Known Issues

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

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.

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."

OAuth data sources published to Tableau Online such as Salesforce and Google Analytics would fail to refresh due to being routed to the Bridge client instead of running server-side.

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.

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

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.

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.

Tableau Desktop 2019.4.0 does not recognize the following 3 Japanese cities: 1. 丹波篠山市 (Tamba-Sasayama, Hyōgo)- city changed its name from 篠山市 to 丹波篠山市 in May 2019. 2. 標津町 (Shibetsu-chō, Hokkaido) 3. 那珂川市 (Nakagawa, Fukuoka)- city founded on October 2018, from 筑紫郡那珂川町.

When opening a worksheet with multiple filters, an error would sometimes occur, "Tableau was unable to generate a query to perform this operation".

TSM Web UI did not display Japanese when the browser was set to Japanese preference.

A text file based workbook would sometimes cause the VizQL Server to spike and not release the CPU on Linux.

Tsm pending-changes list command would sometimes not provide output in the correct language starting in 2019.4.

Changing the data source refresh from incremental to full was not being implemented by Tableau Server.

Active Directory group synchronization would sometimes fail with "com.tableausoftware.domain.ldap.LdapSearchException:javax.naming.InvalidNameException" when special characters were used in the CN attribute.

Importing a configuration topology file with no "tdsservice" or "tdsnativeservice" would fail with an unclear error.

In Web Edit, a quick filter item with an empty (0 byte text) string value in a single value drop-down list, would not display.

Starting with 2020.3.0, the ‘nlp.exe’ or the Natural Language Process would take approximately 800 MB of memory where normally up to 250 MB of memory would be allocated. The increase may contribute to system instability on a new installation. A Tableau Server restart can resolve the issue until the product is updated.

Excessive 4096 Vizportal DataQualityService and WebClientDatasourceAppService errors would sometimes occur in Administrative views after an upgrade of Tableau Server.

The Tableau Mobile app would not support 303 responses from a reverse proxy server setup.

The “Edit Credentials” button was missing in Tableau Bridge 20202.20.0614.2338 for the WDC data source.

In some upgrades to 2020.3, the Tableau Bridge would result in a locked state with the message, “Loading data sources...”.

When a network communication error would occur with a data source stored on Tableau Online, the job process would hang with an http error trying to update the extract.

The Bridge client could repeatedly become disconnected where a restart was needed.

In a dashboard action, settings were not correctly saved when a worksheet name ended with a "\" character.

Calculations that use RAWSQL are not included in the GROUP BY clause when used as a Dimension with AWS Athena and Amazon Redshift.

Table names beginning with a number were displayed as a letter on the data source pane when connected to Google BigQuery.

The dialog, "Search for Data" would show blank after Tableau Desktop had been idle and the server session timeout had occurred.

When the Tableau Server idle timeout had expired, Tableau Desktop would not display a helpful error message to reconnect.

Error 6EA18A93 would sometimes occur when joining unioned tables.

Some workbooks created pre-Hyper would have poor performance in versions 2019.4 and 2020.1 when Context Filters were used.

In a logical join with a flat file, dragging measures from the CSV table to the view could cause a collation mismatch error.

The Schema list was not in order when connected to Amazon Redshift.

The auto field improvement to remove underscores would sometimes not work.

The error, "Type doesn't match expected type" would sometimes occur when changing a quick filter using Animations.

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

HAPI C++ using multiple iterators on one result object could lead to missing results.

In some cases, the Tableau Resource Monitoring Tool would display 'Pending Deletion' for an extended period of time when an environment or server that is part of an environment was deleted by an administrator.

Support for the iOS 14 update.

Support for the iOS 14 update.

Support for the iOS 14 upate.

After running a flow, the order of the fields in the resulting CSV did not always match what was expected.

When running a flow connecting to a SAS server via the generic ODBC connection, the following error would sometimes occur,
"ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: !, !!, &, *, **, +, ',', -, /, , =, >, >=, ?, AND, AS, CONTAINS, EQ, EQT, FROM, GE, GET, GT, GTT, LE, LET, LIKE, LT, LTT, NE, NET, OR, ^=, |, ||, ~=."

Calculations could appear as a mismatched field when performing a Union of the same published data source.

Column order can be incorrectly changed when running an output file from the Prep command line interface.

Running a flow from the command line would fail when no Site was specified in the ".tfl" file.

With Impala ISO-8601 cast from a string to a date and time 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.