The only way to get at the data I needed was to download each data source and parse the tds file which is XML. The problem is that the Rest API alone could not provide that level of detail. I had a need to be able to get detailed information on each data source in all the sites in my Tableau Server.
Ultimately, I would not have been able to accomplish the totality of what I was looking to do with just a rest api connection. Unfortunately, if you want to do some custom reporting on the data from this Rest API you can't do it out of the box with Tableau Desktop.Īlthough, I have the ability to write a custom web connector for Tableau, so that it could access its own Rest API that was way more effort than I wanted to spend.
If you support a Tableau Server Infrastructure you are likley to run into a scenario where you need more information than can be provided by the Tableau Server Portal. Fortunately, Tableau has a fairly extensive Rest API to access and udate most of the Tableau Server object model.
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