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, follow this procedure either on the Services Configuration tab of the Collibra settings or in Collibra Console:

Collibra Console Collibra Settings

Important Editing the Services Configuration from the Settings page isn't available in the latest UI. If you use the latest UI, you can configure these settings only in Collibra Console. For more information, go to DGC service configuration settings.

Prerequisites

You have the ADMIN or SUPER role in Collibra Console.

You have a global role that has the System administration global permission.

The Services Configuration tab is available in the Collibra settings.

Steps

Open the Services Configuration page.
1. On the main toolbar, click , and then click Settings.
  The Collibra settings page opens.
2. Click Services Configuration.
3. Click Edit 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.
In the Tableau metadata API section, enter the required information:

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.
Tableau on-premise instances	Note This setting is only applicable if you are using the latest Collibra UI. A comma-separated list of your on-premises Tableau URLs. This list represents the values that appear in the Tableau URL or endpoint drop-down list on Tableau Server asset pages. You select a URL when setting up a connection to the on-premises Tableau instance.
Tableau Online URL regular expression	A regular expression that is used to validate the format of URL of the on-premises Tableau instance. The default expression is `^https?:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.tableau\.com\/?$`. We recommend that you not change the default expression unless you find that it doesn't work.

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.

Tableau on-premise instances

Note This setting is only applicable if you are using the latest Collibra UI.

A comma-separated list of your on-premises Tableau URLs. This list represents the values that appear in the Tableau URL or endpoint drop-down list on Tableau Server asset pages. You select a URL when setting up a connection to the on-premises Tableau instance.

Tableau Online URL regular expression

A regular expression that is used to validate the format of URL of the on-premises Tableau instance.

The default expression is ^https?:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.tableau\.com\/?$. We recommend that you not change the default expression unless you find that it doesn't work.

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