What does Atlan crawl from Tableau?
Atlan crawls and maps the following assets and properties from Tableau.
Once you've crawled Tableau, you can use connector-specific filters for quick asset discovery. The following filters are currently supported for these assets:
- Projects - filter Tableau assets by projects, including nested projects
- Data sources - Is published filter
For your Tableau worksheets and dashboards, Atlan also provides asset previews to help with quick discovery and give you the context you need.
You may need to disable clickjack protection for Tableau asset previews to load.
Sites
Atlan maps sites from Tableau to its TableauSite asset type.
| Source property | Atlan property | Where in Atlan |
|---|---|---|
name | name | asset profile and overview sidebar |
Projects
Atlan maps projects from Tableau to its TableauProject asset type.
| Source property | Atlan property | Where in Atlan |
|---|---|---|
name | name | asset profile and overview sidebar |
description | description | asset profile and overview sidebar |
createdAt | sourceCreatedAt | asset profile and properties sidebar |
owner | [sourceOwner](/apps/connectors/business-intelligence/tableau/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-tableau-connectivity) | asset profile and overview sidebar |
updatedAt | sourceUpdatedAt | asset profile and properties sidebar |
hierarchy | projectHierarchy | asset preview and profile, overview sidebar |
topLevelProject | isTopLevelProject | API only |
Flows
Due to limitations at source, Atlan will not be able to crawl Tableau flows if you use the JWT bearer authentication method.
Atlan maps flows from Tableau to its TableauFlow asset type.
| Source property | Atlan property | Where in Atlan |
|---|---|---|
name | name | asset profile and overview sidebar |
description | description | asset profile and overview sidebar |
owner | [sourceOwner](/apps/connectors/business-intelligence/tableau/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-tableau-connectivity) | asset profile and overview sidebar |
project_extra (hierarchy) | projectHierarchy | asset preview and profile, overview sidebar |
Metrics
Tableau has retired metrics methods in API 3.22 for Tableau Cloud and Tableau Server version 2024.2. If you're using Tableau API version 3.22 or higher, metadata for metrics will be unavailable in Atlan.
Atlan maps metrics from Tableau to its TableauMetric asset type.
| Source property | Atlan property | Where in Atlan |
|---|---|---|
name | name | asset profile and overview sidebar |
description | description | asset profile and overview sidebar |
createdAt | sourceCreatedAt | asset profile and properties sidebar |
updatedAt | sourceUpdatedAt | asset profile and properties sidebar |
project_extra (hierarchy) | projectHierarchy | asset preview and profile, overview sidebar |
Workbooks
Atlan maps workbooks from Tableau to its TableauWorkbook asset type.
| Source property | Atlan property | Where in Atlan |
|---|---|---|
name | name | asset profile and overview sidebar |
description | description | asset profile and overview sidebar |
webpageUrl | sourceURL | overview sidebar |
owner | [sourceOwner](/apps/connectors/business-intelligence/tableau/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-tableau-connectivity) | asset profile and overview sidebar |
createdAt | sourceCreatedAt | asset profile and properties sidebar |
updatedAt | sourceUpdatedAt | asset profile and properties sidebar |
project_extra (hierarchy) | projectHierarchy | asset preview and profile, overview sidebar |
Worksheets
Atlan maps worksheets from Tableau to its TableauWorksheet asset type.
| Source property | Atlan property | Where in Atlan |
|---|---|---|
name | name | asset profile and overview sidebar |
createdAt | sourceCreatedAt | asset profile and properties sidebar |
updatedAt | sourceUpdatedAt | asset profile and properties sidebar |
source_url | sourceURL | overview sidebar |
project_extra (hierarchy) | projectHierarchy | asset preview and profile, overview sidebar |
Dashboards
Atlan maps dashboards from Tableau to its TableauDashboard asset type.
| Source property | Atlan property | Where in Atlan |
|---|---|---|
name | name | asset profile and overview sidebar |
createdAt | sourceCreatedAt | asset profile and properties sidebar |
updatedAt | sourceUpdatedAt | asset profile and properties sidebar |
source_url | sourceURL | overview sidebar |
project_extra (hierarchy) | projectHierarchy | asset preview and profile, overview sidebar |
Data sources
Atlan maps data sources (embedded and published) from Tableau to its TableauDatasource asset type.
| Source property | Atlan property | Where in Atlan |
|---|---|---|
name | name | asset profile and overview sidebar |
description | description | asset profile and overview sidebar |
owner | [sourceOwner](/apps/connectors/business-intelligence/tableau/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-tableau-connectivity) (for published data sources only) | asset profile and overview sidebar |
isPublished | isPublished | asset preview and overview sidebar |
hasExtracts | hasExtracts | API only |
upstreamTables | upstreamTables | API only |
upstreamDatabases | upstreamDatabases | API only |
isCertified | [certificateStatus](/apps/connectors/business-intelligence/tableau/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-tableau-connectivity) (VERIFIED) | asset preview and filter, overview sidebar |
certifier | certifier | API only |
certificationNote | certificationStatusMessage | API only |
certifierDisplayName | certificateUpdatedBy | asset preview and overview sidebar |
project_extra (hierarchy) | projectHierarchy | asset preview and profile, overview sidebar |
Data source fields
Atlan maps data source fields and column fields from Tableau to its TableauDatasourceField asset type.
| Source property | Atlan property | Where in Atlan |
|---|---|---|
name | name | asset profile and overview sidebar |
description | description | asset profile and overview sidebar |
upstreamTables | upstreamTables | API only |
upstreamColumns | upstreamColumns | API only |
dataCategory | tableauDatasourceFieldDataCategory | API only |
role | tableauDatasourceFieldRole | API only |
dataType | tableauDatasourceFieldDataType | API only |
formula | tableauDatasourceFieldFormula | API only |
binSize | tableauDatasourceFieldBinSize | API only |
__typename | datasourceFieldType | API only |
project_extra (hierarchy) | projectHierarchy | asset preview and profile, overview sidebar |
Custom SQL
Atlan parses custom SQL queries used in Tableau data sources to extract lineage information. This process identifies the relationships between data assets based on the SQL logic defined within Tableau.
| Source property | Atlan property | Where in Atlan |
|---|---|---|
downstreamDatasources | TableauDatasource | Used to define downstream impact of lineage |
query | CustomSQLQuery | Used to form lineage from source |
Calculated fields
Atlan maps calculated fields from Tableau to its TableauCalculatedField asset type.
| Source property | Atlan property | Where in Atlan |
|---|---|---|
name | name | asset profile and overview sidebar |
description | description | asset profile and overview sidebar |
dataCategory | dataCategory | API only |
role | role | API only |
dataType | tableauDataType | asset preview, filter, and profile, overview sidebar |
formula | formula | overview sidebar |
project_extra (hierarchy) | projectHierarchy | asset preview and profile, overview sidebar |
Lineage
Atlan calculates lineage for Tableau as follows:
| Source object | Tableau object | Tableau object (downstream) |
|---|---|---|
| Table | Published data source | Published data source |
| Table | Published data source | Embedded data source |
| Table | Embedded data source | |
| Column | Data source field | Calculated field |
| Column | Data source field | Data source field |