The following tables shows the ingestion results based on your role and permissions in Tableau.
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.
- Create a technical lineage and allow the automatic stitching of Column assets to Tableau Data Attribute assets.
- Harvest owner information for Tableau projects, workbooks and data models.
Note If you ingest a Tableau dataset that doesn't have any attributes, asterisks (*) are shown as the Tableau Data Attribute asset names in Collibra.
| Tableau site role | Result in Data Catalog |
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Viewer |
Tableau reports and data sources are ingested into Data Catalog, but with a limited scope.
See the resulting asset types
Important Collibra Data Lineage cannot retrieve lineage information or perform automatic stitching. |
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Explorer, without access to external assets. For more information, see Tableau roles and permissions. |
Tableau reports and data sources are ingested into Data Catalog, but with a limited scope.
See the resulting asset types
Important We cannot retrieve lineage information or perform automatic stitching. This is the case if you don't have the Data Management add-on or derived permissions for the external assets. |
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One of the following:
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Data Catalog creates new assets according to your content in Tableau using metadata in Tableau databases and tables.
See the resulting asset types
Warning The Metadata API must be enabled in Tableau to retrieve lineage information or perform automatic stitching.
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