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Support Alerts - Aug 6, 2020

Tableau Product Notice

On August 1st, the Tableau development team updated the certificates for our Windows based product installers. This change may cause issues with installing specific versions of Tableau Products. To resolve, please install the latest maintenance version of the product you’re using here. For more details, please see this Knowledge Base article.

Product Release and Download

Tableau Prep Builder 2019.3.1

We recommend using the newest maintenance release of this version, 2019.3.2, which contains additional fixes.

Download Tableau Prep 2019.3.2

Build number

19.31.19.0923.1415

Download Tableau Prep 2019.3.1

Release date

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Product support

Tableau Prep Builder version 2019.3.1 has been upgraded to build number 19.31.19.0923.1415 to include important security enhancements. For more information about this change, please see ADV-2019-038 in Security Bulletins.

Resolved Issues

Issue ID	Description
937438	When changing the datatype from datetime to date for a "dateString" field on input node, this error displays: "System error: Unable to run input node: Failure evaluating to database: all inputs to union must have matching column types".
942166	Error "Failure evaluating to database: ERROR: db1 TableauTemp (table name) does not exist" when running flow.
942130	Error "collation mismatch" when running a flow in Prep 2019.2.3 or 2019.2.2, but success with Prep 2019.2.1.
940558	Accepting a Prep recommendation to map values to null, causes all data to disappear and profile pane goes blank.
938199	Collation error when running attached flow with Excel and text files.
933820	Google Big Query connector fails to launch on Mac.
951015	When running an Output step, an error occurs "Failure evaluating to database: ERROR: collation mismatch, use COLLATE statements to resolve".
952365	When launching Tableau Prep Builder 2019.2.2 or newer on macOS Catalina, the following error occurred: "Error Running Tableau Prep Builder. The My Tableau Prep repository is either read only or can't be found. Check that the repository location is in a directory with write permissions or contact your System Administrator" for more information, see this Knowledge Base article.
946418	When installing or upgrading to a Tableau Desktop or Tableau Prep Builder version released after June 1st, 2019 on macOS Catalina, an "Tableau Desktop.pkg” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software." error occurred. This behavior is related to the macOS notarization process.

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If you are currently using macOS Catalina (version 10.15), please read this knowledge base article before downloading Tableau Prep Builder.

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