Concepts

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• Content Types
• Migration Plan
• Migration Plan Builder
• Migration Result
• Configuration

This topic details the terms and concepts you must understand before you plan your migration from Tableau Server to Tableau Cloud.

Content Types

Content types are the various types of content that reside on Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud. For details about which content types the Migration SDK supports, see Supported Content Types.

For unsupported content types, see Data not supported by the Migration SDK.

Migration Plan

A migration plan describes how a migration should be done and what customizations must be done inflight. See IMigrationPlan in the API Reference documentation for a list of properties and their descriptions.

Migration Plan Builder

This is the best way to build a migration plan. Calling the Build() method on the IMigrationPlanBuilder gives you a MigrationPlan. For more information, see IMigrationPlanBuilder in the API Reference documentation for details.

Migration Result

This is the result generated after the migration has finished. It has two properties:

• Migration Status: This is simply the status of the migration. See MigrationCompletionStatus enumeration in the API Reference documentation for various status items supported.
• Migration Manifest: The migration manifest describes the various Tableau data items found to migrate and their migration results. See IMigrationManifest in the API Reference documentation for details.

Configuration

Configuration can be done using the MigrationSdkOptions. For information about configuration items and their defaults, see MigrationSdkOptions in the API Reference documentation.