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    Interface Field

    A field contains information about what data source it belongs to, its role, and the ability to fetch the domain values.

    interface Field {
        aggregation: FieldAggregationType;
        columnType: ColumnType;
        dataFormat?: DataFormat;
        dataSource: DataSource;
        dataType: undefined | DataType;
        description: undefined | string;
        id: string;
        isCalculatedField: boolean;
        isCombinedField: boolean;
        isGenerated: boolean;
        isGeospatial: boolean;
        isHidden: boolean;
        isPresentOnPublishedDatasource: boolean;
        name: string;
        role: FieldRoleType;
        semanticRole?: string;
    }
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    aggregation columnType dataFormat? dataSource dataType description id isCalculatedField isCombinedField isGenerated isGeospatial isHidden isPresentOnPublishedDatasource name role semanticRole?

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    aggregation: FieldAggregationType

    The type of aggregation for this field.

    columnType: ColumnType

    The type of the column, either discrete or continuous. Could hold value 'Unknown'.

    dataFormat?: DataFormat

    Data formatting options for the field.

    dataSource: DataSource

    The data source to which this field belongs.

    dataType: undefined | DataType

    The data type of the field

    description: undefined | string

    User description of field, undefined if there is none.

    id: string

    Unique string representing this field in this datasource.

    isCalculatedField: boolean

    True if this field is a table calculation.

    isCombinedField: boolean

    True if this field is a combination of multiple fields, false otherwise.

    isGenerated: boolean

    True if this field is generated by Tableau, false otherwise. Tableau generates a number of fields for a data source, such as Number of Records, or Measure Values. This property can be used to distinguish between those fields and fields that come from the underlying data connection, or were created by a user.

    isGeospatial: boolean

    True if this role has a semantic type of geospatial: e.g latitude, longitude, zipcode, City name...

    isHidden: boolean

    True if this field is hidden, false otherwise.

    isPresentOnPublishedDatasource: boolean

    True if this field comes from the published datasource. False if it was created in Tableau (as a calculated field, for example).

    name: string

    The name of the field (i.e. the caption).

    role: FieldRoleType

    The role of this field.

    semanticRole?: string

    The semantic role of the field. Can be either a geographic role (e.g. latitude, longitude, city, country, etc...) or an image role

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