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.

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

An unknown license line item appeared in Manage Product Keys for Tableau Desktop which showed the license expiration date as "30-Dec-1899".

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.

Page setup scaling options do not stay set when a workbook is download from Tableau Online 2021.1 via the user interface.

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.

WDC extract refreshes could fail with the error, "Render process terminated - render process crashed (exit code=-2147483645)".

An unrecoverable error can be thrown when web authoring a flow and switching to Field List View and then an output step is selected. Error displays, "Something went wrong and we couldn't complete the action."

An intermittent error could occur when accessing a visualization that is connected to a published data source, "No Tableau Server user found. DataServiceFailure."

Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep were not displaying nested folders as destinations for publishing when permissions to parent project had been denied.

The Site Administrator could modify a user's group membership even though Tableau Server was configured to only allow Server Administrators to manage users.

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

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.

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.

In some circumstances, writing with enabled Capability::compressedBlocksWithDeletedTuples (=file format 1), stored the data incorrectly.

Tableau Mobile now lets you compare a metric to a static target value. A target value can be specified on metrics created in Tableau Server 2021.2 or Tableau Online.

Improved the experience for sending application logs to Tableau Technical Support.

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".

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

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".

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

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

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.

It is not possible to use SSL for TabPy and RServe connections. Trying to use a connection with SSL enabled in the connection configuration returned an error.

Extract refresh failure could occur with PGSQL JDBC driver when a monetary data type was used. The error would display, "Bad value for type double".

It would not be possible to open a spatial file using Tableau Desktop 2021.1+, ​ if the file path contained non-ASCII characters. The error would display, "Error code: 61922F37. Invalid database name value."

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

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.

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.

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

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

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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