tap-tableau - Meltano Hub

Tableau

tap-tableau (gthesheep variant)🥇

Business Intelligence Platform

The tap-tableau extractor pulls data from Tableau that can then be sent to a destination using a loader.

Alternate Implementations

Gary James (default)🥇
tailsdotcom
🥈

Getting Started

Prerequisites

If you haven't already, follow the initial steps of the Getting Started guide:

Installation and configuration

Add the tap-tableau extractor to your project using
```
meltano add
```
:

meltano add extractor tap-tableau

Configure the tap-tableau settings using

meltano config

:

meltano config tap-tableau set --interactive

Test that extractor settings are valid using

meltano config

:

meltano config tap-tableau test

Next steps

Follow the remaining steps of the Getting Started guide:

If you run into any issues, learn how to get help.

Capabilities

The current capabilities for tap-tableau may have been automatically set when originally added to the Hub. Please review the capabilities when using this extractor. If you find they are out of date, please consider updating them by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the capabilities for this extractor.

This plugin has the following capabilities:

about
catalog
discover
schema-flattening
state
stream-maps

You can override these capabilities or specify additional ones in your meltano.yml by adding the capabilities key.

Settings

The tap-tableau settings that are known to Meltano are documented below. To quickly find the setting you're looking for, click on any setting name from the list:

api_version
personal_access_token_name
personal_access_token_secret
server_url
site_url_id

Expand To Show SDK Settings

flattening_enabled
flattening_max_depth
stream_map_config
stream_maps

You can also list these settings using

meltano config

with the list subcommand:

meltano config tap-tableau list

You can override these settings or specify additional ones in your meltano.yml by adding the settings key.

Please consider adding any settings you have defined locally to this definition on MeltanoHub by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the settings for this plugin.

API Version (api_version)

Environment variable: TAP_TABLEAU_API_VERSION

Version of REST API to use

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-tableau set api_version [value]

Personal Access Token Name (personal_access_token_name)

Environment variable: TAP_TABLEAU_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN_NAME

Name for the personal access token for authentication

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-tableau set personal_access_token_name [value]

Personal Access Token Secret (personal_access_token_secret)

Environment variable: TAP_TABLEAU_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET

Personal access token for authentication

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-tableau set personal_access_token_secret [value]

Server URL (server_url)

Environment variable: TAP_TABLEAU_SERVER_URL

Server URL for your Tableau instance

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-tableau set server_url [value]

Site URL ID (site_url_id)

Environment variable: TAP_TABLEAU_SITE_URL_ID

Site ID to query

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-tableau set site_url_id [value]

Expand To Show SDK Settings

Flattening Enabled (flattening_enabled)

Environment variable: TAP_TABLEAU_FLATTENING_ENABLED

'True' to enable schema flattening and automatically expand nested properties.

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-tableau set flattening_enabled [value]

Flattening Max Depth (flattening_max_depth)

Environment variable: TAP_TABLEAU_FLATTENING_MAX_DEPTH

The max depth to flatten schemas.

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-tableau set flattening_max_depth [value]

Stream Map Config (stream_map_config)

Environment variable: TAP_TABLEAU_STREAM_MAP_CONFIG

User-defined config values to be used within map expressions.

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-tableau set stream_map_config [value]

Stream Maps (stream_maps)

Environment variable: TAP_TABLEAU_STREAM_MAPS

Config object for stream maps capability. For more information check out Stream Maps.

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-tableau set stream_maps [value]

Something missing?

This page is generated from a YAML file that you can contribute changes to.

Edit it on GitHub!

Looking for help?

If you're having trouble getting the tap-tableau extractor to work, look for an existing issue in its repository, file a new issue, or join the Meltano Slack community and ask for help in the

#plugins-general

channel.

Install

meltano add extractor tap-tableau

Maintenance Status

Repo

https://github.com/gthesheep/tap-tableau

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