Overview
Manually trigger a refresh of a datasource in Tableau.
This Blueprint will kick off the refresh and will almost always return a status of success. It will create and store the generated job ID to shipyard-artifacts/tableau-blueprints/variables/jobid.pickle_
Variables
|
Name |
Reference |
Type |
Required |
Default |
Options |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Authentication Method |
TABLEAU_SIGN_IN_METHOD |
Select |
✅ |
username_password |
Username & Password: username_password
|
Determine which authentication method to use when connecting to Tableau. |
|
Username or Access Token Name |
TABLEAU_USERNAME |
Alphanumeric |
✅ |
None |
- |
Your personal username or the name of the access token that you use to log in with Tableau. |
|
Password or Access Token |
TABLEAU_PASSWORD |
Password |
✅ |
None |
- |
The password associated with the provided username OR the access token associated with the provided access token name. |
|
Server URL |
TABLEAU_SERVER_URL |
Alphanumeric |
✅ |
None |
- |
The scheme, subdomain, domain, and top-level domain (TLD) of your Tableau URL. |
|
Site ID |
TABLEAU_SITE_ID |
Alphanumeric |
✅ |
None |
- |
Typically found in the URL as /site/YOURSITEID/ |
|
Project Name |
TABLEAU_PROJECT_NAME |
Alphanumeric |
✅ |
None |
- |
The project name that the Datasource belongs to. |
|
Datasource Name |
TABLEAU_DATASOURCE_NAME |
Alphanumeric |
✅ |
None |
- |
Name of the published datasource you want to refresh. |
|
Wait For Completion |
TABLEAU_WAIT |
Boolean |
➖ |
TRUE |
- |
Enable if you wish for the vessel to wait for the resource to complete loading before exiting |
YAML
Below is the YAML template
source:
template: Tableau - Trigger Datasource Refresh
inputs:
TABLEAU_SIGN_IN_METHOD: username_password
TABLEAU_USERNAME:
TABLEAU_PASSWORD:
TABLEAU_SERVER_URL:
TABLEAU_SITE_ID:
TABLEAU_PROJECT_NAME:
TABLEAU_DATASOURCE_NAME:
TABLEAU_WAIT: 'TRUE'
type: TEMPLATE
guardrails:
retry_count: 1
retry_wait: 0h0m0s
runtime_cutoff: 1h0m0s
exclude_exit_code_ranges:
- 200
- 201
- 202
- 203
- 204
- 205