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.

When trying to refresh a published flat file using a custom schedule, it would go to a direct Tableau Online connection and would fail, instead of going to Tableau Bridge.

Presto and Athena drivers would not present an error when signing in with invalid credentials.

Error messages in the calculation field within Tableau Desktop would display in a different language from the chosen Tableau Prep language.

When launching Tableau Desktop 2020.4 or newer, some users would be prompted for proxy authentication at every launch.

When users login to Tableau Desktop or Tableau Server using Kerberos and automatic login, the user is required to click "Sign in using Windows credentials" twice.

End user would sometimes experience a decrease in performance when filtering date range and location in a workbook with row level security.

Tableau Desktop would unexpectedly quit while verifying licensing on MAC OS Monterey.

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.

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

An intermittent error could occur refreshing an Amazon Redshift extract with the notification email stating, "Tableau Protocol Server process might be terminated, possibly due to system resource constrains or another external source."

Data Source details page will not load for users who have access to the data source but not to the project containing the data source.

It was not possible to reset verification methods in Tableau Online from the users TableauID profile (on Tableau.com).

A custom view would sometimes not reflect the dynamic parameter in a subscription email.

After publishing a workbook the dates along the axis line would sometimes change and become inaccurate

When viewing a visualization in Tableau Online or Tableau Server 2021.2 or higher that had a grey background it could be changed to white.

Subscriptions would intermittently fail with the error "workbook/ already exists; Unable to generate the view"

When running certain flows in Tableau Online the error "System error: AqlProcessor evaluation failed: Operation cancelled. DataServiceFailure" would occur.

Databricks data source extract refresh would time out in Tableau Online as it is working in Tableau Desktop.

When creating a new parameter, after selecting the type "list", the resulting dialog box would resize causing the "Ok" and Cancel" buttons to be out of the view.

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.

When multiple keys are activated on Tableau Server, registration data may not be available in the Tableau Customer Portal for all keys.

When upgrading to version 2020.4 or newer, and the Server install has continually upgraded from 2018.1 or older while maintaining settings, it may not be possible to complete the upgrade. The upgrade failure message is “An error occurred during installation. Error occurred during encryption/decryption. Upgrade is unable to continue." Please see https://kb.tableau.com/articles/issue/error-an-error-occurred-during-installation-error-occurred-during-encryption-decryption-when-upgrading-tableau-server for solution steps.

The 'embed=y' parameter is not included by default in the URL generated by the "share" button in Tableau Server.

After publishing a workbook, a line could appear in a crosstab, which was not present in the rendering in Tableau Desktop.

Data Server fails to start after upgrading Tableau Server 2021.3.1 to 2021.3.3 on Linux (Ubuntu/Debian)

With the ATR activation method, the activation service could result in excessive logging at the "info" level.

When saving Tableau Server settings after enabling workbook performance metrics, the end user might receive the error "Some or all of the settings failed to save. Try again".

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.

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

In versions up to, and including 2021.3, passwords longer than 240 characters are not supported in web authoring. Starting in 2021.4, this will be supported, however, the published recommendation to configure Tableau Server to use HTTPS, is highly recommended.

Dashboard filters could show different results and behavior when comparing to Tableau Desktop.

The origin point on an axis could change from 0 to a different value when published.

A custom unit string can show a duplicated item when published.

Set action made on source worksheet would not apply after publishing workbook to Tableau Online or Tableau Server when using published data source.

An axis label with a custom number format could change when the workbook was published.

Fixed for new vizable log file: the log now contains the refresh error message.

If a string field was used as a filter, the generated SQL statement would be incorrect.

When creating a "custom value list" filter with more than ten values on the list and a live connection to Google BigQuery an error would occur.

If a relationship and extract were applied in the same workbook and an ISO calculation was used it would result in an error: "Unable to complete action. Tableau cannot evaluate the query that results from this calculation. Error Code: F5328B32"

If the user used a context filter and another filter displaying all the values within the context filter, by selecting one value in each filter it would reset the filter displaying all values to "all".

The time to show the menu dialog box after right clicking a parameter would sometimes be longer than expected

The workbook title would sometimes display incorrectly when using a set as a filter in version In 2020.4.0 or later.

End users were unable to reset the field names of multiple fields at once.

End users would encounter an error when using CTRL+A to select column on the data source screen

Upgrading Tableau Server 2020.2.3 would result in a failure if utilizing an expired certificate.

After upgrading from Tableau Server 2019.4.1 to 2020.4.5 MariaDB extracts would take longer than expected to refresh.

Restoring an old flow revision while connected to a published data source would result in the following error: "This revision can't be restored. Try downloading it and then open it in Tableau Prep Builder".

The Hyper process CPU utilization could cross 100% after a filter was selected on a workbook with a published datasources.

After publishing dashboards containing line charts, selecting "single date value" would cause the wrong month to display on the x-axis.

Running the command "tsm configuration set -k vizqlserver.jdbc.wg.connections" would result in an error.

When using "manage all site" to update the settings of a site that was not logged into Tableau Server 2021.1-2021.2 an error would occur.

After publishing a viz to Tableau Server, the original English locale settings in Tableau Desktop would not be shown in the published view.

Publishing a flow from a Progressive Web App with a TabPy script would result in a failure.

When running a program in Hyper API that deletes and inserts a range of rows, it would sometimes result in an error.

After running a flow, Tableau Prep would fail to write a record which has more than 3000 characters in one column to MS SQL Server

In Tableau Prep 2021.1.1 the output result would be wrong when using a wildcard union as an input step.

Fixed for an edge case: customer's AllowedFilePathsUNC.txt file is empty and read-only

When connecting to a published data source over 3 GB and using a join, an error could display stating, "Error opening archive file. Invalid twb or twbx file."

In a Redshift data connection, a data type for a field defined as a date, would return "datetime" and result in a slow query.

When using continuous dimensions it was not possible to set "Force the y-intercept to zero".

In Tableau Desktop, within the Analytics pane the language would sometimes not localize correctly in the "Add Totals" display.

In Tableau Desktop unexpected formatting behavior would sometimes occur when visualizing certain datetime parts on a continuous axis.

In Tableau Desktop when using range parameters the default value would be disabled.

Server and site admins would receive failure notifications for other users' extract refresh failures.

A session timeout could occur when using web edit in an iframe and adding a data source.

Upgrade could fail with the error, "Error performing restore at com.tableausoftware.installer.operations.RestoreRepositoryOperation".

Google Big Query data sources could fail an incremental extract refresh with the following message, "Error with duplicated DS: 'Destination exists. Not copying file.'"

With the SAP HANA data source and using web authoring, creating a filter could display an empty list and the error, "TableauException: Reference to undefined field."

When loading a view, an error could display stating "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token U in JSON at position 0."

In Tableau Server, clicking a button on a dashboard might result in an error "Failed to execute 'arc' on 'CanvasRenderingContext2d'".

After publishing a viz, the date on the axis would change and become incorrect.

With some perpetual licenses (no expiration date), the Server ATR activation method could result in the "Specified product key not found" error and display the key as expired even though the license has a current maintenance date.

Starting in 2021.1+ , if SAML is configured, users were not getting the site selection option but redirected to a site.

After upgrading to Tableau Server 2020.1, a large SAS extract refresh could fail with the error, "Exceeded per-process memory threshold." Large memory is consumed when this error occurs. KB: https://kb.tableau.com/articles/Issue/large-sas-file-extract-refresh-failed-and-huge-memory-consumption-observed-after-upgraded-tableau-server-to-2020-3-1.

When connecting to a Google sheet the connection would sometimes fail with the error "OAuth-client cannot be passed in as null or empty".

When running a Tableau Flow, an io.exception would occur and the flow would fail.

In Tableau Server when there were over 1000 sites, the Site Admin would not be able to see any sites on the Site Picker.

The Content Migration Tool would fail to handle loading plans of the newer Content Migration Tool versions.

The User Mapping Dropdown would cause Content Migration Tool to crash when loading over 100,000 users.

The Tableau Resource Monitoring Tool lacked 'Connection Type' information on some query detail pages.