changes pane on the left or from the flow pane in the top to access the rich discrete value filtering annotation/change they had made.

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

It was not possible to edit an axis range of a continuous bin when the range is fixed to set either the fixed start or fixed end to a decimal number.

An error would occur stating, "Invalid SET statement in the triggered action," when an attempt to connect to Teradata with a username that contained an apostrophe was performed.

When a workbook contained a file union, any subsequent workbook open attempts could fail because the column name would not exist in the data source due to a language translation.

The calculated field set in a title of a Viz is displayed as "All" when using a discrete date dimension for a table across or table down calculation.

The Data Quality Warnings would not refresh for a workbook if the data source connection is opened or a workbook with the connection is opened before signed into Tableau Server.

In the Relationship dialog, when a linking field was changed from an integer to a string, the dialog displayed the correct type but the query used the original data type which could result in a "type mismatch" error.

A table calculation could disappear from the view after the data source was published to Tableau Server.

"Error code: 6EA18A9E. Unable to create extract" could occur with text files when selecting a merged mismatched field as a matching field between two logical tables.

Creating an extract from an OData connection could fail after navigating to a worksheet.

CEILING() function could return incorrect results when using a scalar or a constant as the argument.

During a new installation if the core key activated was not sufficient to handle the cores on the machine or VM, the installation would fail.

TSM Web UI did not show Japanese when the browser is set to prefer Japanese over English starting in version 2019.2+.

When using a live embedded SAP HANA data source, any non-owner could not view and edit the workbook using web authoring.

Zero grid lines on a graph would disappear after selecting a dashboard filter action with animations.

When a live data source is published over an encrypted extract and the live data source is then converted to an extract, the error could occur stating that "hyper already exists".

The REST API previously did not allow for "+" to represent a space character in a filter parameter input.

Broken license fulfillments could display in TSM and be counted by Tableau Server if at least one good product key was activated.

When a URL had the "tabs=yes" specified, all tabs in the workbook appear and the active view was duplicated.

When a workbook or data source was published, the "viewer credentials" authentication option was translated incorrectly in Japanese.

In some circumstances, when the SMTP host value was set and saved in the Tableau Resource Monitoring Tool, the user interface would change the value listed to 'undefined'. This did not affect the underlying configuration but was an issue in the UI.

When the Resource Monitoring Tool agent cannot read a Tableau Server log folder due to permissions, the agent would stop processing all log information. Agents will now continue to process information from logs that do not have permissions issues.

When an external service was being leveraged on Tableau Server, the Tableau Resource Monitoring Tool could show "unknown" as the status for the Tableau Server Processes.

Using special UTF-8 characters in the database name would lead to a parsing error on certain operating system configurations.

When using the "#" character in a password and enforcing special characters was enabled with local authentication, an error would display that the password must include at least one special character.

The parameter control date picker would display today's date as "Month YYYY" format which did not match Tableau Desktop.

When an extract is created in the user interface of Tableau Server, the data source filters based on a date would be ignored.

Revision history on a site would be disabled when the Extract Encryption at Rest setting was changed via Tabcmd.

On Windows Server 2012 R2 and Tableau Server 2020.3, degraded Viz load performance can occur when the New Relic Infrastructure Agent or other third-party monitoring software that uses WMI counters are running on the same node as Hyper and the Filestore.

A new Zookeeper instance would sometimes fail to start when deploying a coordination service if one already existed.

A REST API call that specified a workbook name and contained special characters would fail.

The command "tsm maintenance reindex-search" would sometimes fail and the Tabadmincontroller logs would contain " Read timed out error and ERROR com.tableausoftware.tabadmin.webapp.init.RebuildSearchIndex - Failed to rebuild search index."

Embedded views would sometimes fail loading the second visualization when multiple Sites were configured and there was no Guest user with "An unexpected error occurred on the server. Click the Refresh button in your web browser and try again."

The MIN() function added in the query causes performance degradation since 2020.2.0.

After successful login, an iframe embedded dashboard would fail to load if the URL contained the hash characters, "%23".

With SAP HANA, Tableau Server could issue queries twice, once before the SAP Prompt and then again afterwards.

A dashboard containing a map would sometimes not load after applying a filter from all values to a single value.

When recovering from a node 3 failure in a 3 node cluster, the "ServiceOperationTimeoutException" error was received after running the command "tsm topology deploy-coordination-service -n node1 --ignore-node-status node3". The command failed to redeploy the coordination service.

Group names created with 2 or more spaces in the name were incorrectly displayed on the Groups page.

Previous manual sort orders would not be retained after adding a field by drag and drop to change another order.

Using the MSAS 15.1.x driver, an error would occur when dragging any field into the view, "Error Code A7AE04D2. Unknown error communication with the data source
(COM 0xC1010000)."

Oracle error "ORA-01424: missing or illegal character following the escape character", would sometimes display when dragging a table to the canvas.

"Initial Connection : Hyper : Failed to start a new hyper instance. AssignProcessToJobObject() failed.: Access is denied" would display when creating an extract on Citrix XenApp.

Tableau Desktop installation property DRIVEDIR did not work as expected.

'Getting data from server' pop-up window would sometimes display when trying to edit a Calculated Field.

The "Sort Field" menu bar would sometimes disappear on the data source page after navigating from worksheet to data source page.

Improved the offline and connected view experience in the Mobile App. When a favorited view was selected, the ‘Interactive Preview’ screen was offline irrespective of their app state (connected or not connected).

The Hyper API license on PyPi.org was not displayed.

Hyperd would sometimes fail to start with "'system_error: MountId<3145741>::getPath(): No such device".

An embedded dashboard prompts for login when no active user session exists for users in a Kerberos SSO enabled environment.

Revision history on a site was disabled when "Extract Encryption at Rest " setting was changed via Tabcmd.

When an attempt was made to change a schedule for one or more subscriptions, an error could occur stating, "Subscription with subject '' could not be found. Verify that it still exists and try again.".

Duplicated translations appeared in the Dashboard menu. "Caption" was translated as "Title" in zh-CN.

In Desktop 2019.2.2 and higher a performance issue would occur when connecting to Hadoop Impala on the Macintosh OS.

Some text file based workbooks would cause the VizQL Server to spike and not release the CPU until the process was restarted.

It was not possible to connect to instances at "servicenowservices.com" when using the ServiceNow connector.

With Impala an ISO-8601 cast from a string to a date and time field failed on 2020.2 and higher with the error, "Invalid character value for cast specification".

When the Managing Users option is set to "Only Server Administrators", it is not possible to create a local group as a Site Administrator.

When hovering over a value displayed on a Viz, an error would sometimes occur, "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'indexOf' of null.

When the Guest user is disabled on the Default Site, the Guest user would not be able to download underlying data on other sites.

On slow networks, an embedded viz using in-frame SAML authentication could end up looping before the login was successful.

Materialized Views job could fail with "Call not allowed".

When connected to a large spatial file that is a published data source, and an attempt to load a geometry field was performed, an error would display, "Error: BinaryTupleReader::NextWireValueAligned:941 Not enough data for header".

Performance degradation would sometimes occur when an extract refresh was performed for Google BigQuery.

A query could take an excessive amount of time on a complex worksheet and not load.

Sometimes Tableau Desktop would quit when signing out of Tableau Online.

Connecting to Google BigQuery would sometimes be slow on the initial load of datasets.

WDC based connectors would not respect proxy configurations from PAC files starting with 2019.4.

A workbook connected to an Impala data source could result in the error "AnalysisException: LEFT OUTER JOIN requires an ON or USING clause" when "none" is selected in a parameter.

When using Denodo 7.0 and higher data sources, queries on the new Denodo date type ‘localdate’ fields would incorrectly return a date & time, when it should have returned a date only.

To refresh extracts for an Oracle JDBC connection to the same database, the user would be prompted for the password to each connection instead of one prompt.

Creating an Oracle extract would sometimes result in the error, "Invalid datetime value Error Code: DD90F63D, Unable to create extract".

If the data source filter was initially set to exclude all values, changing the existing data source filter would not work correctly.

An error would sometimes occur retrieving OData feeds with the message, "Error '20B40A5E'. The table does not exist" .

Salesforce data extract refresh would sometimes fail with the error, "LogicAssert at ExtractDataTask.cpp line X: fk != relationNames.end()".

Creating a Salesforce data extract in Tableau Desktop 2020.2 would sometimes fail with "Extract not created" when the Salesforce object was created from joined tables.

Auto update could have an inconsistency between the user interface and a twb file with the 'lock-update' flag.

Opening a workbook with an extract where the extract was created within a packaged workbook could sometimes fail with the message, "Internal Error - An unexpected error occurred and the operation could not be completed. Error code 6EA18A9E".

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."

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.

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."