Tableau REST API Help

Version: 2021.4

Using the workbooks and views methods of the Tableau Server REST API you can do the operations listed in the following categories:

Workbooks (configurations of data sources and views in a site)

  • Get a filtered, sorted list of all or selected fields of workbooks of a site.
  • Get a list of workbooks a user has read access to or that they own.
  • Get or update the details of a specific workbook.
  • Update (refresh) the extract of a workbook.
  • List the data sources of a workbook or update the details of a datasource.
  • Publish a workbook to a specific site as a single part or in multiple parts.
  • Download or delete a specific workbook.
  • Download a specific revision of a workbook.
  • Download images of the sheets of a workbook as a .pdf or .pptx file.
  • Download the crosstab data of a specific view to an .xlsx file.

Views (sheets of a workbook in a site)

  • Get a filtered, sorted list of all or selected fields of views in a site.
  • Get a list of views for a workbook and the usage statistics for each view.
  • Get the data, a full or thumbnail .png image, or a .pdf of a selected view.
  • Get a thumbnail of the default (first) view of a workbook.

Tags (keywords added to workbooks, views, data sources, and flows)

  • Add or delete tags of a Workbook or Site.

View Recommendations (Recommended Views that are displayed on the server Home and Recommendations pages)

  • Get a list of the currently recommended views on a site.
  • Hide or unhide views from being recommendable to a user by adding them to or removing them from a list of views that are dismissed for the user.

This functionality relates to the UI elements and concepts described at: Workbooks and Sheets(Link opens in a new window).

Add Tags to View

Adds one or more tags to the specified view.

URI

PUT /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id/tags

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
view-id The ID of the views to add tags to.

Request Body

<tsRequest>
  <tags>
    <tag label="tag" />
    ... additional tags ...
  </tags>
</tsRequest>

Attribute Values

view-id The view to add the tag to. If the view is already tagged with a tag that's included in the request body, those tags are ignored and the view retains them. If the <tags> element is empty, no new tags are added to the view.
tag The text of the tag.

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators can call this method only if they have Read permissions for the view (either explicitly or implicitly).

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <tags>
    <tag label="tag"/>
        ... additional new tags ...
        ... existing tags ...
  </tags>
</tsResponse>

Version

Version 1.0 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

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 400076 Error adding tags There was a problem adding tags to the specified view.
403 403004 Adding tags forbidden

A non-administrator user called this method but doesn't have permission to add tags. This error is raised even if the <tags> element is empty.

404 404000 Site not found

The site ID in the URI is not for an existing site.
404 404011 View not found The view ID in URI doesn't correspond to an existing view.
404 404009 Workbook ID mismatch The request body contains a view ID (which is optional) and it doesn't match the ID in the URI.
404 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not PUT.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/views/1f1e1d1c-2b2a-2f2e-3d3c-3b3a4f4e4d4c/tags" -X PUT -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd" -d @add-tags-to-view.xml

Content of add-tags-to-workbook.xml: 

<tsRequest>
    <tags>
      <tag label="GDP" />
      <tag label="Health" />
    </tags>
</tsRequest>

Example response:

<tsResponse version-and-namespace-settings>
  <tags>
    <tag label="GDP"/>
    <tag label="Health"/>
    <tag label="Spending"/>
  </tags>
</tsResponse>

Add Tags to Workbook

Adds one or more tags to the specified workbook.

URI

PUT /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/tags

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
workbook-id The ID of the workbook to add tags to.

Request Body

<tsRequest>
  <tags>
    <tag label="tag" />
    ... additional tags ...
  </tags>
</tsRequest>

Attribute Values

workbook-id The workbook to add the tag to. If the workbook is already tagged with a tag that's included in the request body, those tags are ignored and the workbook retains them. If the <tags> element is empty, no new tags are added to the workbook.
tag The text of the tag.

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators can call this method only if they have Read permissions for the workbook (either explicitly or implicitly).

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <tags>
    <tag label="tag"/>
        ... additional new tags ...
        ... existing tags ...
  </tags>
</tsResponse>

Version

Version 1.0 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

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 400049 Error adding tags There was a problem adding tags to the specified workbook.
403 403004 Adding tags forbidden

A non-administrator user called this method but doesn't have permission to add tags. This error is raised even if the <tags> element is empty.

404 404000 Site not found

The site ID in the URI is not for an existing site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
404 404009 Workbook ID mismatch The request body contains a workbook ID (which is optional) and it doesn't match the ID in the URI.
404 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not PUT.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/workbooks/1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d/tags" -X PUT -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd" -d @add-tags-to-workbook.xml

Content of add-tags-to-workbook.xml: 

<tsRequest>
    <tags>
      <tag label="GDP" />
      <tag label="Health" />
    </tags>
</tsRequest>

Example response:

<tsResponse version-and-namespace-settings>
  <tags>
    <tag label="GDP"/>
    <tag label="Health"/>
    <tag label="Spending"/>
  </tags>
</tsResponse>

Delete Tag from View

Deletes a tag from the specified view.

URI

DELETE /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id/tags/tag-name

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
view-id The ID of the view to remove the tag from.
tag-name The name of the tag to remove from the view.

Request Body

None

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators, site administrators, or workbook owners can delete a tag from a workbook only if they are project leaders or if they originally added the tag.

Response Code

204

Response Body

None

Version

Version 1.0 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
400 400078 Error deleting tag There was a problem deleting the tag from the specified view.
403 403004 Deleting tags forbidden A non-administrator user called this method but doesn't have permission to delete a tag from the specified workbook.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID or URL namespace in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
404 404007 Tag not found The tag in the URI doesn't exist for the specified workbook.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not DELETE.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Delete Tag from Workbook

Deletes a tag from the specified workbook.

URI

DELETE /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/tags/tag-name

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
workbook-id The ID of the workbook to remove the tag from.
tag-name The name of the tag to remove from the workbook.

Request Body

None

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators, site administrators, or workbook owners can delete a tag from a workbook only if they are project leaders or if they originally added the tag.

Response Code

204

Response Body

None

Version

Version 1.0 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
400 400051 Error deleting tag There was a problem deleting the tag from the specified workbook.
403 403004 Deleting tags forbidden A non-administrator user called this method but doesn't have permission to delete a tag from the specified workbook.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID or URL namespace in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
404 404007 Tag not found The tag in the URI doesn't exist for the specified workbook.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not DELETE.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Delete Workbook

Deletes a workbook. When a workbook is deleted, all of its assets are also deleted, including associated views, data connections, and so on.

URI

DELETE /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
workbook-id The ID of the workbook to remove.

Request Body

None

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators can delete a workbook for which they have Read (view) and Delete permissions (either explicitly or implicitly).

Response Code

204

Response Body

None

Version

Version 2.0 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not DELETE.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Download View Crosstab Excel

Downloads an Excel (.xlsx) file containing crosstab data from a view that the user has permission to access in a workbook. If a crosstab is exported from a dashboard, data from only the first view in the dashboard will appear in the .xlsx file. Downloads of data from story dashboards are not supported at this time.

If you make multiple requests for an .xlsx, subsequent calls return a cached version of the file. This means that the returned .xlsx might not include the latest changes to the workbook. To decrease the amount of time that a workbook is cached, use the maxAge parameter.

Note the data exported is at a summary level only. Detail level data is only available as a download option in the user interface.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id/crosstab/excel

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id/crosstab/excel?maxAge=max-age-minutes

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
view-id The ID of the view to use as the source of the crosstab to be downloaded as an .xlsx file.
max-age-minutes (Optional) The maximum number of minutes an .xlsx file will be cached on the server before being refreshed. To prevent multiple .xlsx requests from overloading the server, the shortest interval you can set is one minute. There is no maximum value, but the server job enacting the caching action may expire before a long cache period is reached.

Request Body

None

Permissions

To export a crosstab to an .xlsx of a view, users who are not server administrators or site administrators need Read and ExportData permissions for the workbook containing the view and for the view itself.

Response Code

200

Response Body

This method has no response body. The response is in the form of a downloaded .xlsx file. The response header content will have Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet.

Version

Version 3.9 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
400 400101 Unknown error

There was a problem downloading or querying this file.
400 400130 Unknown error

The view ID in the URI doesn't correspond to a view available on the specified site.
401 4001XX Unauthorized

The authentication token for the request is missing, invalid, or expired.
403 4031XX Unauthorized

A user attempted to download a .xlsx file without Read and/or ExportData permissions for the workbook or view, and is not an administrator.

404 404xxx Site or view not found The site or view specified in the request could not be found.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.9/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/views/9f9e9d9c-8b8a-8f8e-7d7c-7b7a6f6d6e6d/crosstab/excel?maxAge=60" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

The response is a file that contains the crosstab, whose data is no older than 60 minutes, saved as an .xlsx file.

Download Workbook

Downloads a workbook in .twb or .twbx format.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/content

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/content?includeExtract=extract-value

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
workbook-id The ID of the workbook to download.
extract-value (Optional) The extract-value is a Boolean value (False or True). When the workbook specified for download has an extract, if you add the parameter ?includeExtract=False, the extract is not included when you download the workbook. You can use this option to improve performance if you are downloading workbooks or data sources that have large extracts.

Request Body

None

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators can download a workbook only if they have ExportXml permission for the workbook (either explicitly or implicitly).

Response Code

200

Response Body

One of the following, depending on the format of the workbook:

  • The workbook's content in .twb format (Content-Type: application/xml)
  • The workbook's content in .twbx format (Content-Type: application/octet-stream)

In both cases, the response will have the following content disposition header:

Content-Disposition: name="tableau_workbook"; filename="workbook-filename"

Version

Version 2.0 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
403 403019 Read forbidden A non-administrator user attempted to download a workbook, but the caller doesn't have ExportXml permission.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/workbooks/1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d/content" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd" > c:\files\my-workbook.twbx

The response is a file that contains the workbook.

Download Workbook Excel

Downloads an Excel (.xlsx) file containing crosstab data from a view that the user has permission to access in a workbook. If a crosstab is exported from a dashboard, data from only the first view in the dashboard will appear in the .xlsx file.

If you make multiple requests for an .xlsx, subsequent calls return a cached version of the file. This means that the returned .xlsx might not include the latest changes to the workbook. To decrease the amount of time that a workbook is cached, use the maxAge parameter.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id/crosstab/excel

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id/crosstab/excel?maxAge=max-age-minutes

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
view-id The ID of the view to use as the source of the crosstab to be downloaded as an .xlsx file.
max-age-minutes (Optional) The maximum number of minutes an .xlsx file will be cached on the server before being refreshed. To prevent multiple .xlsx requests from overloading the server, the shortest interval you can set is one minute. There is no maximum value, but the server job enacting the caching action may expire before a long cache period is reached.

Request Body

None

Permissions

To export a crosstab to an .xlsx of a view, Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators need Read and ExportImage permissions for the workbook containing the view and for the view itself.

Response Code

200

Response Body

This method has no response body. The response is in the form of a downloaded .xlsx file. The response header content will have Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet.

Version

Version 3.8 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
400 400101 Unknown error

There was a problem downloading or querying this workbook.
400 400130 Unknown error

The view ID in the URI doesn't correspond to a view available on the specified site.
401 4001XX Unauthorized

The authentication token for the request is missing, invalid, or expired.
403 4031XX Unauthorized

A user attempted to download a .xlsx filewithout Read and/or ExportImage permissions for the workbook or view, and is not an administrator.

404 404xxx Site or viewnot found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.9/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/views/9f9e9d9c-8b8a-8f8e-7d7c-7b7a6f6d6e6d/crosstab/excel?maxAge=60" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

The response is a file that contains the crosstab, whose data is no older than 60 minutes, saved as an .xlsx file.

Download Workbook PDF

Downloads a .pdf containing images of the sheets that the user has permission to view in a workbook. Download Images/PDF permissions must be enabled for the workbook (true by default). If Show sheets in tabs is not selected for the workbook, only the default tab will appear in the .pdf file.

If you make multiple requests for a PDF, subsequent calls return a cached version of the file. This means that the returned PDF might not include the latest changes to the workbook. To decrease the amount of time that a workbook is cached, use the maxAge parameter.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/pdf?type=page-type&orientation=page-orientation

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/pdf?maxAge=max-age-minutes

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
workbook-id The ID of the workbook to use as the source of the .pdf file to be downloaded.
max-age-minutes (Optional) The maximum number of minutes a workbook PDF will be cached before being refreshed. To prevent multiple PDF requests from overloading the server, the shortest interval you can set is one minute. There is no maximum value, but the server job enacting the caching action may expire before a long cache period is reached.
page-orientation (Optional) The orientation of the pages in the .pdf file produced. The value can be Portrait or Landscape. If this parameter is not present the page orientation will default to Portrait.
page-type

(Optional) The type of page, which determines the page dimensions of the .pdf file returned. The value can be: A3, A4, A5, B5, Executive, Folio, Ledger, Legal, Letter, Note, Quarto, or Tabloid.

If this parameter is not present the page type will default to Legal.

Request Body

None

Permissions

To download a .pdf of a workbook, Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators need Read and ExportImage permissions for the workbook. The user needs Read and ExportImage permissions for a view in a workbook in order for that view to appear in the .pdf.

Response Code

200

Response Body

This method has no response body. The response is in the form of a downloaded .pdf file. The response header content will have Content-Type:application/pdf.

Version

Version 3.4 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
400 400101 Unknown error

There was a problem downloading or querying this workbook.
403 403004 Unauthorized

A non-administrator user attempted to download a pdf, but they don't have Read and/or ExportImage permissions for the workbook or user does not have Read permissions for the views of the workbook.
403 403105 Unauthorized

The PDF export feature is disabled on the server or the server is not configured to allow PDF exports using the REST API.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/workbooks/1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d/pdf?maxAge=60" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd" -o "response.pdf"

The response is a file that contains the workbook, whose data is no older than 60 minutes, saved as a pdf.

Download Workbook PowerPoint

Downloads a PowerPoint (.pptx) file containing slides with images of the sheets that the user has permission to view in a workbook. Download Images/PDF permissions must be enabled for the workbook (true by default). If Show sheets in tabs is not selected for the workbook, only the default tab will appear in the .pptx file.

If you make multiple requests for a .pptx, subsequent calls return a cached version of the file. This means that the returned .pptx might not include the latest changes to the workbook. To decrease the amount of time that a workbook is cached, use the maxAge parameter.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/powerpoint

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/powerpoint?maxAge=max-age-minutes

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
workbook-id The ID of the workbook to use as the source of the .pptx file to be downloaded.
max-age-minutes (Optional) The maximum number of minutes a workbook .pptx will be cached before being refreshed. To prevent multiple .pptx requests from overloading the server, the shortest interval you can set is one minute. There is no maximum value, but the server job enacting the caching action may expire before a long cache period is reached.

Request Body

None

Permissions

To download a .pptx of a workbook, Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators need Read and ExportImage permissions for the workbook. The user needs Read and ExportImage permissions for a view in a workbook in order for that view to appear in the .pptx.

Response Code

200

Response Body

This method has no response body. The response is in the form of a downloaded .pptx file. The response header content will have Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation.

Version

Version 3.8 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
400 400101 Unknown error

There was a problem downloading or querying this workbook.
401 4001XX Unknown error

There was a problem downloading or querying this workbook.
403 4031XX Unauthorized

A non-administrator user attempted to download a .pptx file, but they don't have Read and/or ExportImage permissions for the workbook or user does not have Read permissions for the views of the workbook.
403 403105 Unauthorized

The PowerPoint export feature is disabled on the server or the server is not configured to allow PowerPoint exports using the REST API.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/workbooks/1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d/powerpoint?maxAge=60" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd" -o "response.pptx"

The response is a file that contains the workbook, whose data is no older than 60 minutes, saved as a .pptx.

Download Workbook Revision

Downloads a specific version of a workbook in .twb or .twbx format.

Note: This method is available only if version history is enabled for the specified site. For more information, see Maintain a History of Revisions(Link opens in a new window) in the Tableau Server Help.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/revisions/revision-number/content

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/revisions/revision-number/content?includeExtract=extract-value

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
workbook-id The ID of the workbook to download.
revision-number The revision number of the workbook to download. To determine what versions are available, call Get Workbook Revisions. Note that the current revision of a workbook cannot be accessed by this call; use Download Workbook instead.
extract-value (Optional) The extract-value is a Boolean value (False or True). When the workbook specified for download has an extract, if you add the parameter ?includeExtract=False, the extract is not included when you download the workbook. You can use this option to improve performance if you are downloading workbooks or data sources that have large extracts.

Request Body

None

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are site administrators can download workbook revisions on the site that they are administrators for. Users who are not server administrators or site administrators can download workbook revisions if they have all of the following:

  • A site role of ExplorerCanPublish.
  • Read (view), Write (save), and Download (save as) permissions for the specified workbook.
  • Save (write) permissions for the project that contains the workbook.

Response Code

200

Response Body

One of the following, depending on the format of the workbook:

  • The workbook's content in .twb format (Content-Type: application/xml)
  • The workbook's content in .twbx format (Content-Type: application/octet-stream)

In both cases, the response will have the following content disposition header:

Content-Disposition: name="tableau_workbook"; filename="workbook-filename"

Version

Version 2.3 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
403 403053 Version history not enabled version history is not enabled for the specified site.
403 403019 Read forbidden A non-administrator user attempted to download a workbook, but the caller doesn't have required permissions.
404 404024 Workbook revision not found The revision number in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing data source revision.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Get View

Gets the details of a specific view.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the group.
view-id The ID of the view whose details are requested.

Request Body

None

Permissions

For Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators, the method returns only the views that the user owns or has Read permissions for (either explicitly or implicitly).

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
	<view id="view-id"
	  name="view-name"
	  contentUrl="path-to-view"
	  createdAt="created-date"
	  updatedAt="updated-date"
	  viewUrlName="view-url-name">
	    <workbook id="workbook-id"/>
		<owner id="owner-id"/>
		<project id="project-id"/>
		<tags/>
	</view>
</tsResponse>

The value of view-url-name is the name of the view in its URL. For example, if a view named View 1 shows the URL https://MY_SERVER/#/site/MY_SITE/views/VIEW_1 in your browser address bar, then the view-url-name would be VIEW_1. Modifying the name (display name) of a view will not impact the view-url-name (path element of the view's URL).

Version

Version 3.0 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Resource not found The view ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing view.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/views/1a2b3c4d-5e6f-7a8b-9c0d-1e2f3a4b5c6ds" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:RDEj_zqgQtGGcCiD3BXnSA|abXWv8thv5ocrXLNU7axCicQu3UdfgeX"

Example response:

<tsResponse>
  <view id="57dc5674-23aa-4a83-b3d4-8653cf3c735f"
	name="Sheet 1"
	contentUrl="workbook/sheets/Sheet1"
	createdAt="2019-05-07T17:59:42Z"
	updatedAt="2019-05-07T17:59:48Z"
	viewUrlName="view-name">
	  <workbook id="0cee459c-9640-4d10-a33d-c6ee98b72beb"/>
	  <owner id="1b526a10-048b-4d1d-96e7-e12ec7f46388"/>
	  <project id="0ef6e0e6-b775-4d0c-8a1c-1b82e6343526"/>
	  <tags/>
  </view>
</tsResponse>

Get View by Path

Gets the details of all views in a site with a specified name.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views?filter=viewUrlName:eq:view-name

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the group.
view-name The name of the view as it appears in the URL to the view. For https://MY_SERVER/#/MY_SITE/views/workbook-name/Sheet1?:iid=1, the name would be Sheet1.

Request Body

None

Permissions

For Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators, the method returns only the views that the user owns or has Read permissions for (either explicitly or implicitly).

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
	<view id="view-id"
	  name="view-name"
	  contentUrl="path-to-view"
	  createdAt="created-date"
	  updatedAt="updated-date"
	  viewUrlName="view-name"  >
		<workbook id="workbook-id"
		<owner id="ownwer-ide"
		<project id="product-id"
		<tags/>
	</view>
	<!--      . . .more views with the same name. . .      -->
</tsResponse>

The value of view-url-name is the name of the view in its URL. For example, if a view named View 1 shows the URL https://MY_SERVER/#/site/MY_SITE/views/VIEW_1 in your browser address bar, then the view-url-name would be VIEW_1. Modifying the name (display name) of a view will not impact the view-url-name (path element of the view's URL).

Version

Version 3.6 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Resource not found The view ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing view.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/views?filter=viewUrlName:eq:Sheet1" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:RDEj_zqgQtGGcCiD3BXnSA|abXWv8thv5ocrXLNU7axCicQu3UdfgeX"

Example response:

<tsResponse>
  <view id="57dc5674-23aa-4a83-b3d4-8653cf3c735f"
	name="Sheet 1"
	contentUrl="workbook/sheets/Sheet1"
	createdAt="2019-05-07T17:59:42Z"
	updatedAt="2019-05-07T17:59:48Z">
	viewUrlName="Sheet1" >
 	  <workbook id="0cee459c-9640-4d10-a33d-c6ee98b72beb"/>
	  <owner id="1b526a10-048b-4d1d-96e7-e12ec7f46388"/>
	  <project id="0ef6e0e6-b775-4d0c-8a1c-1b82e6343526"/>
	  <tags/>
  </view>
</tsResponse>

Get Recommendations for Views

Gets a list of views that are recommended for a user. Using machine learning, the server will match preferences between similar users and recommend content that is most popular and recently viewed. When a recommended view is selected and not marked as hidden, it appears on the server Home and Recommendations pages.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/recommendations/?type=view

Path Parameters

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The LUID of the site that contains the group.

Request Body

None

Permissions

This method can be called by any site user or administrator.

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsRequest>
 <recommendations>
   <recommendation score="recommendation_score">
     <view id="view_id" />
     <similarUsersExplanation>
       <users>
         <user id="user_id_1" />
         <user id="user_id_2" />
       </users>
     </similarUsersExplanation>
   </recommendation>
   <recommendation score="recommendation_score">
     <view id="view_id" />
     <popularExplanation />
   </recommendation>
 </recommendations>
</tsRequest>

Version

Version 3.7 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
404 404000 Site not found The site ID 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/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/recommendations?type=view" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

Example response: 

<tsRequest>
 <recommendations>
   <recommendation score="94.100233876">
     <view id="0f0d33ac-027d-42a7-94bf-4f0b13e07652" />
     <similarUsersExplanation>
       <users>
         <user id="9f9e9d9c-8b8a-8f8e-7d7c-7b7a6f6d6e6d" />
         <user id="f33n9d9c-8b8a-8f8e-7d7c-7b7a6f6d0p12" />
       </users>
     </similarUsersExplanation>
   </recommendation>
   <recommendation score="94.038491833">
     <view id="w33533ac-027d-42a7-94bf-4f0b13e0so32" />
     <popularExplanation />
   </recommendation>
 </recommendations>
</tsRequest>

Get Workbook Downgrade Info

Returns a list of the features that would be impacted, and the severity of the impact, when a workbook is exported as a downgraded version (for instance, exporting a v2019.3 workbook to a v10.5 version).

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/downGradeInfo?productVersion=downgrade-target-version

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook that downgrade info is being shown for.
workbook-id The ID of the workbook being downgraded.
downgrade-target-version The Tableau release version number the workbook is being downgraded to.

Request Body

None

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are site administrators can get downgrade information for workbooks on the site that they are administrators for. Users who are not server administrators or site administrators can get downgrade information for workbooks they have permissions to.

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <downgradeInfo>
	<downgradedFeature name="feature-downgraded-name" severity="level-of-severity"/>
	<!-- more downgraded feature info -->
  </downgradeInfo>
</tsResponse>

Version

Version 3.5 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
400 400114 Unknown downgrade error The workbook cannot be exported to a downgraded version due to an unknown error.
400 400115 Invalid downgrade version The downgrade version specified is not a valid Tableau version number.
400 400116 Downgrade version not supported The downgrade version specified refers to a Tableau version that is not supported.
403 40310 Access to downgrade info denied The caller does not have permissions required to access download info for this workbook.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID 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.

Get Workbook Revisions

Returns a list of revision information (history) for the specified workbook.

Note: This method is available only if version history is enabled for the specified site.

To get a specific version of the workbook from revision history, use the Download Workbook Revision method. For more information, see Maintain a History of Revisions(Link opens in a new window) in the Tableau Server Help.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/revisions

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

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook to get revisions for.
workbook-id The ID of the workbook to get revisions for.
page-size (Optional) The number of items to return in one response. The minimum is 1. The maximum is 1000. The default is 100. For more information, see Paginating Results.
page-number (Optional) The offset for paging. The default is 1. For more information, see Paginating Results.

Request Body

None

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are site administrators can get workbook revisions on the site that they are administrators for. Users who are not server administrators or site administrators can get workbook revisions if they have all of the following:

  • A site role of ExplorerCanPublish.
  • Read (view), Write (save), and Download (save as) permissions for the specified workbook.
  • Save (write) permissions for the project that contains the workbook.

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <pagination pageNumber="pageNumber" pageSize="page-size"
       totalAvailable="total-available" />
  <revisions>
    <revision createdAt="date" revisionNumber="1" isDeleted="false">
      <user id="user-id" name="user-name"/>
    </revision>
    <revision createdAt="date" revisionNumber="2" isDeleted="false">
    </revision>
    <revision createdAt="date" revisionNumber="3" isCurrent="true">
        <user id="user-id" name="user-name"/>
    </revision>
  </revisions>
</tsResponse>

If the revision element includes the attribute isDeleted="true", the workbook has been deleted and cannot be downloaded using the Download Workbook Revision method.

If a user has been deleted from the site, no <user> element is included in the <revision> element.

Version

Version 2.3 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 data sources at the requested page size.
400 400007 Invalid page size The page size parameter is not an integer, or is less than one.
403 403014 Page size limit exceeded The specified page size is larger than the maximum page size.
403 403053 Version history not enabled version history is not enabled for the specified site.
403 403056 A non-administrator user attempted to get workbook revision information, but the caller doesn't have sufficient permissions.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Hide a Recommendation for a View

Hides a view from being recommended by the server by adding it to a list of views that are dismissed for a user. If hidden, a view will not be displayed on the server Home or Recommendation pages.

URI

PUT /api/api-version/sites/site-id/recommendations/dismissals

Path Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the group.

Request Body

<tsRequest>
	<recommendationDismissal>
		<view id="view_luid" />
	</recommendationDismissal>
</tsRequest>

Request Parameters

view-luid The LUID of the view to be added to the list of views hidden from recommendation for a user.

Permissions

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

Response Code

200

Response Body

None

Version

Version 1.0 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

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.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404029 Content not found The content ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing content of the requested type.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not PUT.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/dismissals -X PUT \
-H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd" \
-d "@hide-view.xml"

Content of hide-view.xml

<tsRequest>
  <recommendationDismissal>
    <view id="57dc5674-23aa-4a83-b3d4-8653cf3c735f" />
  </recommendationDismissal>
</tsRequest>

Example response:

No response body. Response code is 204.

Publish Workbook

Publishes a workbook on the specified site. To make changes to a published workbook, call Update Workbook or Update Workbook Connection.

This method is used in two ways. You can call it to publish a workbook in a single request. To do that, you include the content of the workbook file in the body of the request. The maximum size of a file that can be published in a single request is 64 MB. If you want to avoid having the publishing process time out, you can use the asJob parameter to make workbook publication asynchronous.

Alternatively, you can publish a workbook in multiple parts. To do that, you initiate a file upload by calling Initiate File Upload, send portions of the file to the server using Append to File Upload, and then commit the upload by calling Publish Workbook. In this case, Publish Workbook doesn't contain the file to publish.

Hiding views in a published workbook
To exclude certain sheets (also known as views) when you publish a workbook, configure them in the request as hidden. You cannot publish a workbook if all sheets are hidden.

Extracts with multiple table options
If an extract was stored using the multiple tables option, you can't append data to it.

Workbooks that rely on external local resources
When you publish a workbook from your local computer to the server, the publish process will fail if the workbook relies on resources (such as an Excel file or other data file) that are on your local computer but are not available on the server. (Unlike the publish process that is used in Tableau Desktop, the REST API publish process cannot automatically include extracts or other resources that the workbook uses.) If you are publishing a workbook that gets its data from a source on your computer, save the workbook as a packaged workbook (.twbx file) and publish the package so that workbook has all the resources it needs on the server.

For more information, see Publishing Resources.

URI

POST /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks

POST /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks?overwrite=overwrite-flag

POST /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks?skipConnectionCheck=skip-connection-check-flag

POST /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks?uploadSessionId=upload-session-id&workbookType=workbook-file-type&overwrite=bool&asJob=asJob-value

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site to publish to.
overwrite-flag (Optional) true to overwrite a workbook that has the same name, or false to fail if the specified workbook already exists. The default is false. If overwrite-flag is set to true but the workbook doesn't already exist, the operation succeeds.
asJob-value (Optional, boolean) If false, the workbook publishing process runs as a synchronous process. If a workbook is very large, the process might time out before it finishes. If you set this value to true, the process runs asynchronously, and a job will start to perform the publishing process and return the job ID. You can check the status of the import job by calling Query Job. Default value is false.
skip-connection-check-flag (Optional, boolean) If true, then the Tableau server will not check if a non-published connection of a workbook is reachable. Publishing will succeed but unchecked connection issues may result in a non-functioning workbook. If you encounter this issue, follow Keep Data Fresh guidelines(Link opens in a new window). Default value is false.
upload-session-id If you are calling this method to commit a file that was uploaded in parts, this value contains the upload session ID that was generated by a call to Initiate File Upload. If this value is not included, the server assumes that the body of the request contains the file to be published.
workbook-file-type twb or twbx to indicate whether you have uploaded a workbook file (twb) or a packaged workbook file (twbx). This value is required if you are calling Publish Workbook in order to commit a file that was previously uploaded using Append to File Upload. The value is not used if you upload a file in the body of the request.

Request Body

The content type in the header of requests to publish a workbook must use the mixed multipart content type with a boundary string definition, in the form of: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=boundary-string.

Publishing a file in the request body 

--boundary-string
Content-Disposition: name="request_payload"
Content-Type: text/xml
<tsRequest>
  <workbook name="workbook-name" showTabs="show-tabs-flag" thumbnailsUserId="user-luid">
    <connections>
    <connection serverAddress="server-address" serverPort="port-number">
    <connectionCredentials name="connection-username" password="connection-password"
          embed="embed-flag" />
    </connection>
    </connections>
    <project id="project-id"/>
  </workbook>
</tsRequest>
--boundary-string
Content-Disposition: name="tableau_workbook"; filename="workbook-file-name"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
content-of-workbook-file
--boundary-string--

Committing a file previously uploaded 

--boundary-string
Content-Disposition: name="request_payload"
Content-Type: text/xml
<tsRequest>
  <workbook name="workbook-name" showTabs="show-tabs-flag" thumbnailsUserId="user-luid" >
    <connections>
    <connection serverAddress="server-address" serverPort="port-number">
    <connectionCredentials name="connection-username" password="connection-password"
          embed="embed-flag" oAuth="oauth-flag" />
    </connection>
    </connections>
    <project id="project-id"/>
  </workbook>
</tsRequest>
--boundary-string--

Hiding a view when publishing a workbook 

--boundary-string
Content-Disposition: name="request_payload"
Content-Type: text/xml
<tsRequest>
  <workbook name="workbook-name" showTabs="show-tabs-flag" thumbnailsUserId="user-luid" >
    <connections>
      <connection serverAddress="server-address" serverPort="port-number">
        <connectionCredentials name="connection-username" password="connection-password"
           embed="embed-flag" oAuth="oauth-flag" />
	  </connection>
	</connections>
	<views>
      <view name="view-name" hidden="hide-view-flag" />
	</views>
	<project id="project-id"/>
  </workbook>
</tsRequest>
--boundary-string--

Attribute Values

boundary-string A string of characters that is guaranteed to be unique within the body of the request, and that is used to delimit sections of the request body. This value must be declared as a header that has this format:

Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=boundary-string
workbook-name The name to assign to the workbook when it is saved on the server.
show-tabs-flag (Optional) Specify true to have the published workbook show views in tabs; otherwise, false. The default is false.
user-luid (Optional) The LUID of the user to generate thumbnails as. You can get the user LUID by calling Get Users on Site.
server-address (Optional) Specify the server address for a data source connection if that data source does not use OAuth.
port-number (Optional) Specify the port number for a data source connection if that data source does not use OAuth.
connection-username

(Optional) If the workbook's data source connections require credentials, the <connectionCredentials> elements are included and this attribute specifies the connection username. If the element is included but is not required (for example, if the data source uses OAuth), the server ignores the element and its attributes.

Note: Even if credentials are embedded in a workbook, you must still provide credentials when connecting to a data source that requires credentials, unless that data source uses OAuth.
connection-password

(Optional) If the workbook's data source connections require credentials, the <connectionCredentials> elements are included and this attribute specifies the connection password. If the element is included but is not required (for example, if the data source uses OAuth), the server ignores the element and its attributes.

Note: Even if credentials are embedded in a workbook, you must still provide credentials when connecting to a data source that requires credentials, unless that data source uses OAuth.
embed-flag (Optional) If the workbook's data source connection requires credentials, the <connectionCredentials> element is included. Setting this attribute to true instructs the server to save the credentials for when the data source is used.
oauth-flag (Optional) If the workbook's data source connection is configured to use OAuth, set this to true to specify that the value of the name attribute in the <connectionCredentials> element is an OAuth username. In that case, no password is required and the value of the embed attribute specifies whether to embed the OAuth credential with the workbook, and the server address and port number are not required. For more information, see OAuth Connections(Link opens in a new window) in the Tableau Server documentation.
hide-view-flag Setting this flag to true will cause the named view to be hidden in the published workbook. The default value is false. You can specify any number of views to hide. If all views in a workbook are hidden the server will not perform a publish.
project-id The ID of the project to assign the workbook to. If the project is not specified, the workbook will be published to the default project.
workbook-file-name The file name (including extension) of the workbook file to upload. This attribute is used in the request body only if the request also includes the content of the workbook file; it is not used if you are committing a file uploaded using previous requests.
content-of-workbook-file The content of the workbook file, if the request includes the file. The maximum size of a file that can be uploaded in one call is 64 MB.
encryptExtracts (Optional) true to encrypt the extracts or false to not encrypt extracts. For more information, see Extract and Encryption Methods.

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators can publish a workbook only if the workbook belongs to a project that they have permissions to publish to.

Response Code

201

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <workbook
    id="workbook-id"
	  name="workbook-name"
	  contentUrl="site-content-url"
	  webpageUrl="server-address"
	  showTabs="show-tabs-flag"
	  size="num-size"
	  createdAt="workbook-publish-date-time"
	  updatedAt="workbook-update-date-time"
	  encryptExtracts="encryptExtracts" <
 	    <project id="project-id" name="project-name"/>
	    <owner id="workbook-owner-id"/>
	    <tags/>
	    <views>
	      <view
	        id="view-id"
	     	name="view-name"
	        contentUrl="view-content-url"
	        createdAt="view-publish-date-time"
	        updatedAt="view-update-date-time"
	          <tags/>
	 	  </view>
	  <materializedViewsEnablementConfig materializedViewsEnabled="materialized-views-enabled-flag"/>
  </workbook>
</tsResponse>

The datetime-created and datetime-updated attribute values are returned in UTC format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ).

Response Headers

Location: /api/3.14/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id

Version

Version 2.0 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
400 400000 Malformed request body The XML content in the MIME multipart request is not empty.
400 400000 Missing workbook There is no attachment in the request and no uploadSessionID parameter.
400 400000 Unexpected attachments The message had both an uploadSessionId parameter and an attachment, or the request body contained more than one attachment.
400 400008 Invalid embed value The request body contains a <connectionCredentials> element and it has an embed attribute whose value is not true or false.
400 400008 Invalid overwrite value The overwrite parameter must be true or false.
400 400011 Publishing error The workbook could not be published for some other reason than those specified earlier.
400 400020 Invalid workbook file name The name of the workbook doesn't end in .twb or .twbx.
400 400035 Missing or invalid file type The request included an uploadSessionId parameter but no file type, or the file type was something other than .twb or .twbx.
403 403007 Insufficient publishing permission A non-administrator user attempted to publish a workbook, but the caller doesn't have sufficient project permissions.
403 403007 Unlicensed publishing forbidden A non-administrator user attempted to publish a workbook. This is disallowed for all projects (including the default project).
403 403007 Overwrite forbidden A workbook with the specified name already exists and the overwrite parameter was not set to true.
403 403007 Problem connecting to data source There was a problem connecting to a data source used by the workbook. This can be due to missing or invalid connection credentials or because the referenced data source is not available on the server.
403 403008 Insufficient storage quota The workbook could not be published because there is not enough storage remaining on the server to accommodate its size.
403 403130 Publishing overwrite A workbook with the same name already exists.
403 403131 Concurrent update The workbook is already being published in another process.
403 403132 Failed connection check One or more data sources used by the workbook could not be reached.
404 404005 Project not found The project ID in the request body doesn't correspond to an existing project on the site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The user specified overwrite as true but no workbook with the specified name exists on the site.
404 404015 File upload not found The file upload session ID in the uploadSessionId parameter doesn't correspond to an existing file upload on the site.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not POST.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY_SERVER/api/3.4/sites/ff2a8360-3c2b-4b05-a793-7607c602e1fb/workbooks" -X POST -H "X-Tableau-Auth:7T_33sOfS8Ks_0cht4tYxw|8tsTYQyyOZXfOgxZEHWQ4jUTCQ08GhRr" -H "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;" -F "request_payload=@publish-workbook.xml" -F "tableau_workbook=@MY_WORKBOOK.twbx"

Content of publish-workbook.xml (publish the Test1 workbook, hide the Test Sheet 1 view): 

<tsRequest>
	<workbook name="test1" showTabs="true" >
	<project id=""/>
	<views>
	<view name="Test Sheet 1" hidden="true" />
	</views>
	</workbook>
</tsRequest>

Example response:

<tsResponse>
	<workbook
		id="1e40f015-ac41-4377-8238-544f70d36150"
		name="test1" contentUrl="test1"
		webpageUrl="http://MY_SERVER/#/workbooks/3"
		showTabs="true"
		size="1"
		createdAt="2019-04-03T21:24:58Z"
		updatedAt="2019-04-03T21:25:02Z"
		encryptExtracts="false">
		  <project id="e6e94e18-349f-11e9-a794-13e5e0f21c22" name="Default"/>
		  <owner id="1473347e-b0c6-4f1f-bcac-7927ee1a690e"/>
	 	  <tags/>
		  <views>
			<view
			  id="0f0d33ac-027d-42a7-94bf-4f0b13e07652"
			  name="Sheet 1"
			  contentUrl="test1/sheets/Sheet1"
			  createdAt="2019-04-03T21:25:02Z"
		      updatedAt="2019-04-03T21:25:02Z">
			  <tags/>
			</view>
		 <materializedViewsEnablementConfig materializedViewsEnabled="false"/>
	</workbook>
</tsResponse>

Query Views for Site

Returns all the views for the specified site, optionally including usage statistics.

Note: After you create a resource, the server updates its search index. If you make a query immediately to see a new resource, the query results might not be up to date.

URI

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

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views?includeUsageStatistics=get-usage-information

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

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views?includeUsageStatistics=get-usage-information&pageSize=page-size&pageNumber=page-number

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

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views?sort=sort-expression

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views?fields=field-expression

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 2.2. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the views.
get-usage-information (Optional) true to return usage statistics. The default is false.
page-size (Optional) The number of items to return in one response. The minimum is 1. The maximum is 1000. The default is 100. For more information, see Paginating Results.
page-number (Optional) The offset for paging. The default is 1. For more information, see Paginating Results.
field-expression (Optional) An expression that lets you specify the set of available fields to return. You can qualify the return values based upon predefined keywords such as _all_ or _default_, and you can specify individual fields for the workbooks or other supported resources. You can include multiple field expressions in a request. For more information, see Using Fields in the REST API.

Note: The filter and sort parameters can be combined with each other and with paging parameters and fields parameters using an ampersand (&).

Request Body

None

Permissions

For Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators, the method returns only the views that the user owns or has Read permissions for (either explicitly or implicitly).

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <views>
    <view id="view-id"
        name="view-name"
        contentUrl="content-url" >
      <workbook id="workbook-id" />
      <owner id="owner-id" />
      <usage totalViewCount="total-count" />
    </view>
     ... additional views ...
  </views>
</tsResponse>

The <usage> element is included in the response only if the method has includeUsageStatistics=true in the URI.

Version

Version 2.2 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 data sources at the requested page size.
400 400007 Invalid page size The page size parameter is not an integer, or is less than one.
400 400008 Invalid parameter value The includeUsageStatistics was provided with a value other than true or false.
403 403004 Read forbidden A non-administrator user attempted to query workbook views, but the caller doesn't have Read permission.
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 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/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/views" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d"

Example response:

<tsResponse version-and-namespace-settings>
  <pagination pageNumber="1" pageSize="100" totalAvailable="2" />
  <views>
    <view id="1f1e1d1c-2b2a-2f2e-3d3c-3b3a4f4e4d4c" name="Economic Indicators"
         contentUrl="Finance/sheets/EconomicIndicators">
      <workbook id="1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d" />
      <owner id="9f9e9d9c-8b8a-8f8e-7d7c-7b7a6f6d6e6d" />
    </view>
    <view id="9a8a7b6b-5c4c-3d2d-1e0e-9a8a7b6b5b4b" name="Investing in the Dow"
          contentUrl="Finance/sheets/InvestingintheDow">
      <workbook id="59a8a7b6-be3a-4d2d-1e9e-08a7b6b5b4ba" />
      <owner id="9f8e7d6c5-b4a3-f2e1-d0c9-b8a7f6e5d4c" />
  </view>
</tsResponse>

Query Views for Workbook

Returns all the views for the specified workbook, optionally including usage statistics.

Note: After you create a resource, the server updates its search index. If you make a query immediately to see a new resource, the query results might not be up to date.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/views

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/views?includeUsageStatistics=get-usage-information

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
workbook-id The ID of the workbook to get the views for.
(Optional) get-usage-information true to return usage statistics. The default is false.

Request Body

None

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators can query workbook views only if they have Read (view) permission for the views (either explicitly or implicitly).

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <views>
    <view id="view-id" name="view-name"
        contentUrl="content-url" >
      <usage totalViewCount="total-count" />
    </view>
     ... additional views ...
  </views>
</tsResponse>

The <usage> element is included in the response only if the method has includeUsageStatistics=true in the URI.

Version

Version 1.0 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
400 400008 Invalid parameter value The includeUsageStatistics was provided with a value other than true or false.
403 403004 Read forbidden A non-administrator user attempted to query workbook views, but the caller doesn't have Read permission.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/workbooks/1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d/views" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

Example response:

<tsResponse version-and-namespace-settings>
  <views>
    <view id="1f1e1d1c-2b2a-2f2e-3d3c-3b3a4f4e4d4c" name="Tale of 100 Start-ups"
          contentUrl="Finance/sheets/Taleof100Start-ups"/>
    <view id="9a8a7b6b-5c4c-3d2d-1e0e-9a8a7b6b5b4b" name="Economic Indicators"
          contentUrl="Finance/sheets/EconomicIndicators"/>
    <view id="7b6b59a8-ac3c-4d1d-2e9e-0b5b4ba8a7b6" name="Investing in the Dow"
          contentUrl="Finance/sheets/InvestingintheDow"/>
  </views>
</tsResponse>

Query View Data

Returns a specified view rendered as data in comma-separated-value (CSV) format.

CSV data is provided in the response body, rather than as a download. If the request is for a dashboard, only data for the dashboard's first view is returned.

If you make multiple requests for a view's data, subsequent calls return a cached version of the data. This means that the returned data might not include the latest changes to the view. To decrease the amount of time that an data is cached, use the maxAge parameter.

For Tableau Online, concurrent requests to endpoints that start long-running jobs, including this one, are limited to 20 at a time. A 429 HTML reponse means that a request exceeded the limit and should be retried at a later time. (introduced September 2021).

Note the data exported is at a summary level only. Detail level data is only available as a download option in the user interface.

This method includes the ability to filter a view using fields in the underlying workbook data. To learn more about filtering query views, see Filtering and Sorting in the REST API.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id/data

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id/data?maxAge=max-age-minutes

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id/data?vf_<fieldname>=filter-value

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the view.
view-id The ID of the view to render as data.
max-age-minutes (Optional) The maximum number of minutes view data will be cached before being refreshed. To prevent multiple view data requests from overloading the server, the shortest interval you can set is one minute. There is no maximum value, but the server job enacting the caching action may expire before a long cache period is reached.
filter-value The value of the field that you want to use to filter the workbook view. For example, a workbook with the filter /data?vf_year=2017 would only display data from the year 2017. To learn more, see Filter query views.

Request Body

None

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators can query workbook views only if they have Read (view) permission for the views (either explicitly or implicitly).

Response Code

200

Response Body

The response body contains data in CSV format.

Version

Version 2.8 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
400 400080 Bad Request The view ID in the URI doesn't correspond to a view available on the specified site.
401 401002 Unauthorized The authentication token provided in the request header was invalid or has expired.
403 403032 Read forbidden A non-administrator user attempted to query workbook views, but the caller doesn't have Read permission.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.
429 429000 Concurrent request limit exceeded

For Tableau Online, the cumulative number of concurrent requests has exceeded the limit of 20. This limit applies to long-running jobs such as exports and downloads for view data, images, .pdf or .pptx files, datasources, and crosstabs, Retry this request at a later time.

Introduced September 2021.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/1edc53ac-e247-4870-9fd3-6fad0ce5f84d/views/2474164d-8d37-4a4c-abc7-c2070fd25fd5/data?maxAge=60" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

Example response:

The returned view data will be no more than 60 minutes old.

Month of Date,Year of Date,Above Median?,Avg. Median
January,1893,below median,-1.0
January,1864,below median,-0.9
January,1861,below median,-0.9
December,1862,below median,-0.9
March,1917,below median,-0.8
December,1892,below median,-0.8
February,1862,below median,-0.8
February,1911,below median,-0.8
February,1917,below median,-0.8
May,1861,below median,-0.8
November,1862,below median,-0.8
March,1898,below median,-0.8
December,1860,below median,-0.8
January,1862,below median,-0.7
March,1850,below median,-0.7
February,1893,below median,-0.7
December,1870,below median,-0.7

Query View Image

Returns an image of the specified view.

If you make multiple requests for an image, subsequent calls return a cached version of the image. This means that the returned image might not include the latest changes to the view. To decrease the amount of time that an image is cached, use the maxAge parameter.

This method includes the ability to filter a view using fields in the underlying workbook data. To learn more about filtering query views, see Filtering and Sorting in the REST API.

Note: If you want to disable this endpoint, use TSM to set the sheet_image.enabled setting to false. For more information, see tsm configuration set options in the Tableau Server help.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id/image

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id/image?resolution=image-resolution

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id/image?maxAge=max-age-minutes

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id/image?vf_<fieldname>=filter-value

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the view.
view-id The ID of the view to return an image for.
image-resolution (Optional) The resolution of the image. Image width and actual pixel density are determined by the display context of the image. Aspect ratio is always preserved. Set the value to high to ensure maximum pixel density.
max-age-minutes (Optional) The maximum number of minutes a view image will be cached before being refreshed. To prevent multiple image requests from overloading the server, the shortest interval you can set is one minute. There is no maximum value, but the server job enacting the caching action may expire before a long cache period is reached.
filter-value The value of the field that you want to use to filter the workbook view. For example, a workbook with the filter /data?vf_year=2017 would only display data from the year 2017. To learn more, see Filter query views.

Request Body

None

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators can query workbook views only if they have Read (view) permission for the views (either explicitly or implicitly).

Response Code

200

Response Body

The view's image in PNG format (MIME media type image/png).

Version

Version 2.5 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
403 403004 Read forbidden A non-administrator user attempted to query a view preview image, but the caller doesn't have Read permission.
403 403068 Forbidden The endpoint has been disabled on the server. To enable the endpoint, a server administrator must use tsm to configure the sheet_image.enabled setting. For more information, see tsm configuration set Options in the Tableau Server help.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
404 404011 View not found The view ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing view in the specified workbook.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/views/9f9e9d9c-8b8a-8f8e-7d7c-7b7a6f6d6e6d/image?resolution=high&maxAge=60" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

Query View PDF

Returns a specified view rendered as a .pdf file.

If you make multiple requests for a PDF, subsequent calls return a cached version of the file. This means that the returned PDF might not include the latest changes to the view. To decrease the amount of time that an PDF is cached, use the maxAge parameter.

This method includes the ability to filter a view using fields in the underlying workbook data. To learn more about filtering query views, see Filtering and Sorting in the REST API.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id/pdf

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id/pdf?maxAge=max-age-minutes

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id/pdf?type=page-type&orientation=page-orientation

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/views/view-id/pdf?vf_<fieldname>=filter-value

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the view.
view-id The ID of the view to render as a .pdf file.
filter-value The value of the field that you want to use to filter the workbook view. For example, a workbook with the filter /data?vf_year=2017 would only display data from the year 2017. To learn more, see Filter query views.
max-age-minutes (Optional) The maximum number of minutes a view PDF will be cached before being refreshed. To prevent multiple PDF requests from overloading the server, the shortest interval you can set is one minute. There is no maximum value, but the server job enacting the caching action may expire before a long cache period is reached.
page-orientation (Optional) The orientation of the pages in the .pdf file produced. The value can be Portrait or Landscape. If this parameter is not present the page orientation will default to Portrait.
page-type

(Optional) The type of page, which determines the page dimensions of the .pdf file returned. The value can be: A3, A4, A5, B5, Executive, Folio, Ledger, Legal, Letter, Note, Quarto, or Tabloid.

If this parameter is not present the page type will default to Legal.

Request Body

None

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators can query workbook views only if they have Read (view) permission for the views (either explicitly or implicitly).

Response Code

200

Response Body

This method has no response body. The response is in the form of a downloaded .pdf file. The response header content will have Content-Type:application/pdf.

Version

Version 2.8 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
400 400080 Bad Request The view ID in the URI doesn't correspond to a view available on the specified site.
401 401002 Unauthorized The authentication token provided in the request header was invalid or has expired.
403 403032 Read forbidden A non-administrator user attempted to query workbook views, but the caller doesn't have Read permission.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID 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/3.14/sites/1edc53ac-e247-4870-9fd3-6fad0ce5f84d/views/2474164d-8d37-4a4c-abc7-c2070fd25fd5/pdf/maxAge=60" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

The response is a file that contains the view, whose data is no older than 60 minutes, saved as a pdf.

Query View Preview Image

Returns the thumbnail image for the specified view.

Note: After you create a resource, the server updates its search index. If you make a query immediately to see a new resource, the query results might not be up to date.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/views/view-id/previewImage

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the view.
workbook-id The ID of the workbook that contains the view to return a thumbnail image for.
view-id The ID of the view to return a thumbnail image for.

Request Body

None

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators can query workbook views only if they have Read (view) permission for the views (either explicitly or implicitly).

Response Code

200

Response Body

The view's preview image in PNG format (MIME media type image/png).

Version

Version 1.0 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
403 403004 Read forbidden A non-administrator user attempted to query a view preview image, but the caller doesn't have Read permission.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
404 404011 View not found The view ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing view in the specified workbook.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Query Workbook

Returns information about the specified workbook, including information about views and tags.

Note: After you create a resource, the server updates its search index. If you make a query immediately to see a new resource, the query results might not be up to date.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
workbook-id The ID of the workbook to return information about.

Request Body

None

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators can query a workbook only if they have Read (view) permission for the workbook (either explicitly or implicitly).

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <workbook id="workbook-id"
	  name="workbook-name"
	  description ="workbook-description"
	  webpageurl="workbook-webpageurl"
	  contentUrl="workbook-content-url"
      showTabs="show-tabs-flag"
      size="size-in-megabytes"
      createdAt="datetime-created"
	  defaultViewId="default-view-id"
	  updatedAt="datetime-updated"
	  encryptExtracts="encryptExtracts" >
	    <project id="project-id" />
	    <owner id="owner-id" />
	    <tags>
	      <tag label="tag" />
	      ... additional tags ...
	    </tags>
	    <views>
	      <view id="view-id" name="view-name" contentUrl="view-content-url" />
	      ... additional views ...
	    </views>
  </workbook>
</tsResponse>

The datetime-created and datetime-updated attribute values are returned in UTC format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ).

Version

Version 1.0 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
403 403018 Read forbidden A non-administrator user attempted to query the workbook, but the caller doesn't have Read permission.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/workbooks/1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

Example response:

<tsResponse version-and-namespace-settings>
  <workbook id="1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d" name="Finance"
    description="The finance workbook."
    contentUrl="Finance" showTabs="true"
	webpageUrl="https://MY_SERVER/workbooks/#/1" size="2"
	defaultViewId=064330ca-4222-4ca8-b01e-2525839a7f5f"
	createdAt="2011-03-30T22:32:35Z" updatedAt="2016-01-13T01:00:02Z"
    showTabs="true" size="3"
	encryptExtracts="true" >
	  <project id="1f2f3e4e-5d6d-7c8c-9b0b-1a2a3f4f5e6e" name="Tableau Samples"/>
      <owner id="9f9e9d9c-8b8a-8f8e-7d7c-7b7a6f6d6e6d"/>
      <tags/>
      <views>
        <view id="1f1e1d1c-2b2a-2f2e-3d3c-3b3a4f4e4d4c"
          contentUrl="Finance/sheets/Taleof100Start-ups"/>
		    <tags/>
		<view id="9a8a7b6b-5c4c-3d2d-1e0e-9a8a7b6b5b4b"
		  contentUrl="Finance/sheets/EconomicIndicators"/>
		    <tags/>
        <view id="7b6b59a8-ac3c-4d1d-2e9e-0b5b4ba8a7b6"
          contentUrl="Finance/sheets/InvestingintheDow"/>
            <tags/>
        </views>
  </workbook>
</tsResponse>

Query Workbooks for Site

Returns the workbooks on a site.

If the user is not an administrator, the method returns just the workbooks that the user has permissions to view.

URI

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

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

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks?sort=sort-expression

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

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks?fields=field-expression

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbooks.
filter-expression (Optional) An expression that lets you specify a subset of workbooks to return. You can filter on predefined fields such as name, tags, and createdAt. You can include multiple filter expressions. For more information, see Filtering and Sorting.
sort-expression (Optional) An expression that lets you specify the order in which workbook information is returned. If you do not specify a sort expression, the sort order of the information that's returned is undefined. For more information, see Filtering and Sorting.
page-size (Optional) The number of items to return in one response. The minimum is 1. The maximum is 1000. The default is 100. For more information, see Paginating Results.
page-number (Optional) The offset for paging. The default is 1. For more information, see Paginating Results.
field-expression (Optional) An expression that lets you specify the set of available fields to return. You can qualify the return values based upon predefined keywords such as _all_ or _default_, and you can specify individual fields for the workbooks or other supported resources. You can include multiple field expressions in a request. For more information, see Using Fields in the REST API.

Note: The filter and sort parameters can be combined with each other and with paging parameters and fields parameters using an ampersand (&).

Request Body

None

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators can get workbooks that they have Read (view) permissions for (either explicitly or implicitly).

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <pagination pageNumber="page-number"
     pageSize="page-size"
     totalAvailable="total-available" />
  <workbooks>
    <workbook id="workbook-id"
		name="name"
		description ="workbook-description"
		webpageurl="workbook-webpageurl"
		contentUrl="content-url"
        showTabs="show-tabs-flag"
        size="size-in-megabytes"
        createdAt="datetime-created"
	    updatedAt="datetime-updated"
	    defaultViewId="default-view-id" >
	      <project id="project-id" name="project-name" />
	      <owner id="user-id" />
	      <tags>
	        <tag label="tag"/>
	        ... additional tags ...
	     </tags>
	<dataAccelerationConfig accelerationEnabled="accelerationEnabled" lastUpdatedAt="update-date-time" accelerationStatus="accelerationStatus" />
   </workbook>
   ... additional workbooks ...
  </workbooks>
</tsResponse>

The datetime-created and datetime-updated attribute values are returned in UTC format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ).

Attribute Values

accelerationEnabled true if data acceleration is enabled, otherwise false. For more information, see Data Acceleration.
accelerationStatus The status can be:
  • accelerated: The acceleration job succeeded.
  • failed: The acceleration job failed.
  • inProgress: The acceleration job is running.
  • notUseful: The acceleration job completed but none of the queries in the workbook were supported for acceleration.
  • waiting: The workbook is enabled for acceleration but no background job has been submitted yet to accelerate it.

Version

Version 2.3 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 is not an integer, is less than one, or is greater than the final page number for users at the requested page size.
400 400007 Invalid page size The page size parameter is not an integer, or is less than one.
403 403014 Page size exceeds upper limit The page size parameter exceeds the system-wide upper limit of 1000.
403 403018 Read forbidden A non-administrator user attempted to query workbooks for the site, but the caller doesn't have Read permission.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID 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: Get workbooks without filter

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/workbooks" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

Example response: 

<tsResponse version-and-namespace-settings>
  <pagination pageNumber="1" pageSize="100" totalAvailable="27"/>
  <workbooks>
    <workbook id="1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d"
		name="Finance"
        description="The finance workbook."
		contentUrl="Finance" showTabs="true"
		webpageUrl="http://MY_SERVER/#/worbooks/1" size="2"
		createdAt="2013-03-30T22:32:35Z" updatedAt="2016-01-13T01:00:02Z"
		defaultViewId="abcd1234-fa4a-4e3f-85fe-db746f44bf4c" >
	      <project id="1f2f3e4e-5d6d-7c8c-9b0b-1a2a3f4f5e6e" name="Tableau Samples"/>
	      <owner id="9f9e9d9c-8b8a-8f8e-7d7c-7b7a6f6d6e6d"/>
	      <tags/>
    </workbook>
    <workbook id="59a8a7b6-be3a-4d2d-1e9e-08a7b6b5b4ba" name="World Indicators"
		description="The world indicators workbook."
		contentUrl="WorldIndicators" showTabs="true"
		webpageUrl="http://MY_SERVER/#/worbooks/2" size="1"
        createdAt="2014-02-19T10:19:23Z" updatedAt="2015-12-29T013:23:45Z"
		defaultViewId="edd01d90-fa4a-4e3f-85fe-db746f44bf4c" >
	      <project id="08a7b6b5-b4ba-be3a-4d2d-1e9e59a8a7b6" name="default"/>
	      <owner id="9f9e9d9c-8b8a-8f8e-7d7c-7b7a6f6d6e6d"/>
	      <tags>
          <tag label="training" ></tags>
    </workbook>
  </workbooks>
  ...more workbooks ...
  </tsResponse>

Example: Get workbooks with date/time filter

The following example includes a filter to return the workbooks that were updated on 1 May 2016 at 6:00 AM or later and specifies that the results should be sorted by the workbook name.

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/workbooks?filter=updatedAt:gte:2016-05-01T06:00:00Z&sort=name:asc" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

Query Workbooks for User

Returns the workbooks that the specified user owns in addition to those that the user has Read (view) permissions for.

Note: After you create a resource, the server updates its search index. If you make a query immediately to see a new resource, the query results might not be up to date.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/users/user-id/workbooks

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/users/user-id/workbooks?ownedBy=isOwner&pageSize=page-size&pageNumber=page-number

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the user.
user-id The ID of the user to get workbooks for.
isOwner (Optional) true to return only workbooks that the specified user owns, or false to return all workbooks that the specified user has at least read access to. The default is false.
page-size (Optional) The number of items to return in one response. The minimum is 1. The maximum is 1000. The default is 100. For more information, see Paginating Results.
page-number (Optional) The offset for paging. The default is 1. For more information, see Paginating Results.

Request Body

None

Permissions

All users can call this method, but the results of the call depend on the user's permissions. Server and site administrators see all workbooks for the specified user. If the isOwner parameter is true, users who are not server or site administrators see the workbooks that they own on the site. If isOwner parameter is false, users who are not server administrators see the workbooks that they have Read (view) permissions for.

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <pagination pageNumber="pageNumber" pageSize="page-size"
         totalAvailable="total-available" />
  <workbooks>
    <workbook id="workbook-id"
	  name="name"
	  description ="workbook-description"
	  webpageurl="workbook-webpageurl"
	  contentUrl="content-url"
      showTabs="show-tabs-flag"
      size="size-in-megabytes"
      createdAt="datetime-created"
      updatedAt="datetime-updated"
      defaultViewId="default-view-id" >
	    <project id="project-id" name="project-name" />
	    <owner id="user-id" />
	    <tags>
	      <tag label="tag"/>
	        ... additional tags ...
	      </tags>
   </workbook>
   ... additional workbooks ...
</tsResponse>

The datetime-created and datetime-updated attribute values are returned in UTC format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ).

Version

Version 1.0 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 data sources at the requested page size.
400 400007 Invalid page size The page size parameter is not an integer, or is less than one.
403 403014 Page size exceeds upper limit The page size parameter exceeds the system-wide upper limit of 1000.
403 403018 Read forbidden A non-administrator user attempted to query workbooks for the user, but the caller doesn't have Read permission.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404002 User not found The user ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing user.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/users/9f9e9d9c-8b8a-8f8e-7d7c-7b7a6f6d6e6d/workbooks" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

Example response:

<tsResponse version-and-namespace-settings>
  <pagination pageNumber="1" pageSize="100" totalAvailable="2"/>
  <workbooks>
    <workbook id="1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d" name="Finance"
	  webpageUrl="https://MY_SERVER/#/worbooks/1"
      contentUrl="Finance" showTabs="true" size="2" description="The Finance workbook."
      createdAt="2013-03-30T22:32:35Z" updatedAt="2016-01-13T01:00:02Z"
      defaultViewId="edd01d90-fa4a-4e3f-85fe-db746f44bf4c" >
	    <project id="1f2f3e4e-5d6d-7c8c-9b0b-1a2a3f4f5e6e" name="Tableau Samples"/>
	    <owner id="9f9e9d9c-8b8a-8f8e-7d7c-7b7a6f6d6e6d"/>
	    <tags></tags>
    </workbook>
    <workbook id="59a8a7b6-be3a-4d2d-1e9e-08a7b6b5b4ba" name="World Indicators"
	  webpageUrl="https://MY_SERVER/#/worbooks/2"
	  contentUrl="WorldIndicators" showTabs="true" size="1"  description="The World Indicators workbook."
	  createdAt="2014-02-19T10:19:23Z" updatedAt="2015-12-29T013:23:45Z"
	  defaultViewId="edd01d90-fa4a-4e3f-85fe-db746f44bf4c" >
        <project id="08a7b6b5-b4ba-be3a-4d2d-1e9e59a8a7b6" name="default"/>
        <owner id="9f9e9d9c-8b8a-8f8e-7d7c-7b7a6f6d6e6d"/>
        <tags></tags>
    </workbook>
  </workbooks>
</tsResponse>

Query Workbook Connections

Returns a list of data connections for the specific workbook.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/connections

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
workbook-id The ID of the workbook to return connection information about.

Request Body

None

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators can query a workbook only if they have Read (view) permission for the workbook (either explicitly or implicitly). queryTaggingEnabled is returned only for administrator users.

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <connections>
    <connection id="connection-id" type="connection-type"
      serverAddress="server-address" serverPort="port"
	  userName="connection-user-name"
	  queryTaggingEnabled="query-tagging-enabled" />
    < ... additional connections ... >
  </connections>
</tsResponse>

Version

Version 2.0 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
403 403021 Read forbidden A user who is not a server administrator user attempted to query the workbook connections, but the caller doesn't have Read permission.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/workbooks/1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d/connections" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

Example response:

<tsResponse version-and-namespace-settings>
  <connections>
    <connection id="12ab34cd-56ef-78ab-90cd-12ef34ab56cd" type="dataengine" />
    <connection id="9a8a7b6b-5c4c-3d2d-1e0e-9a8a7b6b5b4b" type="dataengine" />
    <connection id="7b6b59a8-ac3c-4d1d-2e9e-0b5b4ba8a7b6" type="dataengine" />
    <connection id="374371c0-ffe9-4e16-b48e-6b868e3026ca" type="dataengine" />
    <connection id="08a7b6b5-b4ba-be3a-4d2d-1e9e59a8a7b6" type="dataengine" />
  </connections>
</tsResponse>

Note: This method returns connection information, including connection type. In some cases, the name of the connection type might not map directly to a name of a connection type that you're familiar with. In those cases, see Mapping ConnectionType Names for more information.

Query Workbook Preview Image

Returns the thumbnail image as a PNG file for the specified workbook. Usually the image that is returned is for the first sheet in the workbook.

Note: After you create a resource, the server updates its search index. If you make a query immediately to see a new resource, the query results might not be up to date.

URI

GET /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/previewImage

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
workbook-id The ID of the workbook to return the thumbnail image for.

Request Body

None

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators can query a workbook preview image only if they have Read (view) permission for the workbook (either explicitly or implicitly) and also have Read (view) permission for the view that is used as the preview image. If the user doesn't have Read permissions to that view, the preview image for another view might be used. If the user doesn't have Read permissions to any views in the workbook, the user is not allowed to query a workbook query image.

Response Code

200

Response Body

The workbook's preview image in PNG format (MIME media type image/png).

Version

Version 1.0 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
403 403004 Read forbidden A non-administrator user attempted to query the workbook preview image, but the caller doesn't have Read permission for the workbook.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not GET.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/workbooks/1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d/previewImage" -X GET -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd" > workbook-preview.png

The response is a graphics file in PNG format.

Unhide a Recommendation for a View

Unhides a view from being recommended by the server by removing it from the list of views that are dimissed for a user. If the unhidden view meets the criteria for being recommended, then it will be displayed on the server Home or Recommendation pages.

URI

DELETE /api/api-version/sites/site-id/recommendations/dismissals/?type=view&id=view-luid

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the group.
view-luid The LUID of the view to be removed from the list of views hidden from recommendation for a user.

Request Body

None

Permissions

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

Response Code

204

Response Body

None

Version

Version 1.0 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

Errors

HTTP status error Code Condition Details
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404029 Content not found The content ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing content of the requested type.
404 404035 Recommendation not found A hidden recommendation for the given content ID was not found.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not DELETE.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/dismissals/?type=view&id=1a2b3c4d-5e6f-7a8b-9c0d-1e2f3a4b5c6d" -X DELETE -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd"

Example response:

No response body. Response code is 204.

Update Workbook

Modifies an existing workbook, allowing you to change the owner or project that the workbook belongs to and whether the workbook shows views in tabs. Updated workbooks can optionally be marked to appear in the recently viewed list.

URI

PUT /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
workbook-id The ID of the workbook to update.

Request Body

<tsRequest>
  <workbook
	name="updated-workbook-name"
	showTabs="show-tabs-flag"
	  recentlyViewed"recently-viewed-flag"
	  encryptExtracts="encrypt-extracts-flag" >
	    <project id="new-project-id" />
        <owner id="new-owner-id" />
   <dataAccelerationConfig accelerationEnabled="true" accelerateNow="true"/>
 </workbook>
</tsRequest>

Attribute Values

updated-workbook-name (Optional) New name for the workbook being updated.
show-tabs-flag (Optional) Specify true to have the updated workbook show views in tabs; otherwise, false. The default is false.
recently-viewed-flag (Optional) Set this value to true to have the updated workbook show in the site's recently viewed list. The default is false. Once the flag is set to true, setting it to false will have no effect. When enough views or workbooks have populated the recently viewed list, the oldest item will fall off the list and its recently-viewed-flag will revert to false.
new-project-id (Optional) The ID of a project to assign the workbook to.
new-owner-id (Optional) The ID of a user to assign the workbook to as owner.
encrypt-extracts-flag (Optional) true to encrypt the extracts or false to not encrypt extracts. For more information, see Extract and Encryption Methods.
dataAccelerationConfig accelerationEnable (Optional) true to accelerate or false to not accelerate.
dataAccelerationConfig accelerateNow (Optional) true or false. Whether to start the pre-computation for acceleration immediately when the next backgrounder process becomes available.

Any combination of the elements inside the <workbook> element is valid. Only the attributes and child elements that are included result in updates to the data source. If no attributes or nested elements are included, no update is made.

If the <project> element is included, the id attribute must be included; other attributes of the <project> element are ignored.

If the <owner> element is included, the id attribute must be included; other attributes of the <owner> element are ignored.

Permissions

Only Tableau Server users who are server administrators or site administrators can change a workbook's owner. Users who are not server administrators can update a workbook only if they have Write permission for the workbook and for the project. Only Tableau Server users who are server administrators or site administrators can set the change the dataAccelerationConfig accelerationEnable setting.

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <workbook id="workbook-id" name="workbook-name"
      contentUrl="workbook-url"
      showTabs="show-tabs-flag"
      size="size-in-megabytes"
      createdAt="datetime-created"
      updatedAt="datetime-updated"
      encryptExtracts="encryptExtracts" >
    <project id="project-id" />
    <owner id="owner-id" />
    <dataAccelerationConfig accelerationEnabled="true"/ >
  </workbook>
</tsResponse>

The datetime-created and datetime-updated attribute values are returned in UTC format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ).

Version

Version 2.0 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

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.
403 403025 Project update forbidden A non-administrator user tried to change the workbook project, but the caller doesn't have Write permission for the target project.
403 403027 Owner update forbidden A non-administrator user tried to change the workbook owner.
403 403027 Update forbidden A non-administrator user tried to change the workbook, but the caller doesn't have Write permission for the workbook.
403 403004 Update forbidden A non-administrative user tried to update the workbook, but does not have permissions to publish the updated workbook to the project.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404002 Owner not found The owner ID in the request body doesn't correspond to an existing user.
404 404005 Project not found The project ID in the URI doesn't match the project ID provided in the request body.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not PUT.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/9a8b7c6d-5e4f-3a2b-1c0d-9e8f7a6b5c4d/workbooks/1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d" -X PUT -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd" -d @update-workbook.xml

This command changes a workbook whose ID is 1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d from its original project to a new project (7b6b59a8-ac3c-4d1d-2e9e-0b5b4ba8a7b6). The new project ID is specified in the update-workbook.xml file.

Content of update-workbook.xml: 

<tsRequest>
  <workbook showTabs="true" >
      <project id="7b6b59a8-ac3c-4d1d-2e9e-0b5b4ba8a7b6" />
 </workbook>
</tsRequest>

Example response:

<tsResponse version-and-namespace-settings>
  <workbook name="Finance" id="1a1b1c1d-2e2f-2a2b-3c3d-3e3f4a4b4c4d"
        contentUrl="Finance" showTabs="true" size="2"
        createdAt="2011-03-30T22:32:35Z" updatedAt="2016-01-13T01:00:02Z">
    <project id="7b6b59a8-ac3c-4d1d-2e9e-0b5b4ba8a7b6"/>
    <owner id="9f9e9d9c-8b8a-8f8e-7d7c-7b7a6f6d6e6d"/>
  </workbook>
</tsResponse>

Update Workbook Connection

Updates the server address, port, username, or password for the specified workbook connection.

If the workbook contains multiple connections to the same data source type, all the connections are updated. For example, if the workbook contains three connections to the same PostgreSQL database, and you attempt to update the user name of one of the connections, the user name is updated for all three connections.

Any combination of the attributes inside the <connection> element is valid. If no attributes are included, no update is made.

URI

PUT /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/connections/connection-id

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
workbook-id The ID of the workbook to update.
connection-id The ID of the connection to update.

Request Body

<tsRequest>
  <connection
    serverAddress="server-address" serverPort="port"
    userName="connection-username" password="connection-password"
    embedPassword="embed-password"
	queryTaggingEnabled="query-tagging-enabled" />
</tsRequest>

Attribute Values

server-address The new server for the connection.
port The new port for the connection.
connection-username The new username for the connection.
connection-password The new password for the connection.
embed-password True to embed the password; otherwise, False.
query-tagging-enabledd True to enable query tagging(Link opens in a new window) that associates a specific server log query event with the Tableau resource that made the query. False, which disables query tagging, is the default.

Any combination of the attributes inside the <connection> element is valid. If no attributes are included, no update is made.

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators can update permissions only for a workbook for which they have the Write capability (either explicitly or implicitly). Only users with administrator permissions can enable or disable query tagging.

Response Code

200

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <connection id="connection-id"
    serverAddress="server-address" serverPort="port"
	userName="connection-user-name"
	queryTaggingEnabled="query-tagging-enabled" />
</tsResponse>

Version

Version 2.0 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

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.
403 403029 Update forbidden A non-administrator user tried to update the workbook connection, but the caller doesn't have Write permission.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing site.
404 404006 Workbook not found The workbook ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing workbook.
404 404020 Connection not found The connection ID in the URI doesn't correspond to an existing connection.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not PUT.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Update Workbook Now

Refreshes the specified workbook.

This method refreshes the specified workbook, with no need to associate the workbook refresh with a scheduled task. This method is the equivalent of selecting a workbook using the Tableau Server UI, and then selecting Refresh Extracts from the menu (also known as a "manual refresh").

Note: This method will fail and result in an error if your Server Administrator has disabled the RunNow setting for the site. For more information, see Tableau Server Settings(Link opens in a new window).

URI

POST /api/api-version/sites/site-id/workbooks/workbook-id/refresh

Parameter Values

api-version The version of the API to use, such as 3.14. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.
site-id The ID of the site that contains the workbook.
workbook-id The ID of the workbook to refresh.

Request Body

<tsRequest>
</tsRequest>

Permissions

Tableau Server users who are not server administrators or site administrators can only refresh workbooks if they own the workbook, or if they are the project leader for the project.

Response Code

202

Response Body

<tsResponse>
  <job id="job-id" mode="Asynchronous" type="RefreshExtract" createdAt="date-time">
    <extractRefreshJob>
      <workbook id="workbook-id" name="workbook-name" />
    </extractRefreshJob>
  </job>
</tsResponse>

Version

Version 2.8 and later. For more information, see REST API and Resource Versions.

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.
401 401000 Unauthorized Access The authentication token provided in the request header was invalid or has expired.
403 403032 Update Forbidden A non-administrator user attempted to query workbook views, but the caller doesn't have sufficient permissions.
403 403004 Update forbidden A non-administrative user tried to update the workbook, but does not have permissions to publish the updated workbook to the project.
404 404000 Site not found The site ID in the URI is unknown.
404 404006 Resource not found The workbook ID in the URI is unknown.
405 405000 Invalid request method Request type was not POST.
409 409093 Operation already in Queue The extract refresh job is already in the queue.

For more information, see Handling Errors.

Example

curl "http://MY-SERVER/api/3.14/sites/1edc53ac-e247-4870-9fd3-6fad0ce5f84d/workbooks/5de9cc53-b17d-45af-804d-49144b39f29f/refresh" -X POST -H "X-Tableau-Auth:12ab34cd56ef78ab90cd12ef34ab56cd" -H "Content-Type: application/xml" –d @empty-tsrequest.xml"

Content of empty-tsRequest.xml:

<tsRequest>
</tsRequest>

Example response:

<tsResponse xmlns="http://tableau.com/api" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://tableau.com/api http://tableau.com/api/ts-api-2.8.xsd">
  <job id="20cf4ddc-6d73-4733-89ec-8d336669bd56" mode="Asynchronous" type="RefreshExtract" createdAt="2017-12-06T22:58:52Z">
    <extractRefreshJob>
      <workbook id="5de9cc53-b17d-45af-804d-49144b39f29f" name="Regional" />
    </extractRefreshJob>
  </job>
</tsResponse>


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