What does Atlan crawl from Tableau?

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Atlan crawls and maps the following assets and properties from Tableau.

Once you've crawled Tableau, you can use connector-specific filters for quick asset discovery. The following filters are currently supported for these assets:

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For your Tableau worksheets and dashboards, Atlan also provides asset previews to help with quick discovery and give you the context you need.

🚨 Careful! You may need to disable clickjack protection for Tableau asset previews to load.

Sites

Atlan maps sites from Tableau to its TableauSite asset type.

Source property Atlan property
name name

Projects

Atlan maps projects from Tableau to its TableauProject asset type.

Source property Atlan property
name name
description description
createdAt sourceCreatedAt
updatedAt sourceUpdatedAt
hierarchy projectHierarchy
topLevelProject isTopLevelProject

Flows

Atlan maps flows from Tableau to its TableauFlow asset type.

Source property Atlan property
name name
description description
owner sourceOwner
inputFields inputFields
outputFields outputFields
outputSteps outputSteps
project_extra (hierarchy) projectHierarchy

Metrics

Atlan maps metrics from Tableau to its TableauMetric asset type.

Source property Atlan property
name name
description description
owner sourceOwner
createdAt sourceCreatedAt
updatedAt sourceUpdatedAt
project_extra (hierarchy) projectHierarchy

Workbooks

Atlan maps workbooks from Tableau to its TableauWorkbook asset type.

Source property Atlan property
name name
description description
webpageUrl sourceURL
owner sourceOwner
createdAt sourceCreatedAt
updatedAt sourceUpdatedAt
project_extra (hierarchy) projectHierarchy

Worksheets

Atlan maps worksheets from Tableau to its TableauWorksheet asset type.

Source property Atlan property
name name
createdAt sourceCreatedAt
updatedAt sourceUpdatedAt
source_url sourceURL
project_extra (hierarchy) projectHierarchy

Dashboards

Atlan maps dashboards from Tableau to its TableauDashboard asset type.

Source property Atlan property
name name
createdAt sourceCreatedAt
updatedAt sourceUpdatedAt
source_url sourceURL
project_extra (hierarchy) projectHierarchy

Data sources

Atlan maps data sources (embedded and published) from Tableau to its TableauDatasource asset type.

Source property Atlan property
name name
description description
isPublished isPublished
hasExtracts hasExtracts
upstreamTables upstreamTables
upstreamDatabases upstreamDatabases
isCertified certificateStatus (VERIFIED)
certifier certifier
certificationNote certificationStatusMessage
certifierDisplayName certificateUpdatedBy
project_extra (hierarchy) projectHierarchy

Data source fields

Atlan maps data source fields and column fields from Tableau to its TableauDatasourceField asset type.

Source property Atlan property
name name
description description
upstreamTables upstreamTables
upstreamColumns upstreamColumns
dataCategory tableauDatasourceFieldDataCategory
role tableauDatasourceFieldRole
dataType tableauDatasourceFieldDataType
formula tableauDatasourceFieldFormula
binSize tableauDatasourceFieldBinSize
__typename datasourceFieldType
project_extra (hierarchy) projectHierarchy

Calculated fields

Atlan maps calculated fields from Tableau to its TableauCalculatedField asset type.

Source property Atlan property
name name
description description
dataCategory dataCategory
role role
dataType tableauDataType
formula formula
project_extra (hierarchy) projectHierarchy

Lineage

Atlan calculates lineage for Tableau as follows:

Source object Tableau object Tableau object (downstream)
Table Published data source Published data source
Table Published data source Embedded data source
Table Embedded data source  
Column Data source field Calculated field
Column Data source field Data source field
🚨 Careful! Lineage is currently not supported for Tableau flows and metrics.

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