Enable Tableau metadata API

You can enable the Tableau metadata API if you want to ingest Tableau 2020.2 or newer in Data Catalog.

Note Make sure that the Tableau metadata API is enabled in Tableau before you ingest or synchronize Tableau in Data Catalog.

Warning If you upgrade to Tableau version 2020.2 or newer, but previously synchronized an older Tableau version via the REST API and XML mapping, you have to prepare the migration procedure to prevent losing manually added relations, attributes, tags, comments and stitching results.

Depending on your environment, you have to follow this procedure either in the Services Configuration section of the Collibra settings or in Collibra Console:

Prerequisites

  • You have the ADMIN role in Collibra Console.
  • You have a global role that has the System administration global permission.
  • Platform configuration in the Collibra settings is enabled.

Steps

  1. Open the Services Configuration page.
    1. In the main menu, click , then Settings.
      The Collibra settings page appears.
    2. In the tab pane, click Services Configuration.
    Open the DGC service settings for editing:
    1. Open Collibra Console.
      Collibra Console opens with the Infrastructure page.
    2. In the tab pane, expand an environment to show its services.
    3. In the tab pane, click the Data Governance Center service of that environment.
    4. Click Configuration.
    5. Click Edit configuration.
  2. In the Tableau metadata API section, enter the required information:

    3. Setting

    Description

    Enable Tableau metadata API
    • True: Tableau metadata API is enabled. This enables you to ingest Tableau 2020.2 or newer into Data Catalog.
    • False: Tableau metadata API is disabled. If you ingest Tableau 2020.2 or newer, the ingestion will fail. This prevents data loss of manually added relations and attributes.
  3. Click the green Save all button.