Tableau ingestion results

The following tables shows the ingestion results based on Tableau permissions.

By default, the lineage harvester uses both the Tableau REST API and the Tableau Metadata API, but you can limit the ingestion by allowing the lineage harvester to use only the Tableau REST API.

Tableau site role	Metadata API in Tableau	Result in Data Catalog
Viewer	Disabled	Tableau reports and data sources are ingested into Data Catalog, but with a limited scope. See the resulting asset types Tableau Server Tableau Site Tableau Project Tableau Data Model Tableau Workbook Tableau Worksheet Important We cannot retrieve lineage information or perform automatic stitching.
Viewer	Enabled	Tableau reports and data sources are ingested into Data Catalog, but with a limited scope. See the resulting asset types Tableau Server Tableau Site Tableau Project Tableau Data Model Tableau Data Attribute Tableau Workbook Tableau Worksheet Important We cannot retrieve lineage information or perform automatic stitching.
Explorer, without the Data Management Add-on	Disabled	Tableau reports and data sources are ingested into Data Catalog, but with a limited scope. See the resulting asset types Tableau Server Tableau Site Tableau Project Tableau Dashboard Tableau Data Model Tableau Workbook Tableau Worksheet Important We cannot retrieve lineage information or perform automatic stitching.
Explorer, without the Data Management Add-on	Enabled	Tableau reports and data sources are ingested into Data Catalog, but with a limited scope. See the resulting asset types Tableau Server Tableau Site Tableau Project Tableau Dashboard Tableau Data Model Tableau Data Attribute Tableau Workbook Tableau Worksheet Important We cannot retrieve lineage information or perform automatic stitching.
One of the following: Tableau Server Administrator Tableau Site Administrator Explorer, with the Data Management Add-on	Disabled	Data Catalog creates new assets according to your content in Tableau using metadata in Tableau databases and tables. See the resulting asset types Tableau Server Tableau Site Tableau Project Tableau Data Model Tableau Workbook Tableau Dashboard Tableau Worksheet Important We cannot retrieve lineage information or perform automatic stitching.
One of the following: Tableau Server Administrator Tableau Site Administrator Explorer, with the Data Management Add-on	Enabled	Data Catalog creates new assets according to your content in Tableau using metadata in Tableau databases and tables. See the resulting asset types Tableau Server Tableau Site Tableau Project Tableau Data Model Tableau Data Attribute Tableau Workbook Tableau Dashboard Tableau Worksheet Note If Tableau Online or Tableau Server is not licensed with the Data Management Add-on, then by default, only admins can see database and table metadata through the Tableau Metadata API. You can turn on "derived permissions", to allow users to see metadata on external assets for the content that they own, or for the content that is published to a project for which they are a project leader or project owner. For complete information, see the Tableau documentation.