Supported Content Types


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The Migration SDK is equipped to migrate the following content types. When no filters are provided, items for all content types are migrated with some exceptions. Note the minimum permissions required to migrate each content type.

Content Type What is migrated What isn’t migrated Minimum permissions
Custom Views
  • Ownership
  • List of users for whom the custom view is default.
  • Source: Site Administrator
  • Destination: Site Administrator
Data Sources
  • Ownership
  • Permissions
  • Tags
  • Labels
  • Revision History
  • Credentials for embedded connections. You can write custom hooks that update connections after data sources are published using custom Hooks.
  • Source: Read (view), Connect, and ExportXml permissions on all data sources
  • Destination: Site Administrator
Extract Refresh Schedules
  • Extract Refresh schedules with Frequencies and Intervals are migrated to cloud compatible schedules. Make sure you set the correct time zone. In the case where the time zones don't match, you must add a transformer to update the day/time of the scheduled task.
  • Schedules with an hourly frequency and less than one hour intervals are migrated to have a one hour frequency. See Schedule Refreshes on Tableau Cloud for details about supported frequencies and intervals.
  • Schedule Name
  • Schedule Priority
  • Schedule Execution Order (Parallel or Serial)
  • Weekly frequency, with multiple days of the week selected
For more information, see Jobs, Tasks, and Schedule Methods.
  • Source: Site Administrator
  • Destination: Site Administrator
Groups Group membership for users. Group “All Users”
  • Source: Site Administrator
  • Destination: Site Administrator
Projects
  • Permissions
  • Ownership
  • Source: Read (view) permissions on all projects
  • Destination: Site Administrator
Users
  • Source: Site Administrator
  • Destination: Site Administrator
Workbooks
  • Ownership
  • Permissions
  • Tags
  • DataAccelerationConfig
  • Credentials for embedded connections. You can write custom hooks that update connections after workbooks are published using custom Hooks.
  • Labels
  • Source: Read (view) and ExportXml permissions on all workbooks
  • Destination: Site Administrator