Notifications Methods


Notification methods consists of data-driven alerts, user notification preferences, and webhooks.

Using the notification methods of the Tableau Server REST API you can:

  • Create,list, update, or delete the data-driven alerts of a site
  • Get the details of a specific data-driven alert
  • Add or delete the users of a specific data-driven alert
  • Create a new Webhook for a site.
  • Delete a Webhook.
  • Get a list of Webhooks for a specific site.
  • Get the notification preferences for a specified site, filtered by channel and notification type.
  • Update user notifications preferences to enabled or disabled on a specified site.

Add User to Data-Driven Alert

Adds a specified user to the recipients list for a data-driven alert.

URI

POST /api/api-version/sites/site-id/dataAlerts/data-alert-id/users

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.20. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the specified data-driven alert.
data-alert-id The ID of the data-driven alert. You can obtain this ID by calling Query Data-Driven Alerts.

Version: Available in API 3.2 (Tableau Cloud / Tableau Server 2018.3) and later. Version Overview(Link opens in a new window)

License: No additional license required.>

Permissions: This method can only be called by server administrators and site administrators, and by users who are owners of the specified alert.   Permissions Overview(Link opens in a new window)

JWT Access Scope: tableau:data_driven_alerts:update     Access Scopes Overview: Cloud(Link opens in a new window) | Server-Windows(Link opens in a new window) | Server-Linux(Link opens in a new window)
Available in API 3.20 (Tableau Cloud June 2023). Not available for Tableau Server.

Request Body

<tsRequest>
  <user id="user-id"/>
</tsRequest>

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <user id="user-id"
    name="user-name"
    siteRole="site-role"
    externalAuthUserId="external-user-id"/>
</tsResponse>

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
403 403004 Write forbidden A user called this method who does not have the required permissions.
403 409028 Adding recipient to data-driven alert forbidden The user is not authorized to add the recipient to the data-driven alert.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID or URL namespace in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404002 Resource Not Found The user ID specified in the request body is invalid.
404 409023 Resource Not Found The data-driven alert ID specified in the URI is invalid.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not POST.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.20/sites/13020592-762f-4de4-a25e-f4beb005836e/dataAlerts/e5a4b73e-5cbb-412d-907e-f31cc31684f7/users" -X POST -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd" -d @add-user-to-alert.xml

Content of add-user-to-alert.xml: 

<tsRequest>
  <user id="8eda27d9-5ad2-42cd-a39a-61bc01a423af"/>
</tsRequest>

Example response:


<tsResponse>
  <user id="8eda27d9-5ad2-42cd-a39a-61bc01a423af"
        name="admin"
        siteRole="ServerAdministrator"
        externalAuthUserId=""/>
</tsresponse>

Create Data Driven Alert

Create a data driven alert (DDA) for a view with a single data axis.

Version: Available in API 3.20 (Tableau Cloud June 2023) and later. Not available for Tableau Server. Version Overview(Link opens in a new window)

License: No additional license required.

Permissions: Users with the Administrator, Creator, or Explorer role can add DDAs to views they have permissions to.   Permissions Overview(Link opens in a new window)

JWT Access Scope: tableau:data_driven_alerts:create     Access Scopes Overview: Cloud(Link opens in a new window) | Server-Windows(Link opens in a new window) | Server-Linux(Link opens in a new window)
Available in API 3.20 and later Tableau Cloud June 2023). Not available for Tableau Server.

URI

POST /api/api-version/sites/site-luid/dataAlerts

URI Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.20. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-luid The LUID for the site.

Request Body

Copy 
<tsRequest>
  <dataAlertCreateAlert
    alertCondition="above"
    alertThreshold="14000"
    subject="Data Driven Alert for Forecast"
    frequency="daily"    
    visibility="public"
    device="desktop"
    worksheetName="one_measure_no_dimension"
    viewId="my-view-id"
    <!-- OR customViewId="my-custom-view-id"> -->
  /> 
</tsRequest>

Copy 
{
  "dataAlertCreateAlert": {
    "alertCondition": "above",
    "alertThreshold": "14000",
    "subject": "Data Driven Alert for Forecast",
    "frequency": "daily",
    "visibility": "public",
    "device": "desktop",
    "worksheetName": "one_measure_no_dimension",
    "viewId": "my-view-id"
    // can be "customViewId" instead
  }
}

Request Attributes

dataAlertCreateAlert alertCondition

(Required) Enumeration: The condition that triggers the DDA. Used in conjunction with the threshold to determine when to trigger an alert. For example, an alert can be triggered if on the condition that data is above or equal to a threshold of 1000 orders. The value can be:

  • above
  • above-equal
  • below
  • below-equal
  • equal
dataAlertCreateAlert alertThreshold (Required) Int: The data value where an alert should be triggered when that value drops below or rises above the alert threshold value.
dataAlertCreateAlert subject (Required) String: The name of the data driven alert.
dataAlertCreateAlert frequency

(Required) Enumeration: The time period between attempts by Tableau to assess whether the alert threshold has been crossed. The value can be one of:

  • once Sends the alert only the first time the alert threshold is crossed.
  • freguently As frequently as possible given server conditions.
  • hourly
  • daily
  • weekly
dataAlertCreateAlert visibility (Required) Enumeration: Determines whether the alert can be seen by only its creator (private), or by any user with permissions to the worksheet where the alert resides (public) . The value can be one of:
  • private
  • public
dataAlertCreateAlert device

(Optional) Enumeration: The type of device the alert is formatted for. If no device is provided then the default device setting of the underlying view is used. Values can be one of:

  • desktop
  • phone
  • tablet
dataAlertCreateAlert worksheetName

(Required) String: The name of the worksheet that the DDA will be created on.

For dashboards, this is the name of the underlying sheet that contains the data whose value can trigger the alert, not the name of the dashboard that presents that sheet.

For custom views, the name of the original view that was used to form the custom view.

dataAlertCreateAlert viewId

OR

dataAlertCreateAlert customViewId

(Required) LUID: The LUID of either the viewId or customViewId that contains the data that can trigger an alert.

cURL Request Example

curl http://MY-SERVER/api/3.20/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/datasources/1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d/connections" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

Response Code

200

Response Body

Copy 
<tsRequest>
  <dataAlertCreateAlert
    alertCondition="above"
    alertThreshold="14000"
    subject="Data Driven Alert for Forecast"
    frequency="daily"    
    visibility="public"
    device="desktop"
    worksheetName="one_measure_no_dimension"
    viewId="my-view-id"
    <!-- OR customViewId="my-custom-view-id"> -->
  /> 
</tsRequest>
Copy 
{
  "dataAlertCreateAlert": {
    "alertCondition": "above",
    "alertThreshold": "14000",
    "subject": "Data Driven Alert for Forecast",
    "frequency": "daily",
    "visibility": "public",
    "device": "desktop",
    "worksheetName": "one_measure_no_dimension",
    "viewId": "my-view-id"
    // can be "customViewId" instead
  }
}

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
400 400000 Bad Request The content of the request body is missing or incomplete, or contains malformed XML.
400 403165 DDA creation failed A data driven alert could not be created because there is a missing value in the request body.
401 401002 Unauthorized Access The user does not have permissions to create a data driven alert. Causes may include: authentication token provided in the request header was invalid or has expired; the user does not have administrator, creator, or explorer permissions; the user does not have permissions to view the sheet.
403 403164 DDA not enabled Data driven alerts are not enabled for the site, or the user visibility site setting is configured as limited.
404 404011 View not found The view specified in the request could not be found.
404 409004 Request is malformed A data driven alert could not be created because there is an unexpected value in the request body.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Create a Webhook

Creates a new webhook for a site.

URI

POST /api/3.6/sites/<site-id>/webhooks

Parameter Values

site-id The ID of the site in which you want to create the webhook.  

Request Body

<tsRequest>
  <webhook
    name="webhook-name"
    isEnabled="webhook-enabled-flag"
    event="api-event-name">
      <webhook-source>
        <webhook-source-api-event-name />
      </webhook-source>
      <webhook-destination>
        <webhook-destination-http method="POST" url="url"/>
     </webhook-destination>
  </webhook>
</tsRequest>

Attribute Values

webhook-name This is required. A name for the webhook.
api-event-name | webhook-source-api-event-name

You must specify one of these attribute values. The name of the Tableau event that triggers your webhook. The event name must be one of the supported events listed in the Trigger Events table. The event and webhook-source use different name values for the same event. 

Recommended: Use the event attribute of the webhook to specify the triggering API event for the webhook. The webhook-source element serves the same purpose but is being deprecated in future versions of Tableau webhooks. If both events and webhook-source are specified, their events specified must match. If either are specified, with the other being NULL, then the specified event becomes the webhook trigger, whether the element containing the event name is event or webhook-source.
url Required. The destination URL for the webhook. The webhook destination URL must be https and have a valid certificate.
webhook-enabled-flag (Optional) Boolean. If true (default), the newly created webhook is enabled. If false then the webhook will be disabled.  

Permissions

This method can only be called by server and site administrators.

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <webhook
    id="webhook-id"
    name="webhook-name"
    isEnabled="true-or-false"
    statusChangeReason="status-change-reason"
    event="api-event-name">
      <webhook-source>
        <webhook-source-api-event-name />
      </webhook-source>
      <webhook-destination>
        <webhook-destination-http method="POST" url="url"/>
      </webhook-destination>
        <owner id="webhook_owner_luid" name="webhook_owner_name"/>
  </webhook>
</tsResponse>

Response Headers

Location: /api/3.20/sites/site-id/webhooks/<new-webhook-id>

Delete Data-Driven Alert

Deletes the specified data-driven alert from the specified site.

URI

DELETE /api/api-version/sites/site-id/dataAlerts/data-alert-id

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.20. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the specified data-driven alert.
data-alert-id The ID of the data-driven alert. You can obtain this ID by calling Query Data-Driven Alerts.

Version: Available in API 3.2 (Tableau Cloud / Tableau Server 2018.3) and later. Version Overview(Link opens in a new window)

License: No additional license required.>

Permissions: This method can be called by server and site administrators, and by users who are owners or recipients of the specified data-driven alert.   Permissions Overview(Link opens in a new window)

JWT Access Scope: tableau:data_driven_alerts:delete     Access Scopes Overview: Cloud(Link opens in a new window) | Server-Windows(Link opens in a new window) | Server-Linux(Link opens in a new window)
Available in API 3.20 (Tableau Cloud June 2023). Not available for Tableau Server.

Request Body

None

Response Code

204

Response Body

None

Version

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
403 403004 Delete forbidden A user called this method who does not have the required permissions
404 409023 Resource Not Found The data-driven alert ID specified in the URI is invalid.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID or URL namespace in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not DELETE.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.20/sites/13020592-762f-4de4-a25e-f4beb005836e/dataAlerts/e5a4b73e-5cbb-412d-907e-f31cc31684f7" -X DELETE -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

Delete User from Data-Driven Alert

Removes a specified user from the recipients list for a data-driven alert.

URI

DELETE /api/api-version/sites/site-id/dataAlerts/data-alert-id/users/user-id

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.20. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the specified data-driven alert.
data-alert-id The ID of the data-driven alert. You can obtain this ID by calling Query Data-Driven Alerts.
user-id The ID (not name) of the user to remove from the data-driven alert.

Version: Available in API 3.2 (Tableau Cloud / Tableau Server 2018.3) and later. Version Overview(Link opens in a new window)

License: No additional license required.>

Permissions: This method can only be called by server administrators and site administrators, and by users who are owners of the specified alert.   Permissions Overview(Link opens in a new window)

JWT Access Scope: tableau:data_driven_alerts:update     Access Scopes Overview: Cloud(Link opens in a new window) | Server-Windows(Link opens in a new window) | Server-Linux(Link opens in a new window)
Available in API 3.20 (Tableau Cloud June 2023). Not available for Tableau Server.

Request Body

None

Response Code

204

Response Body

None

Version

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
403 403004 Delete forbidden A user called this method who does not have the required permissions.
403 409029 Deleting recipient from data-driven alert forbidden The user is not authorized to remove the recipient from the data-driven alert.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID or URL namespace in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404002 Resource Not Found The user ID specified in the request body is invalid.
404 409023 Resource Not Found The data-driven alert ID specified in the URI is invalid.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not DELETE.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.20/sites/13020592-762f-4de4-a25e-f4beb005836e/dataAlerts/e5a4b73e-5cbb-412d-907e-f31cc31684f7/users/ff43cb47-f208-4d2f-9a22-0fbb6d29f7f1" -X DELETE -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

Delete a Webhook

Deletes the specified webhook.

URI

DELETE /api/3.6/sites/<site-id>/webhooks/<webhook-id>

Parameter Values

site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook to be deleted.  
webhook-id The ID of the webhook.  

Request Body

None.

Permissions

This method can only be called by server and site administrators.

Response Code

204

Response Body

None.

Get User Notification Preferences

Returns the notification preferences for the specified site. You can filter by channel and notification type. For more information about notifications, see Manage Your Account Settings.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/settings/notifications

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/settings/notifications?filter=filter-expression

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.20. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the users.
filter-expression

(Optional) An expression that lets you specify a subset of notification preferences to return. You can filter on the following fields and corresponding options:

  • channel: email, in_app, and slack
  • notificationType: comments, webhooks, prepflow, share, dataalerts,and extractrefresh

You can include multiple filter expressions. For more information, see Filtering and Sorting.

Request Body

None

Permissions

This method can only be called by a Server Administrator, a Site Administrator Creator, or a Site Administrator Explorer.

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <userNotificationsPreferences>
    <userNotificationsPreference channel="channel"
      notificationType="notification-type"
      enabled="true-or-false"
      disabledByOverride="true-or-false"/>
    <userNotificationsPreference channel="channel"
      notificationType="notification-type"
      enabled="true-or-false"
      disabledByOverride="true-or-false"/>
   <!-- ... additional notification preferences ... -->
  </userNotificationsPreferences>
</tsResponse>

Version

Version 3.15 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
400 409109 Invalid request Invalid notification type.
400 409100 Invalid request Invalid channel.
403 403004 Invalid permissions Invalid permission to update site user notification settings.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
405 405000 Invalid request method The request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

Example response: 

<tsResponse>
  <userNotificationsPreferences>
    <userNotificationsPreference channel="email"
      notificationType="comments"
      enabled="true"
      disabledByOverride="false"/>
    <userNotificationsPreference channel="email"
      notificationType="webhooks"
      enabled="true"
      disabledByOverride="false"/>
    <userNotificationsPreference channel="email"
      notificationType="prepflow" enabled="true"
      disabledByOverride="false"/>
    <userNotificationsPreference channel="email"
      notificationType="share"
      enabled="true"
      disabledByOverride="false"/>
    <userNotificationsPreference channel="email"
      notificationType="dataalerts"
      enabled="true"
      disabledByOverride="true"/>
    <userNotificationsPreference channel="email"
      notificationType="extractrefresh"
      enabled="true"
      disabledByOverride="false"/>
    <userNotificationsPreference channel="in_app"
      notificationType="comments"
      enabled="true"
      disabledByOverride="false"/>
    <userNotificationsPreference channel="in_app"
      notificationType="prepflow"
      enabled="true"
      disabledByOverride="false"/>
    <userNotificationsPreference channel="in_app"
      notificationType="share"
      enabled="true"
      disabledByOverride="false"/>
    <userNotificationsPreference channel="in_app"
      notificationType="extractrefresh"
      enabled="true"
      disabledByOverride="false"/>
    <userNotificationsPreference channel="slack"
      notificationType="comments"
      enabled="true"
      disabledByOverride="false"/>
    <userNotificationsPreference channel="slack"
      notificationType="prepflow"
      enabled="true"
      disabledByOverride="false"/>
    <userNotificationsPreference channel="slack"
      notificationType="share"
      enabled="true"
      disabledByOverride="false"/>
     <userNotificationsPreference channel="slack"
      notificationType="dataalerts"
      enabled="true"
      disabledByOverride="false"/>
  </userNotificationsPreferences>
</tsResponse>

Get a Webhook

Returns information about the specified webhook.

URI

GET /api/3.6/sites/<site-id>/webhooks/<webhook-id>

Parameter Values

site-id The ID of the site that contains the webhook. 
webhook-id The ID of the webhook.  

Request Body

None

Permissions

This method can only be called by server administrators.

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <webhook
    id="webhook-id"
    name="webhook-name"
    isEnabled="true"
    statusChangeReason=""
    event="api-event-name">
      <webhook-source>
        <webhook-source-api-event-name />
      </webhook-source>
      <webhook-destination>
        <webhook-destination-http method="POST" url="url"/>
      </webhook-destination>
      <owner id="webhook_owner_luid" name="webhook_owner_name"/>
  </webhook>
</tsResponse>

List Webhooks

Returns a list of all the webhooks on the specified site.

URI

GET /api/3.6/sites/<site-id>/webhooks

Parameter Values

site-id The ID of the site that contains the webhooks.   

Request Body

None

Permissions

This method can only be called by server and site administrators.

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <webhooks>
    <webhook
      id="webhook-id"
      name="webhook-name"
      isEnabled="true"
      statusChangeReason=""
      event="api-event-name">
        <webhook-source>
          <webhook-source-api-event-name />
        </webhook-source>
        <webhook-destination>
          <webhook-destination-http method="POST" url="url"/>
        </webhook-destination>
        <owner id="webhook_owner_luid" name="webhook_owner_name"/>
  </webhook>
  <!--  ... additional webhooks ...  -->
  </webhooks>
</tsResponse>

List Data-Driven Alerts on Site

Returns a list of data-driven alerts in use on the specified site.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/dataAlerts

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/dataAlerts?pageSize=page-size&pageNumber=page-number

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/dataAlerts?filter=viewId:eq:view-luid

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.20. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains data-driven alerts.

Version: Available in API 3.2 (Tableau Cloud / Tableau Server 2018.3) and later. Version Overview(Link opens in a new window)

License: No additional license required.>

Permissions: This method can only be called by server administrators and site administrators, and by users who are owners of the specified alert.   Permissions Overview(Link opens in a new window)

JWT Access Scope: tableau:data_driven_alerts:read     Access Scopes Overview: Cloud(Link opens in a new window) | Server-Windows(Link opens in a new window) | Server-Linux(Link opens in a new window)
Available in API 3.20 (Tableau Cloud June 2023). Not available for Tableau Server.

Request Body

None

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <pagination pageNumber="1" pageSize="100" totalAvailable="1"/>
  <dataAlerts>
    <dataAlert id="alert-id" subject="alert-subject" creatorId="creator-id" createdAt="created-date" updatedAt="updated-date" frequency="alert-frequency" public="is-public-flag">
      <owner id="owner-id" name="username"/>
      <view id="view-id" name="view-name">
        <workbook id="workbook-id" name="workbook-name"/>
        <project id="project-id" name="project-name"/>
      </view>
    </dataAlert>
  </dataAlerts>
</tsResponse>

The createdAt and updatedAt values are dates and times in UTC format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ).

Version

Version 3.2 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
400 400006 Invalid page number The page number parameter is not an integer, is less than one, or is greater than the final page number for the sites at the requested page size.
400 400007 Invalid page size The page size parameter is not an integer, or is less than one.
403 403004 Read forbidden A user queried this method who does not have the required permissions
403 403014 Page size limit exceeded The specified page size is larger than the maximum page size.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID or URL namespace in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.20/sites/13020592-762f-4de4-a25e-f4beb005836e/dataAlerts" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

Example response:

<tsResponse>
  <dataAlerts>
    <dataAlert id="e5a4b73e-5cbb-412d-907e-f31cc31684f7" subject="Data alert - Shipping" creatorId="8eda27d9-5ad2-42cd-a39a-61bc01a423af" createdAt="2018-08-13T20:55:29Z" updatedAt="2018-08-21T00:05:34Z" frequency="daily" public="true">
      <owner id="8eda27d9-5ad2-42cd-a39a-61bc01a423af" name="admin"/>
      <view id="defbf126-5e8b-4c12-9c55-6e772c91bf62" name="Shipping">
        <workbook id="4c384398-085c-4236-91a0-4f92bee1c9ba" name="Superstore"/>
        <project id="291de556-9f2b-11e8-a25f-631b5eb7ad77" name="Default"/>
      </view>
    </dataAlert>
  </dataAlerts>
</tsResponse>

Get Data-Driven Alert

Returns details on a specified data-driven alert, including the recipients of the alert.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/dataAlerts/data-alert-id

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.20. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the specified data-driven alert.
data-alert-id The ID of the data-driven alert. You can obtain this ID by calling Query Data-Driven Alerts.

Version: Available in API 3.20 (Tableau Cloud June 2023) and later. Not available for Tableau Server. Version Overview(Link opens in a new window)

License: No additional license required.

Permissions: Users with the Administrator, Creator, or Explorer role can add DDAs to views they have permissions to.   Permissions Overview(Link opens in a new window)

JWT Access Scope: tableau:data_driven_alerts:read     Access Scopes Overview: Cloud(Link opens in a new window) | Server-Windows(Link opens in a new window) | Server-Linux(Link opens in a new window)

Request Body

None

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <dataAlert id="alert-id" subject="alert-subject" creatorId="creator-id" createdAt="created-date" updatedAt="updated-date" frequency="alert-frequency" public="is-public-flag">
    <owner id="owner-id" name="username"/>
      <view id="view-id" name="view-name">
        <workbook id="workbook-id" name="workbook-name"/>
        <project id="project-id" name="project-name"/>
      </view>
      <recipients>
        <recipient id="recipient-id"/>
      </recipients>
  </dataAlert>
</tsResponse>

The createdAt and updatedAt values are dates and times in UTC format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ).

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
403 403004 Read forbidden A user queried this method who does not have the required permissions
404 409023 Resource Not Found The data-driven alert ID specified in the URI is invalid.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID or URL namespace in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.20/sites/13020592-762f-4de4-a25e-f4beb005836e/dataAlerts/e5a4b73e-5cbb-412d-907e-f31cc31684f7" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

Example response:

<tsResponse>
  <dataAlert id="e5a4b73e-5cbb-412d-907e-f31cc31684f7" subject="Data alert - Shipping" creatorId="8eda27d9-5ad2-42cd-a39a-61bc01a423af" createdAt="2018-08-13T20:55:29Z" updatedAt="2018-08-21T00:05:34Z" frequency="daily" public="true">
    <owner id="8eda27d9-5ad2-42cd-a39a-61bc01a423af" name="admin"/>
    <view id="defbf126-5e8b-4c12-9c55-6e772c91bf62" name="Shipping">
      <workbook id="4c384398-085c-4236-91a0-4f92bee1c9ba" name="Superstore"/>
      <project id="291de556-9f2b-11e8-a25f-631b5eb7ad77" name="Default"/>
    </view>
    <recipients>
      <recipient id="4"/>
    </recipients>
  </dataAlert>
</tsResponse>

Test a Webhook

Tests the specified webhook. Sends an empty payload to the configured destination URL of the webhook and returns the response from the server. This is useful for testing, to ensure that things are being sent from Tableau and received back as expected.

URI

GET /api/3.6/sites/<site-id>/webhooks/<webhook-id>/test

Parameter Values

site-id The ID of the site that contains the webhook.  
webhook-id The ID of the webhook.  

Request Body

None.

Permissions

This method can only be called by server and site administrators.

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <webhookTestResult id="9f9bcaf8-8c4c-403c-b7e1-10dd85620f00" status="200">
    <body></body>
  </webhookTestResult>
</tsResponse>

Update Data-Driven Alert

Update one or more settings for the specified data-driven alert; including the alert subject, frequency, and owner.

URI

PUT /api/api-version/sites/site-id/dataAlerts/data-alert-id

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.20. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the data-driven alert.
data-alert-id The ID of the data-driven alert. You can obtain this ID by calling Query Data-Driven Alerts.

Version: Available in API 3.2 (Tableau Cloud / Tableau Server 2018.3) and later. Version Overview(Link opens in a new window)

License: No additional license required.>

Permissions: This method can only be called by server administrators and site administrators, and by users who are owners of the specified alert.   Permissions Overview(Link opens in a new window)

JWT Access Scope: tableau:data_driven_alerts:update     Access Scopes Overview: Cloud(Link opens in a new window) | Server-Windows(Link opens in a new window) | Server-Linux(Link opens in a new window)
Available in API 3.20 (Tableau Cloud June 2023). Not available for Tableau Server.

Request Body

<tsRequest>
    <dataAlert subject="data-alert-subject"
        frequency="data-alert-frequency" public="is-public-flag">
            <owner id="data-alert-owner-id"/>
    </dataAlert>
 </tsRequest>

Attribute Values

data-alert-subject (Optional) The string to set as the new subject of the alert.
data-alert-frequency (Optional) The frequency of the data-driven alert: once, frequently, hourly, daily, or weekly.
data-alert-owner-id (Optional) The ID of the user to assign as owner of the data-driven alert.
is-public-flag (Optional) Determines the visibility of the data-driven alert. If the flag is true, users with access to the view containing the alert can see the alert and add themselves as recipients. If the flag is false, then the alert is only visible to the owner, site or server administrators, and specific users they add as recipients. (Optional) Determines the visibility of the data-driven alert. If the flag is true, users with access to the view containing the alert can see the alert and add themselves as recipients. If the flag is false, then the alert is only visible to the owner, site or server administrators, and specific users they add as recipients.

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <dataAlert id="data-alert-id" subject="data-alert-subject" creatorId="user-id"
    createdAt="created-date" updatedAt="updated-date" frequency="data-alert-frequency" public="is-public-flag">
    <owner id="user-id" name="user-name" />
    <view id="view-id" name="view-name" >
      <workbook id="workbook-id" name="workbook-name" />
      <project id="project-id" name="project-name" />
    </view>
  </dataAlert>
</tsResponse>

The createdAt and updatedAt attribute values are returned in UTC format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ).

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
403 403004 Write forbidden A user called this method who does not have the required permissions.
403 409030 Updating data-driven alert forbidden The user is not authorized to update the data-driven alert.
404 409023 Resource Not Found The data-driven alert ID specified in the URI is invalid.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID or URL namespace in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404002 Resource Not Found The user ID specified in the request body is invalid.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not PUT.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.20/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/dataAlerts/1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d" -X PUT -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd" -d @update-alert.xml

Content of update-alert.xml: 

<tsRequest>
    <dataAlert subject="Data alert - Shipping" frequency="daily" public="true">
        <owner id="8eda27d9-5ad2-42cd-a39a-61bc01a423af"/>
    </dataAlert>
</tsRequest>

Example response:

<tsResponse>
  <dataAlert id="c60bbd4e-dd98-469f-bf71-83c42378f427" subject="Data alert - Shipping"
    creatorId="8eda27d9-5ad2-42cd-a39a-61bc01a423af" createdAt="2018-08-22T23:16:41Z"
    updatedAt="2018-08-24T20:27:14Z" frequency="daily" public="true">
    <owner id="8eda27d9-5ad2-42cd-a39a-61bc01a423af" name="admin"/>
    <view id="defbf126-5e8b-4c12-9c55-6e772c91bf62" name="Shipping">
      <workbook id="4c384398-085c-4236-91a0-4f92bee1c9ba" name="Superstore"/>
      <project id="291de556-9f2b-11e8-a25f-631b5eb7ad77" name="Default"/>
    </view>
  </dataAlert>
</tsResponse>

Update User Notification Preferences

Updates user notifications preferences to enabled or disabled on the specified site. For more information about notifications, see Manage Your Account Settings.

URI

PATCH /api/api_version/sites/site-id/settings/notifications

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.20. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the user.

Request Body

<tsRequest>
  <userNotificationsPreferences>
    <userNotificationsPreference
      enabled="enabled-flag"
      channel="channel"
      notificationType="notification-type"/>
    <userNotificationsPreference
      enabled="enabled-flag"
      channel="channel"
      notificationType="notification-type"/>
  <userNotificationsPreferences>
</tsRequest>

Attribute Values

enabled-flag (Required, boolean) If true, the specified site notifications will be on. If false, the specified site notifications will be off.
channel (Required, string) Specifies the channel that the notification preferences are to be updated (turned on or off). Valid channels are: email, in_app, and slack.
notification-type

Specifies the notification type for which the notification preferences are to be updated (turned on or off). Valid notification types are: comments, webhooks, prepflow, share, dataalerts,and extractrefresh.

Permissions

This method can only be called by a Server Administrator, a Site Administrator Creator, or a Site Administrator Explorer.

Response Code

  • 200: The request was successful
  • 207: One or more of the updates in the request resulted in an error. See details in the the response body.

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <notificationUpdateResult>
    <notificationUpdateStatus>
      <status>Success</status>
        <userNotificationsPreference channel="channel"
          notificationType="notification-type"
          enabled="enabled-flag"/>
        </notificationUpdateStatus>
    <notificationUpdateStatus>
      <status>Success</status>
        <userNotificationsPreference channel="channel"
          notificationType="notification-type"
          enabled="enabled-flag"/>
    </notificationUpdateStatus>
  </notificationUpdateResult>
</tsResponse>

Version

Version 3.15 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
403 403004 Invalid Permissions Invalid permission to update site user notification settings.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
405 405000 Invalid request method The request type was not PATCH.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example response

<tsResponse>
  <notificationUpdateResult>
    <notificationUpdateStatus>
      <status>Success</status>
        <userNotificationsPreference channel="slack"
          notificationType="comments"
          enabled="false"/>
      </notificationUpdateStatus>
      <notificationUpdateStatus>
        <status>Success</status>
        <userNotificationsPreference channel="email"
          notificationType="comments"
          enabled="false"/>
      </notificationUpdateStatus>
  </notificationUpdateResult>
</tsResponse>

Update a Webhook

Modify the properties of an existing webhook.

URI

PUT /api/3.8/sites/<site-id>/webhooks/<webhook-id>

Parameter Values

site-id The ID of the site that contains the webhook to be updated.  
webhook-id The ID of the webhook.  

Request Body

<tsRequest>
  <webhook name="webhook-name"
    isEnabled="webhook-enabled-flag"
    statusChangeReason="reason-for-disablement"
    event="api-event-name">
      <webhook-source>
        <webhook-source-api-event-name />
      </webhook-source>
      <webhook-destination>
        <webhook-destination-http method="POST" url="url" />
      </webhook-destination>
  </webhook>
</tsRequest>

Attribute Values

webhook-name This is required. A name for the webhook.
api-event-name | webhook-source-api-event-name

You must specify one of these attribute values. The name of the Tableau event that triggers your webhook. The event name must be one of the supported events listed in the Trigger Events table. The event and webhook-source use different name values for the same event. 

Recommended: Use the event attribute of the webhook to specify the triggering API event for the webhook. The webhook-source element serves the same purpose but is being deprecated in future versions of Tableau webhooks. If both events and webhook-source are specified, their events specified must match. If either are specified, with the other being NULL, then the specified event becomes the webhook trigger, whether the element containing the event name is event or webhook-source.
url (Optional) The destination URL for the webhook. The webhook destination URL must be https and have a valid certificate.
webhook-enabled-flag (Optional) Boolean. If true (default), the newly created webhook is enabled. If false then the webhook will be disabled.  
reason-for-disablement

The reason a webhook is disabled.

  • If isEnabled set to true, omit this parameter from your request to create a webhook, or set the value of statusChangeReason to an empty string. Providing a reason value when creating an enabled webhook will result in an error (400127).
  • If isEnabled set to false, then unless you provide a value for statusChangeReason it will default to "Webhook disabled by user".

Permissions

This method can only be called by server and site administrators.

Response Code

201 Success.

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <webhook
    id="webhook-id"
    name="webhook-name"
    isEnabled="true"
    statusChangeReason=""
    event="api-event-name">
      <webhook-source>
        <webhook-source-api-event-name />
      </webhook-source>
      <webhook-destination>
        <webhook-destination-http method="POST" url="url"/>
      </webhook-destination>
      <owner id="webhook_owner_luid" name="webhook_owner_name"/>
  </webhook>
</tsResponse>

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
400 400127 Bad request statusChangeReason was provided with isEnabled = true

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Response Headers

Location: /api/3.20/sites/site-id/webhooks/new-webhook-id

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