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Tableau 5
- Version 5.2.2 was released on August 3, 2010 and contain a small number of changes in both Tableau Desktop and Server.
- ODBC connections that generate driver capability warnings while connecting now have the "Do not show again" option for the specific ODBC driver name. This change allows you to bypass this warning dialog for some connections and retain it for others.
- When connected to a Microsoft Analysis Services database, adding calculated measures could temporarily sort the measures list in an unusual order. Closing and reopening the workbook would then sort them correctly. The calculated measures are now correctly presented in the list immediately after creating them.
- Workbooks with multiple sheets connecting to Vertica databases would prompt multiple times to connect to the database, once for each worksheet. Tableau now correctly prompts once for each connection.
- Corrected a case where Tableau could unexpectedly exit when setting a quick filter selection to a value that returns no values from the query.
- Columns defined as the datatype VarBinary in MySQL databases could incorrectly combine values into a single mark in Tableau. For example, aa, aA, and AA would all be incorrectly combined into a single mark. Tableau now correctly manages the collation for VarBinary columns.
- Using the Export > Data menu command when connected to a Microsoft Analysis Services cube databases could export duplicate columns of data. This issue has been corrected.
- Corrected a sorting issue when using Microsoft data sources and columns that contain text with apostrophes and hyphens.
- When printing, if the selected printer is unavailable or unreachable for some reason Tableau could unexpectedly exit. This issue has been corrected and a message now appears stating Tableau is unable to print to the device.
- Corrected a problem when publishing workbooks to a Tableau Server that is running on a port other than 80. The second time you publish from the same desktop session Tableau Desktop would unexpectedly exit.
- Corrected a case where Tableau would unexpectedly exit when printing a dashboard with the copyright symbol used in a text object.
- Changed the default setting for trusted ticket relationships between external application servers and Tableau Server. The old default required that the IP address of the ticket redemption matched the IP address of the original POST. This check would fail in many scenarios where firewall and proxy server configurations would re-map the true client IP address. The new default is to only match on the request coming from a trusted host. Only the configuration setting default value has been changed. Customers that wish to enforce client IP matching can change the default using the tabadmin utility.
- Corrected an issue when using a Firefox browser to access a Tableau Server behind certain reverse proxies configurations where changing a quick filters would return the error "The server could not respond due to a malformed request."
- Quick filters for measures displayed on Tableau Server where the lower or upper bounds were set to zero would not correctly display the slider ends. This issue has been corrected.
- Corrected an issue where configuring a Tableau Server to hide the Share button on embedded views (by using the command: tabadmin set vizqlserver.showshare false) was not actually suppressing the Share button.
- Fixed an issue that was causing "No license found; Session creation failed." errors from Tableau Server.
- Version 5.2.1 was released on July 7, 2010 and contain a small number of changes in both Tableau Desktop and Server.
- The application no longer unexpectedly exits when importing custom geocoding that uses the same field names as the built-in geocoding data but has a different hierarchy. For example, importing data with a hierarchy of State then Country instead of Country, State.
- Corrected some map drawing in the area around Sydney Harbor.
- The Clear Filters menu command for multi-select quick filters now correctly activates on the Clear toolbar button drop-down menu.
- Updated the Microsoft PowerPivot connection dialog to clarify how to enter connect strings. Additionally, updated a number of error messages related to PowerPivot to be more understandable.
- Changed the default map options so that the Place Names option is off. Place Names include city names, neighborhood names, and points of interest names.
- Corrected an issue with geocoding not handling names with accent characters, such as Québec. All names are now matched on the ASCII spelling of the name, which omits the accent characters.
- Canadian state abbreviations were missing from the automatic geocoding. This data has been re-added to the product.
- When connecting to Microsoft PowerPivot, browsing the SharePoint server to locate content now includes the root level of the SharePoint site in the browse dialog.
- Servers that have Guest access enabled now correctly redirect to a the normal login page instead of a permission denied page when you access a direct URL link to a view that does not allow the Guest user to see it.
- Version 5.2 was released on June 15, 2010.
- When importing custom geocoding values, Tableau now automatically treats all integer values as dimensions for the geocoding data. This treatment it easier to use custom geocoding files that include values such as Store_ID for the unique identifier.
- The data layer on the Map Options card has been renamed from CMSA to CBSA. CMSA is the Core Metropolitan Statistical Area, which was replaced in 2003 by the CBSA, which is the Core Based Statistical Area. The data points and map boundary & labels were always CBSA data. Tableau originally named the data layer incorrectly.
- Along with the updates to the map visual styles, the built-in geocoding data has been updated to correct a number of problems with incorrect placement of some zip codes, area codes, and country names.
- Optimized performance when connecting to Netezza databases, specifically related to sending metadata queries that include a "limit 1" in the SQL. These queries now use "limit 0" for these metadata discovery queries.
- Added an option to "Remove Reference Line" to the context menu (right-click) menu for an axis that has one or more references lines.
- Corrected a query error that occurred when using Essbase utility dimensions and continuous dates.
- Corrected an issue where editing the connection for multiple joined text files could inadvertently remove the joined files from the definition.
- Running the Tableau installer to repair an installation was not correctly associating the file associations with the 'repaired' version. The repair function in the installer now correctly assigned filetypes to open with the correct version of Tableau.
- Bar charts drawn with negative values that extend either to the left or below the 0 line would sometimes have a small 1 pixel gap between the 0 line and the start of the bar. This drawing error has been corrected.
- Corrected an issue when using Tableau date functions and WEEK with Teradata databases.
- When using the zoom toolbar option, clicking one of the zoom levels in the drop-down control would zoom to an incorrect level. Clicking on a specific step now zooms to that correct level.
- Corrected an problem when connecting to a Navteq WMS server.
- A Tableau Server installed behind a reverse proxy now correctly accesses the pages to set permissions on a workbook.
- If publishing a workbook to Tableau Server fails it could leave partial workbook fragments on the server, which would appear in the list of workbooks but not open correctly. Tableau Server now ensures the workbook publishes correctly before making any of the views available in the workbook list.
- On a dashboard with embedded web content, a filter action that targets a different view or dashboard in the workbook would not correctly open in a new window. Rather it would load the target view into the existing web container on the original dashboard. These actions now open the target view in a new window as expected.
- A confusing and inaccurate message was returned to people without an active account (an unlicensed user) on Tableau Server The message has been updated to be more relevant and understandable.
- Version 5.1.6 was released on August 3, 2010 and contains corrections in both Tableau Desktop and Server.
- Columns defined as the datatype VarBinary in MySQL databases could incorrectly combine values into a single mark in Tableau. For example, aa, aA, and AA would all be incorrectly combined into a single mark. Tableau now correctly manages the collation for VarBinary columns.
- Using the Export > Data menu command when connected to a Microsoft Analysis Services cube databases could export duplicate columns of data. This issue has been corrected.
- Corrected a sorting issue when using Microsoft data sources and columns that contain text with apostrophes and hyphens.
- When printing, if the selected printer is unavailable or unreachable for some reason Tableau could unexpectedly exit. This issue has been corrected and a message now appears stating Tableau is unable to print to the device.
- Corrected a problem when publishing workbooks to a Tableau Server that is running on a port other than 80. The second time you publish from the same desktop session Tableau Desktop would unexpectedly exit.
- Corrected a case where Tableau would unexpectedly exit when printing a dashboard with the copyright symbol used in a text object.
- Fixed an issue that was causing "No license found; Session creation failed." errors from Tableau Server.
- Version 5.1.5 was released on July 7, 2010 and contains corrections in both Tableau Desktop and Server.
- Corrected an issue where the application could unexpectedly exit when connected to Teradata and using DATEPART functions in quick filters.
- Reference lines formatting created in Version 5.0 can now be changed in version 5.1 workbooks.
- Duplicate columns could appear in certain situations in the View Data dialog when connected to Microsoft Analysis Services. This has been corrected.
- Optimized performance for relative date filters when using the "last n periods" option (for example "Last 12 months").
- Corrected an error that would occur when creating a scheduled extract of data with double-byte language data (e.g., Chinese) into a SQL Server database.
- Corrected a case where a "Session Busy" error was being returned to the browser incorrectly. The underlying cause was a tooltip being requested before the view was completely loaded, which could be caused by the placement of the mouse pointer while the view is loading. This case is now accounted for and the busy error is not triggered.
- Version 5.1.4 was released on June 15, 2010 and contains corrections in both Tableau Desktop and Server.
- Added an option to cancel when opening a file from a networked file server that is taking a long time to respond.
- Using Grand Totals and manually sorting dimensions when connected to an Analysis Services cube would cause an error "Couldn't find a key during dictionary lookup." This has been corrected.
- Corrected the following error that could occur when connecting to Essbase 7 databases: "Error: Essbase database error 1260046: Unknown Member MEMNOR used in query."
- Closing old data connections and deleting the associated worksheets would sometimes cause the application to exit. This issue has been corrected.
- Corrected a case where adding filters to a workbook that was created in version 5.0 of Tableau would cause the application to unexpectedly exit.
- Corrected a case where pattern match filters could needlessly run queries to collect the set of possible values for the filter, which could be very slow. Tableau no longer runs these unnecessary queries in these cases.
- Using the tabcmd utility to publish workbooks with hidden worksheets would publish the hidden sheets as visible. This has been corrected so that hidden sheets are indeed hidden.
- Corrected an issue where following a filter action on selection to move between sheets would cause Tableau Server to display the error: "The destination sheet [Dashboard Name] does not exist in this workbook." This error would occur because another quick filter removed the values that are part of the active selection.
- Export data to crosstab would in some cases misalign column headers in the resulting export file. This has been corrected.
- Corrected an issue where filter actions that target a subset of the views on a dashboard would sometimes apply the filter to all the views.
- Optimized performance when loading views and dashboards that include quick filters that use the wildcard filter mode. This change will be most noticeable when the underlying column the quick filter is based on includes a very large number of values.
- Implemented a performance optimization for displaying and scrolling in very large crosstabs.
- Corrected an issue that was preventing scheduled extracts on Tableau Server from having their schedule removed.
- Changing your password for Tableau Server accounts when the server is running with SSL would fail and the password would not be changed. This issue has been corrected.
- Version 5.1.3 was released on May 6, 2010 and contains corrections in both Tableau Desktop and Server.
- Corrected a problem displaying quick filters for data stored in a MySQL column defined with a enum datatype.
- Added the ability to direct temporary files created by Tableau to point to a specific directory (or drive) by setting the environment variable TABLEAUTEMP.
- A new option to "Ignore in Table Calculations" has been added to the context menu for discrete measures, which allows you to add table calculations to the continuous measures in the view.
- Fixed a problem where the application would unexpectedly exit when creating reference lines that are scoped to the cell and include the Total function.
- The function ATAN2 is not supported on Jet-based data sources (Excel, Access, text files) and using it causes query errors. This function has been removed from the available functions list for these connections.
- Corrected an issue when connecting to an Access database where integer columns could not display correctly when the sum of the field expands beyond the defined column width.
- Corrected a case where the Percent of Total table calculation could cause the error, "Cannot find a total needed to compute a percentage", after drilling down in the cube hierarchy of an Analysis Service database.
- Corrected an issue where reference lines formatting could not be changed in workbooks created in version 5.0 that are opened in version 5.1.
- Tableau Reader no longer incorrectly places the user directory (My Tableau Repository) at the root level (C:/) rather than in the My Documents folder.
- A table calculation on a discrete measure would not correctly distinguish missing values. This error has been corrected.
- Corrected a case where the application would unexpectedly exit when editing the color legend title.
- Improved the performance of very large categorical quick filters.
- Optimized performance when loading views and dashboards that include quick filters that use the wildcard filter mode. This will be most noticeable when the underlying column the quick filter is based on includes a very large number of values.
- Corrected an issue where long running queries that exceed the Tableau Server timeout could return "Session Busy" or "Unexpected Error" messages instead of a proper Session Timeout error.
- Optimized performance when displaying a list of thumbnails (Views or Workbook listing pages). This improvement will reduce server resource usage during the time it takes to load a page with thumbnails.
- Version 5.1.2 was released on April 8, 2010 and contains corrections in both Tableau Desktop and Server.
- Right-click menus would sometimes show Actions that were not appropriate for the selection. For example, with two dimensions on the rows shelf and a filter action defined for each dimension, right-clicking the outer dimension values should show both actions because selecting the outer field implicitly selects the inner field.
- When connected to an MSAS data source and the Hide Empty Rows option is deselected (off), placing the measure names field on the rows shelf would incorrectly always hide the empty rows. These empty rows now correctly honor the Hide Empty Rows option.
- Tableau 5.0 would ignore invalid calculated fields in the Data Window (indicated by an exclamation mark) when creating or refreshing an extract. Tableau 5.1 would not create or refresh the extract until the invalid calculated field had been corrected. The v5.0 behavior was restored, and it now simply ignores these fields when creating the extract.
- When connected to an MSAS data source, a context filter and a top 10 filter on fields from the same hierarchy now correctly calculates the top 10.
- The error report upload capability would create files with the completion status of the upload process. These files were not being removed properly once the upload was complete.
- Tableau products running with a Trial License could not access WMS map servers. The option was incorrectly hidden from the Background Maps menu. The WMS option now appears for Trial users.
- Copying the trend model description, which is displayed in the Describe Trend Line dialog box, and pasting it into an Annotation, Caption, Title, or Tooltip would cause the application to unexpectedly quit.
- Tableau would unexpectedly exit if one of the file names stored in the most recently used list on the Start page was saved incorrectly. This has been corrected.
- Refreshing an extract when the database no longer contains the column that a Tableau filter is defined on could cause the application to unexpectedly exit.
- When working with an MSAS database, the data retrieved by the View Data option now returns data values from related dimensions rather than just the key values from the related dimensions. Tableau now uses the MSAS RETURN CAPTION() clause, which substantially improves the usefulness of the data returned.
- Tableau Reader could not access certain WMS servers to display maps. This issue has been corrected.
- Corrected an issue where excluding data values while using Table Calculations would sometimes display values incorrectly.
- All connections to Vertica databases now automatically set the ODBC connection to read-write mode (specifically ReadOnly=0). This change allows certain Tableau features to work when the default driver settings are set to readonly. Permissions on the Vertica database are still enforced to control writing to the database.
- Vertica connections are now created with the transaction isolation level set to Read Committed. Prior versions of Tableau set this option to Serializable. Read Committed may provide increased performance as it allows read-oriented queries such as Tableau's to execute concurrently with write-oriented processes such as data loads on the server.
- Fixed an issue that was causing "No license found; Session creation failed." errors from Tableau Server. Additional logging was added to help isolate further causes of this infrequent error.
- The link for Pause Automatic Updates has been changed from a text link in the upper right corner of the view to an icon on the toolbar. The icon was added to resolve a number of sizing issues when the view was scaled to a narrow size and to maintain consistency with the other toolbar commands. The new icon is the second from right on the toolbar, and toggles to indicate whether automatic updates are paused.
- Quick Filters on attribute dimensions now include the (All) option. Existing workbooks need to be republished and the Internet Explorer cache may need to be cleared to reflect this change.
- Filter actions were not applied correctly when following links between views on Tableau Server if the target view required a database login. This problem has been corrected and the filter values now properly pass to the target view.
- Hiding a member of a set and then turning on totals would cause the application to unexpectedly exit. This problem has been corrected.
- There were times when clicking Refresh Data would not correctly update the view until some other change was made to the display (like modifying a filter). This has been corrected, Refresh Data will immediately update the view with the current data.
- Corrected an issue where configuring Tableau Server to use MySQL as the extract engine would cause the configuration tool to unexpectedly exit.
- The relative date filter dialog box on Tableau Server sometimes displayed incorrect dates in the preview area even though the actual filter was applied correctly. The preview area display has been corrected.
- Workbooks with embedded passwords that are attached to scheduled extracts could fail after the first scheduled run. This problem has been corrected.
- Corrected one cause of the server returning 'Session busy' messages. This correction is related to an action filter request working to update the view while a request for a tooltip is triggered from the pre-updated display. If the action ends up filtering out the data point for which the tooltip is requested, a Session Busy error could occur.
- URL parameters could set fields with user filters to be null, bypassing the automatic data restriction. This problem has been corrected.
- Embedded views were sizing a bit differently than in version 5.0. Fixed size dashboards created in version 5.0 that would not display scroll bars in the embedded <iframe> region would sometimes get additional padding around the view which would cause the <iframe> to show scroll bars in version 5.1. This issue has been corrected and the views now size the same in version 5.1 as they did in 5.0.
- Version 5.1.1 was released on March 3, 2010 and contains corrections in both Tableau Desktop and Server.
- The "Edit Reference Line" menu option would show a blank option when a blank label is specified. The menu now shows the Value when there is a blank custom label.
- Corrected a display problem with field substitution text formatting. For example, when the first half of the substitution text is a different font than the second half.
- Changing a field to discrete or continuous when some data has been hidden would cause the view to become empty. The hidden data is now restored when the field is changed.
- Setting a Wildcard filter on a Set could cause the application to unexpectedly exit. This as been corrected.
- Corrected a problem where characters were truncated in mark labels for lines when turning on Grand Totals.
- Changing the data type from date to datetime (or vice versa) on a field that was used in a quick filter on a dashboard would cause the application to unexpectedly exit. This has been corrected.
- Corrected an issue where axes could be resized incorrectly and not show the zero line and/or incorrectly add scroll bars.
- Relative Date quick filters using custom anchors now correctly account for fiscal years.
- Measure Values used in Mark Annotations now correctly display the value. In some cases this field would display as null or the field name rather than the value.
- Duplicating dashboards that contain a URL action could cause the application to unexpectedly exit. This has been corrected.
- When using a regional setting where the thousands separator is a period ( . ) and the decimal separator is a comma ( , ) calculated fields using constants entered with a period decimal value would not correctly calculate. For example: [Profit] * 1.4 would not calculate correctly as the decimal setting on the locale had been set to a comma and the calculation was using a period in the constant. This has been corrected.
- <WorkbookName> substitution text now displays in views published to Tableau Server.
- Corrected an issue with tabcmd timing-out when publishing long-running workbook (TWB) files.
- The "Pause Automatic Updates" link has been added back to the toolbar area for embedded views.
- The 'Share' and 'Download' buttons on the embedded view toolbar now are also not displayed when the &:toolbar=no parameter is included on the URL.
Also added tabadmin commands to allow the administrator to globally turn off the 'Share' and 'Download' buttons on embedded views. The new commands are:
tabadmin set vizqlserver.showshare false
tabadmin set vizqlserver.showdownload false - Saving and reopening the workbook after adding a reference line that uses a field on the Level of Detail shelf and the field is then removed from the shelf would cause the application to unexpectedly exit. This issue has been corrected.
- The Distribution pane in the Reference Line dialog box now uses the correct list separator as defined by the locale for the percentages, percentiles, and standard deviations text box. For example, European locales use a semicolon ( ; ) separator instead of a comma ( , ) like in the U.S.
- Trusted authentication capabilities were not working in version 5.1. The error message "Invalid authenticity token error" would be displayed in the browser. This has been corrected.
- Corrected display problems with single value quick filters that only have one possible value. The title and radio button options would be combined onto one line rather than two.
- Internet Explorer could get a "tagName is null or not an object" error when accessing the Licensing page. This has been fixed.
- Long running queries to populate quick filters could block requests from other users causing the server to appear sluggish. These queries are now run as non-blocking.
- The user agent value for certain international browsers could cause an error when the value is written to Tableau Server logs. This issue has been corrected.
- The Next/Previous links now show correctly on the full search results page that loads when you click the "All Views" link on the abbreviated search results page.
- Corrected an error that would sometimes cause a "Session Busy. Please retry later." message.
- Version 5.1 was released on February 11, 2010.
- Version 5.0.10 was released on April 8, 2010 and contains a small number of corrections in Tableau Desktop.
- When connected to an Excel workbook, calculated fields that use the STDDEV function can cause errors related to null values when selecting View Data. This has been corrected.
- When using a custom sql connection, Tableau would sometimes become unresponsive after following a filter action that filters on specific fields and has the same source and target sheets. This issue has been corrected.
- Version 5.0.9 was released on March 3, 2010 and contains a small number of corrections in Tableau Desktop.
- Added support for the MySQL 'text' datatype. Tableau returns the first 10,000 characters for columns defined as this datatype.
- Corrected a problem calculating Bins when the column being binned is a calculation based on a date part.
- Tableau now displays an option to cancel when opening a file from a networked file server that is taking a long time to respond.
- Corrected an error that occurred when connecting to Microsoft Analysis Services cubes that include a dimension with no hierarchy.
- When working with Microsoft Analysis Services databases, changing the aggregation of a measure would incorrectly change the number format to exclude decimals even if a decimal format setting had been specifically set for that field. This issue has been corrected.
- Version 5.0.8 was released on February 8, 2010 and contains a small number of corrections in both Desktop and Server.
- When connecting to a DB2 database from an Italian Windows system, data now displays correctly when commas are used as the decimal separator.
- Corrected an issue where an error would occur using a filter action with an ampersand symbol (&) in the name of the source or target fields for the filter (e.g., 'Make & Model').
- When using a Microsoft Analysis Services database, canceling a query that is followed by a new query (e.g., adding a new column to one of the shelves after canceling a query) would display a "The protocol is disconnected!" error. This issue has been corrected.
- Corrected an SQL error when performing string truncation calculations against Teradata databases by replacing use of LENGTH with CHARACTERS.
- Corrected an issue where connecting to an Oracle database using a name defined in the tnsnames.ora would sometimes cause the following error: "ORA-25406 could not generate a connect address. Cause: Failover was unable to generate an address for a backup instance."
- Corrected a problem on certain systems where adding a measure to an existing view would exit the application. The underlying issue was related to the particular video driver in use.
- When using double-byte languages there were cases where Tableau could generate SQL statements with column aliases beyond the 30 character Oracle identifier limit. This issue has been corrected.
- Corrected one case where Tableau Server would display the message "An unexpected error occurred. If you continue to receive this error, please contact your Tableau Server Administrator. Would you like to reset this view?"
- Version 5.0.7 was released on January 11, 2010 and contains a small number of corrections in both Desktop and Server.
- Corrected problem with non-U.S. Oracle databases and the DATETRUNC() function.
- Corrected an SQL error when performing string truncation calculations against Teradata by replacing use of LENGTH with CHARACTERS.
- Corrected a problem where Oracle queries would get the error "ORA-01406: fetched column value was truncated," when querying a number with a very large number of digits (e.g., over 80 digits).
- The Table of Contents in the Tableau Server Help now displays correctly in the Windows version of Safari and Chrome web browsers.
- The version of Postgres bundled with Tableau Server has been upgraded to Version 8.3.8. This upgrade includes Postgres security updates and fixes an intermittent Postgres memory overwrite problem.
- Version 5.0.6 was released on December 3, 2009 and contains a small number of corrections in both Desktop and Server.
- Improved performance of some quick filters that use 'All Values' by removing unnecessary joins to obtain the correct set of possible values.
- Added support for Vertica 3.5.
- When using Essbase 7, quick filters were not correctly showing the hierarchy of members. This has been corrected.
- Expanded the limit for the number of items allowed in the Essbase and Microsoft Analysis Services data window tree view from 32,767 to 2,147,483,648.
- Added _comments to the list of database views available in the Tableau Server repository that can be accessed for custom reporting on server usage.
- Tableau Server would occasionally return a "session busy error" when trying to load a tooltip before a view completed its initial rendering. This has been corrected.
- Version 5.0.5 was released on November 5, 2009 and contains several corrections in both Desktop and Server.
- Added logic to handle the Adobe PDF limit of a page can't be more than 200 inches tall. Tableau now automatically breaks the output smaller than 200 inches if the page being requested would exceed the PDF limit.
- When connected to a Microsoft Analysis Services database, using the Find in the Edit Set dialog box now correctly searches the full domain of values.
- When using a Microsoft Analysis Services database configured to use the HTTP pass-through as the connection handler, Tableau now treats the MSAS error "HTTP Header not found" properly and reconnects to the database automatically.
- Updated the version of gdiplus.dll distributed with Tableau Desktop (this applies only to Windows 2000 systems).
- Drilling-up in a MSAS cube now correctly clears filter actions.
- When using a non-English Microsoft Analysis Services data source, Tableau would in some cases not correctly use the proper locale formatting for numbers, causing #Error displays for the numbers. This has been corrected.
- Updated the version of MSVCRT distributed with Tableau Server to version 2.0.50727.4053.
- Dashboard titles would become misaligned horizontally (for example would no longer be precisely centered) after resizing the browser window. This has been corrected.
- Version 5.0.4 was released on October 12, 2009 and contains several corrections in both Desktop and Server.
- Certain Oracle queries using Case or If statements would generate the following Oracle error, "ORA-12704: character set mismatch." The issue was related to certain data types and collations and has been corrected.
- Added an option when connecting to a WMS server (as a map source) to return the map image as a single large image rather than returning tiled maps. Enable this option if your WMS server has drawing anomalies (e.g., layering alignment problems).
- Improved performance of some filter actions when connected to a Microsoft Analysis Services databases. These actions would perform significantly slower than the same filter in Tableau 4.1.
- Creating a Tableau Extract no longer truncates some characters from Japanese strings.
- Optimized queries for quick filters on sets to avoid the application unexpectedly exiting. This was only an issue when connected to large Microsoft Analysis Services databases.
- Canceling queries that are running against a Microsoft Analysis Services cube no longer causes Tableau to unexpectedly exit.
- Turning on data labels for a measure that is being used as a dimension and contains null values no longer causes the application to unexpectedly exit.
- When using Teradata 'Role' permissions to control access to tables, Tableau now handles nested roles when discovering available databases and tables.
- Corrected a problem where sometimes Tableau Desktop trial installations could not run when using Remote Desktop.
- The Tableau Server Administrative page listing users now indicates which users have Publish permissions because they are an admin or project leader using a grey check mark. Green check marks indicate the user has been explicitly granted the publish right.
- Optimized the JavaScript used in large tables which will avoid the browser showing the following warning: "Unresponsive script: A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding..."
- Requesting PNG versions of a view via tabcmd now uses the latest data from a scheduled extract.
- When a long running scheduled extract job fails it is now correctly restarted so it can complete. Before this change, the jobs would not complete and mark the job as Pending in the Task History view on the server.
- When connected to an Oracle database, calculated fields that use a field that is a varchar and another field that is a number would cause an Oracle error: ORA-12704 (char set mismatch). Tableau now correctly converts the datatypes to be compatible for the calculation.
- When installing Tableau Server to a directory other than the default C:\Program Files location on Vista or Windows 2008, the application generated data content is now stored in the same directory as the application files instead of the default directory. This change allows you to install Tableau Server completely on a drive other than the C drive.
- Version 5.0.3 was released on September 9th, 2009 and contains several corrections in both Desktop and Server.
- When working with Oracle databases that are defined with NLS_LANG=ENGLISH_CANADA.WE8MSWIN1252 Tableau would return a "#Error" in place of number columns.
- Corrected a problem where Tableau would unexpectedly exit when using a background image whose x-y coordinates were outside the range of any data returned by the query.
- Setting a manual default sort using Microsoft Analysis Services and additionally setting unique values to be By Name would cause the application to unexpectedly exit.
- Using Microsoft Analysis Services and Actions to set filters could cause duplicate filter names to be created when the cube has the same name field in a hierarchy and an attribute, which would cause an error. This has been corrected.
- Added support for Vertica views in Vertica version 3.0.7.
- After copy/paste data from Excel into Tableau, Excel would no longer open files when an XLS would be double-clicked. Excel would launch, it would just not open the file. This was caused by Tableau incorrectly setting Excel to "Ignore other applications that use DDE". Tableau 5.0.3 no longer sets this Excel option. To restore Excel back to the original setting, select File > Excel Options > Advanced, and uncheck the option to "Ignore other applications that use DDE".
- Adding a reference line to a worksheet that uses a datetime field built against Microsoft Analysis Services would only allow specifying a time value for the reference line. A full datetime value may now be entered.
- Corrected a case where a color legend on a particular dashboard would cause Tableau to abruptly exit when opening the dashboard.
- Added support for text files defined as containing fixed-width columns by a schema.ini file.
- Selecting multiple invalid measures in the data window to delete them would cause Tableau to unexpectedly exit. This has been fixed.
- Setting a quick filter on a column that is defined as a Group with the names of the members beginning with a numeric character would sometimes improperly show certain items as unselected.
- Corrected additional cases where certain Oracle queries would generate an Oracle error “ORA-12704: character set mismatch.”
- When displaying sub-windows in Internet Explorer 8 (e.g., adding tags to a view), the underlying page is now correctly inactive and shaded.
- Tableau Server now remembers the last display of the header area for views as being either expanded (the default) or collapsed.
- Added recognition of the Tableau Server running in SSL mode to the Tableau-provided web part for SharePoint.
- Tableau Server users that "own" a project were not showing the checkmark in the columns for Publisher on the Users page in the Admin section.
- Views displayed by Tableau Server could visibly squash or stretch their size on an update. The server now takes a different approach to updating the images to minimize the flash of distortion.
- URL filters to views based on Microsoft Analysis Services cubes would sometimes, seemingly randomly, get an error loading. This has been corrected by properly determining when an attribute or part of a hierarchy is referenced in the URL filter.
- Version 5.0.2 was released on August 4, 2009 and contains several corrections in both Desktop and Server.
- Corrected a problem when creating an extract that would result in the message: "Firebird database error 335544321: arithmetic exception, numeric overflow, or string truncation. Unable to properly calculate the domain for the field 'column name'. Displayed data may be incorrect." The issue was related to a collation difference between the original database and the Tableau extract engine.
- Added support for Vertica 3.0. Also now support connections to views in Vertica databases.
- Rotating text when using Japanese, Chinese, or Korean characters no longer cuts off the last character.
- Made improvements to completely clean up temporary files when the application closed.
- Opening a workbook that contains groups would sometimes fail when the underlying data used in the groups have changed. Tableau now warns of this condition and opens the workbook.
- Updated the Oracle drivers that are redistributed by Tableau to version 10.2.0.4. The new drivers correct a number of issues, most notably with connecting to 64-bit Oracle servers. Tableau Server includes the drivers in the installer; drivers for Tableau Desktop are available on the Download Drivers page.
- Some views and dashboards published to a PDF file would print at reduced quality from what was shown on the screen. This has been corrected.
- In version 5.0, Tableau began creating tables rather than temporary tables for some tasks to correct an issue caused by certain restrictions with MySQL temporary tables. Tableau no longer creates tables in the cases where the person has 'create table' permission but does not have the database permission to drop those tables.
- Domain values for quantitative filters now compute more efficiently.
- Added additional automatic reconnect logic for Microsoft Analysis Services connections when the database drops the connection.
- Integer fields may now be used as latitude & longitude for geographic roles.
- Corrected case where using a quick filter on a dashboard for a field that no longer exists in the database would cause Tableau to abruptly exit when opening the dashboard.
- Mark label drag handles (yellow diamonds) are once again drawn correctly when a label is selected.
- Selecting Refresh Extract after changing the default aggregation for a measure in the Data window would not use the new aggregation. Tableau now correctly recognizes the change.
- When connected to a Microsoft Analysis Services database, single-member slicing filters now correctly filter to a single member rather than the entire hierarchy.
- Creating a Tableau Extract would truncate some characters from Japanese strings. This has been corrected.
- Certain Oracle queries using Case or If statements would generate an Oracle error "ORA-12704: character set mismatch". The issue was related to certain data types and collations.
- Corrected a problem when creating an extract that would result in some filters returning no values. The issue was related to a collation difference between the original database and the Tableau extract engine.
- Tableau Server views embedded into another application would not display in Internet Explorer when the other application & Tableau Server were installed on computers in different domains. This has been corrected.
- Simplified the syntax required for passing URL filters to views built from cube datasources (MSAS & Essbase). The original syntax required each filter to provide a fully qualified definition (such as [Country].[State].[City]=[Country].[State].&26[Seattle]). The new streamlined syntax is to simply provide a name=value pair. For hierarchies a name=value for each higher level of the hierarchy does need to be provided. An example of the new syntax would be: Country=US&State=WA&City=Seattle
- Workbooks with a scheduled extract that make use of the User Filters capability now correctly work on Tableau Server. When the scheduled extract is run, it performs the query as the username of the person that originally published the workbook.
- Certain long-running tabcmd commands may reach a timeout before completion. A new option has been added to the tabcmd utility to specify a longer timeout setting. The timeout setting may now be extended with the new global option:
--timeout seconds(where "seconds" is the number of seconds before time out) to the end of any tabcmd command. - When a Microsoft Analysis Services cube is rebuilt, if the structure of the cube changes, MSAS will disconnect all sessions that are open to it. This causes Tableau sessions to be disconnected. Any open Tableau Server view will get a message from MSAS that states "Current session is no longer valid due to structural changes." Tableau now does not display this message and will automatically reconnect to the database to display the view. If the structural changes did not impact the current view then everything proceeds correctly. If the changes did impact the current view, then other messages will be displayed informing of this.
- Corrected a problem in determining permissions for a particular published view, which prevented the view from being loaded for certain users.
- Version 5.0.1 was released on July 1, 2009 and contains several corrections in both Desktop and Server.
- Added logic to specifically set Sunday as the first day of a week for date calculations when working with SQL Server databases.
- When connected to a Teradata data source, Tableau now limits the number of columns included in the index of temporary tables to avoid surpassing the Teradata limit.
- Corrected an issue where time values would not be included with Date columns when creating extracts from an Oracle data source.
- Dashboard quick filters and legends now use the Default Worksheet font (Format > Font). This change is particularly useful for Asian languages where the filters and legends were not being drawn in unicode-aware fonts.
- Added the ability to 'Revert to Saved' when working with Packaged Workbooks (TWBX). This command is also now enabled in Tableau Reader.
- Exporting worksheets to PDF would sometimes clip the right border of the right-most item on the page. This has been corrected.
- Removed delay when using the "other" option to specify the field delimiter for text files. The text box to specify an "other" character now displays immediately.
- Optimized performance for text file data sources that use sets to filter a view by excluding the members of the set.
- Corrected problem computing confidence intervals or standard deviation reference lines on a per-pane basis when one of the panes has no values.
- For Teradata data sources, fixed SQL query errors in operations on mixed DATE/DATETIME data types.
- Corrected a problem with the SQL generated when working with Oracle databases and certain complex calculated fields.
- The message "The custom geocoding directory c:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau 5.0\local\data\ has errors." would sometimes incorrectly appear when opening views. This has been corrected.
- Added additional checks at application shutdown for completely cleaning up temporary files created by Tableau.
- Named Pipe connections are now only created when needed by the application. Pre-creating this type of connection would sometimes cause the following error message: "UniquifyForUser failed to get unique name size, code 14."
- Improved anti-aliasing for font sizes greater than 48 points.
- Editing Actions that were created as sheet links in previous versions no longer causes the application to fail.
- Fixed problem where selecting Window > Cascade in a workbook with a large number of sheets would freeze the application.
- Corrected a filtering problem when using a count or count distinct function on a column with a very long name.
- When using Microsoft Analysis Services data sources and MSAS remote sets in a Tableau filter, you could get a message about "The definition of the set contains a circular reference." This has been corrected.
- Corrected a problem with converting number fields to dates after creating an extract from a data source that uses Microsoft Jet. The resulting date would be off by 2 days due to a discrepancy between the Jet and Tableau definitions of "day 0."
- Action filters now display in alphabetical order on tooltips.
- Publishing a dashboard to a PDF would sometimes truncate the text in color legends, even when the space on the dashboard was manually sized to show the full text values.
- Corrected an infrequent error when creating a URL action that uses field values as parameters in the url.
- The application now always considers Sunday as the first day of the week. This fixes week boundary calculations that would sometimes break on Monday.
- Workbooks using extracts and calculated field definitions that are over 64k in size could garble the data model when loading. This has been corrected.
- Using prompted logon for Analysis Services views (as opposed to having the Tableau Server logon as its 'runas' identity) would not correctly reconnect when the user selected to 'remember my password'. This now works correctly.
- Tooltips now display when viewing Tableau Server administrative views.
- Exporting images, data, data as cross-tab, or PDF files from Tableau Server now displays a status window while generating the file. Once the file is ready, a link is provided to download it.
- Global filters on embedded views now properly update with values passed in the URL.
- Tableau Server does not support filter or highlight actions that use the "All Fields" option and point to a sheet that is not shown on the current page. These actions are now hidden from the tooltip for menu actions and silently ignored for hover and selection actions. In prior versions these actions would display an error.
- On some systems Tableau Server would stop responding to requests after an initial few would succeed. This has been corrected.
- Updated the Tableau Server Repository views. The view_url column in the _views table now includes the proper URL fragment.
- When displaying sub-windows in Internet Explorer 8 (e.g., adding tags to a view), the underlying page is now correctly inactive and shaded.
- The tabcmd command line utility can now publish dashboards.
- Optimized performance of initially loading a view. All views should load 1 second faster now.
- Version 5.0 was released on May 28, 2009.
Tableau Desktop
Version 5.2.2 is displayed as build number 5200.10.0729.1930 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Customer Account Center.
Tableau Desktop
Version 5.2.1 is displayed as build number 5200.10.0704.2030 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
In Tableau 5.2, we’ve added native connectivity for four data sources and provided support for hundreds of other connections with an ODBC connector. We've also updated the default map style with new font treatments and subtle changes to the colors used for water, land, parks and urban areas. As an alternative to the default maps, Tableau 5.2 has a second map style. Finally, the new maps include increased depth coverage for zooming into all parts of the world.
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Below is a more detailed list of corrections in Tableau 5.2.
Tableau DesktopVersion 5.2 is displayed as build number 5200.10.0607.1930 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
Tableau Desktop
Version 5.1.6 is displayed as build number 5100.10.0728.2200 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
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Tableau Desktop 5.1 helps you explore data better and author beautiful visualizations. Tableau Server 5.1 is even faster, more secure, and easier to manage with a new user interface. And it scales to very large implementations, so your entire company can share data and explore visualizations.
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Version 5.1 is displayed as build number 5100.10.0211.2100 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
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Version 5.0.10 is displayed as build number 5000.10.0331.2000 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
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Version 5.0.3 is displayed as build number 5000.9.0902.1330 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
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Version 5.0.2 is displayed as build number 5000.9.0729.2000 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
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Tableau 5.0 helps you explore data better, is faster, more secure, and easier to manage. As a major release it contains more than 60 new features across four themes: active dashboards, rich authoring, new data options, and performance. It also contains many corrections that will improve your desktop and server experience.
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Version 5.0 is displayed as build number 5000.9.0520.2245 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
Tableau 4
- Version 4.1.9 was released on August 4, 2009 and includes a change in Tableau Desktop.
- Corrected a case where temp files created during retrieval of map tiles could conflict with each other and cause the application to exit.
- Version 4.1.8 was released on July 1, 2009 and includes a few changes in Tableau Desktop and Server.
- Connections to Analysis Services cubes would not automatically reconnect when the database server data is updated. Reconnect logic has been enhanced to handle these cases.
- Added additional checks at application shutdown for completely cleaning up temporary files created by Tableau.
- Corrected problem of not being able to query an Oracle synonym defined on a view.
- Corrected a case where requesting to View Underlying Data would return no results when a filter on the sheet was a timestamp.
- Tableau Server could lose connections to Oracle and put the Tableau Server in a degraded state. This has been corrected.
- Version 4.1.7 was released on May 29, 2009 and includes a couple changes in Tableau Desktop.
- Character based fonts for Asian languages (Japanese, Korean, and Chinese) display correctly on the vertical axis when rotated.
- Corrected problem of not being able to query an Oracle synonym defined on a view.
- Version 4.1.6 was released on April 22, 2009 and includes a change in Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server.
- Added additional reconnect logic to automatically re-establish a connection to a Microsoft Analysis Services data source when the cube becomes locked for update.
- Version 4.1.5 was released on March 24, 2009 and includes a few changes in both Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server.
- Working with multiple sets as filters when connected to a Microsoft Analysis Services data source would sometimes cause an application failure. This issue has been corrected.
- Corrected an issue where the message "Cannot find a total needed to compute a percentage." would be displayed. The error was related to using Table Calculations to compute percentages and certain sort specifications for the columns.
- Fixed unexpected filter behavior when connected to a comma separated value (CSV) file that contained mixed case data.
- Connecting to a Microsoft Analysis Services data source using HTTP from Tableau Server would not override the default MSAS 30-second timeout. This issue has been corrected.
- Version 4.1.4 was released on February 9, 2009 and includes a small number of changes in both Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server.
- When working with the Pie mark type, holding down the Control key and dragging a field between shelves to duplicate rather than move it would cause Tableau to go into an infinite loop. This issue has been corrected.
- When working with User Filters for workbooks that will be published to Tableau Server, Tableau Desktop now always updates the view correctly when you use the impersonation feature to preview the user filter settings.
- When using Excel or Access data sources, Tableau Desktop now correctly applies true/false filters that are based on boolean data types.
- Corrected the location for data points mapped to the province Wellington, New Zealand.
- Postgres databases with the database server collation set as lc_collate = "C" are now handled correctly.
- When using an Essbase data source, filters that include selections across levels would sometimes lose track of the selections. This issue has been corrected.
- Corrected a problem when editing a connection to Microsoft Analysis Services or Oracle Essbase databases. With an active connection, editing the connection to point to a different database that fails to connect for some reason would cause Tableau to unexpectedly close.
- Connecting to a Microsoft Analysis Services cube using HTTP from the Tableau Server was not able to override the default MSAS 30-second timeout. This has been corrected.
- Project names with an ampersand character (&) in the name no longer create incomplete links in some of the Tableau Server pages.
- Version 4.1.3 was released on January 13, 2009 and includes a small number of changes in both Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server.
- Selection mode for quick filters on dashboards (e.g., single-select or multi-select) would revert back to multi-select mode if the workbook was saved without visiting all of the associated dashboards. The correct selection mode is now properly saved with the workbook.
- When an Essbase query includes multiple instances of the same measure, some of the instances of the measure are incorrectly displayed as null. This issue has been corrected to ensure that all instances of the measure get the same value.
- Special characters in names of places in Puerto Rico are now correctly encoded for mapping by CMSA, County, and State.
- When setting a filter using an Essbase or Microsoft Analysis Services data source, selecting the "Replace Selection" option in the Find Values dialog box and then selecting no values would cause an application error. This issue has been corrected.
- Boolean data types as true/false filters with Excel and Access data sources are now applied properly.
- Displaying a list of workbooks or views, sorted by name, occasionally omitted workbooks when the list spanned multiple pages. This issue has been corrected
- Implemented a performance optimization for large views extending across the visible screen area. This change is most noticeable with large cross-tabs views.
- Tags on views now work correctly with unicode characters (i.e., Japanese characters).
- If a connection to a Microsoft Analysis Services cube is interrupted for some reason (i.e. the MSAS server is restarted), Tableau Server now correctly reconnects any open sessions which may have been live during the momentary outage.
- Added support for a new parameter on the URL when invoking embedded views. The new parameter allows you to revert filters back to their initial published states. The parameter is :revert= and the possible values for this parameter are:
all - restores filters, sorts, axes
filters - restores filters
sorts - restores sorts
axes - restores fixed axes
Any new filter commands passed on the same URL with a :revert will be applied after the view is reset to its initial state. - Version 4.1.2 was released on December 3, 2008 and includes a small number of changes in both Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server.
- All users with a Tableau Professional license can now connect to Teradata data sources.
- All users with a Tableau Professional license can connect to Vertica data sources.
- Area code boundaries and area code labels now display together correctly at lower zoom scales.
- Fixed occasional crash when publishing all sheets in a workbook to PDF.
- When using Custom SQL connections to Teradata, Tableau now references column names by their base name rather than any titles or aliases defined by the server. This change was required to workaround an issue with the underlying driver, which has problems with certain subqueries using titles to reference the columns.
- Canceling queries to Microsoft Analysis Services would sometimes cause Tableau to fail. This has been corrected.
- Using newer versions of the MySQL driver no longer causes Tableau Extract files to create columns too narrow for some of the extracted data.
- Corrected an issue where installing Tableau Reader onto a computer that already has an activated version of Tableau Desktop on it would cause the message: "Unable to add license."
- Selection mode for quick filters (e.g., single-select or multi-select) is now properly saved with the workbook.
- When using a non-English Microsoft Analysis Services data source, Tableau now correctly interprets values that include percent formatting as percentages.
- Corrected a problem setting filters on the Tableau cache when the columns in the underlying database were defined with binary collation.
- Adding a license with a new maintenance date when running Tableau on a non-U.S. English computer no longer causes activation problems.
- View Underlying Data would sometimes cause an "invalid field formula" error. This issue has been corrected.
- Tableau no longer can generate an "out of memory" error while calculating the size legend values.
- Creating a Tableau Extract from an Excel file with a large number of very wide text columns no longer causes the error: "Firebird database error 335544849: Malformed string."
- Optimized how marks are drawn when published to PDF (e.g., the +, x, and * marks). In prior versions, these marks were not drawn as smooth and symmetrical when published to PDF as they were with other outputs.
- Fixed rare case where Tableau would immediately quit upon initial launch on certain machines.
- When using embedded views with trusted authentication, Tableau Server now correctly enforces the restriction that only the requested view may be retrieved. Access to the standard Tableau Server interface (i.e. browse or search functions) does not automatically inherit the trusted authentication session.
- Creating large Tableau extract files would sometimes fail with the error: "The system cannot find the path specified." This was related to temp file paths and has been corrected.
- Images and text areas placed on dashboards are no longer misaligned when displayed in IE6 browsers.
- Quick filters set to use 'All Values' would incorrectly run the query for 'Relevant Values' when calculating the size of the quick filter display area. This issue has been fixed.
- Corrected some display and javascript errors that occurred when using dashboards whose global filters returned zero rows of data.
- Fixed an issue where views with empty categorical quick filters would not fully render. The empty quick filters were causing a javascript error that halted processing on the client.
- Using the zoom tool when viewing large text table views on Tableau Server would crash one of the server processes. This issue has been corrected.
- Corrected a problem where Tableau Server could not be accessed with the recently released Safari 3.2 browser.
- Version 4.1.1 was released on October 24, 2008 and includes a small number of changes in both Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server.
- Corrected an issue where major tick marks sometimes disappeared when changing the frequency of x-axis minor tick marks.
- Corrected a problem with area annotations, where they would leave a fragment of themselves on the edge of the display when the area they were originally attached to has been scrolled off the current view.
- Corrected problem with retrieving table lists from Teradata v6.x databases.
- Added an option when creating a Teradata connection to specify the database first, then to show the table list for just that database. This can make establishing a connection to Teradata faster.
- Using newer versions of the MySQL driver would sometimes cause Tableau Extract files to create columns too narrow for some of the extracted data.
- Some WMS servers can return map images that are a single fixed scale image, rather than a scalable map layer. Tableau can only work with scalable map layers, and now does not show the option to request layers which are fixed size images.
- Application no longer crashes when re-opening a workbook after changing the tick-mark frequency for charts with a continuous date on the x-axis.
- Double clicking a .tms file when a Tableau workbook is open would open a second instance of the workbook.
- Analysis Services offline cube files (.cub files) did not return values for the measures when running on machines using a non-English locale.
- Corrected a sql error when using Teradata and multiple values on a date filter.
- Removed unnecessary worksheet refresh when renaming a WMS map source.
- Corrected occasional error when saving workbooks on certain machines. Issue was related to the inability to get a unique temporary file name from the operating system.
- Fixed crash when publishing all sheets in a workbook to PDF for certain documents.
- Copying data to a cross-tab would not retain decimal precision on the copied data. The copied data now correctly carries the decimal values.
- When using embedded views with trusted authentication, Tableau Server now correctly enforces the restriction that only the requested view may be retrieved. Access to the standard Tableau Server interface (i.e. browse or search functions) do not automatically inherit the trusted authentication session.
- Improved performance in Tableau Server when rendering views with a very large cross-tab.
- When publishing to a Tableau Server configured to use Active Directory authentication, an "Unable to send encrypted password" error occurred when the current user's Windows password was changed or reset while Tableau Desktop was open and logged on to Tableau Server. This issue has been resolved, and in this scenario Tableau now re-encrypts the new password to make the connection.
- Improved performance when setting global filters on dashboards using Microsoft Analysis Services and hierarchical filters.
- If the number of items in the Page drop-down for a Tableau Server view is longer than will fit on a single screen, the list would not scroll to allow selection of items further down the list. The drop-down control now scrolls when the list is long.
- Version 4.1 was released on September 24, 2008 and includes new features and other changes in both Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server.
- Connections to Cache databases would sometimes be closed when opening multiple workbooks at a time.
- Corrected some syntax problems with queries to MySQL that were using FULL JOIN rather than OUTER JOIN. MySQL does not support FULL JOIN.
- Sheet links when using Microsoft Analysis Services from Tableau Server was constructing slow MDX queries. These queries have been optimized.
- Corrected an issue with querying time and timestamp data from Netezza databases.
- Datasets with Latitude or Longitude defined as discrete datatypes would cause the application to crash. This is now handled correctly.
- Tableau would crash when saving in certain cases. Issue was related to creating certain thumbnail images, which has been corrected.
- Marks drawn for zip code 14208 were placed in the wrong location.
- Corrected issue where sheet links would work would work initially, but they would fail after saving and reopening the workbook. The problem was related to links on dates not retaining the proper date formatting for the link syntax when saved.
- Corrected problem when using Tableau online maps where not all map tiles would be retrieved.
- Added support for double-clicking a TMS file to launch the application.
- Corrected problem with Tableau 4.0 and Oracle SmartView 9.3.1 being installed on the same machine.
- Corrected problems loading file fbclient.dll from Desktop clients.
- Added the ability to edit Active Directory domain names and nicknames to the Administrative interface.
- Tableau would crash after a long period of inactivity on computers running Cisco Security Agent. This issue has been corrected.
- Corrected problems with offline activation still trying to send registration information over the internet.
- Corrected problems retrieving updated maintenance renewal information.
- Corrected issue of Tableau Server not being able to install on German operating systems.
- Tableau Server was performing license checks too frequently, causing poor performance when opening views while this check was performed. Tableau Server now checks for a valid license only once per day.
- Tableau Server would display the Select All option on quick filters that were set to single select mode . Choosing Select All would implicitly swap the quick filter to multi-select and then select all the values. This could cause very long running queries for large databases. Tableau Server now does not show the Select All button when in Single Select mode.
- Corrected problems when publishing very large workbooks to the Tableau Server .
- Corrected a crash in the VizQL Server process when canceling a query.
- Some workbooks with long running queries would fail when publishing to Tableau Server. A combination of code changes and server timeout settings correct this issue.
- Tableau Server sheet links were not always url-encoding properly, which would result in a message saying the destination sheet did not exist. Sheet links are now correctly url-encoded.
- Documentation improvements in the Online Help and Admin Guide relating to Active Directory trusted domains.
Tableau Desktop
Version 4.1.9 is displayed as build number 4100.9.0729.2100 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
Tableau Desktop
Version 4.1.8 is displayed as build number 4100.9.0624.2200 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
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Version 4.1.7 is displayed as build number 4100.9.0526.1901 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
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Version 4.1.6 is displayed as build number 4100.9.0415.2200 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
Tableau Desktop
Version 4.1.5 is displayed as build number 4100.9.0318.2200 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
Tableau Desktop
Version 4.1.4 is displayed as build number 4100.9.0205.1200 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
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Version 4.1.3 is displayed as build number 4100.9.0107.2200 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
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Version 4.1.2 is displayed as build number 4100.8.1124.2200 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
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Version 4.1.1 is displayed as build number 4100.8.1019.1900 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
New Features
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Web Map Service (WMS) Support Tableau 4.1 adds Web Map Service (WMS)support so you can retrieve custom maps from your own WMS servers. While the Tableau Online and Offline maps were carefully designed to display data effectively and beautifully for all kinds of data, the WMS support allows you to use Tableau with specialized maps that are custom to your organization. There are some public WMS servers available as well as a number of WMS enabled server products your organization may already have such as software from ESRI, MapInfo, or others. Tableau supports servers that have implemented the WMS 1.1.1 specification. You can download a quick start guide with step-by-step instructions for using a WMS server in Tableau 4.1 from the Quick Start Guides page. Active Directory Improvements If you use Active Directory authentication with Tableau Server, the 4.1 release adds several new capabilities to help you configure domain information. You can now specify the domain nickname during installation and modify both full domain names and nicknames after the server is up and running. |
Server Performance Improvements Many customers using Tableau Server will see performance improvements with the Tableau 4.1 upgrade. Specifically pages may load faster when requesting a view. In addition, the server has improved data caching, which increases responsiveness during interactive sessions. Refresh the data cache at any time to reload from the underlying data source. |
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Single Logon for Multiple Sheets Tableau Desktop now only asks you to logon to each database one time per workbook. The username and password provided are reused for each sheet that connects to the same server and database. For example, a workbook with three sheets, each connecting to different tables in the same database, will now only prompt you logon once instead of three times as in prior versions. |
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Connect to More Databases Tableau 4.1 now supports connections to both Teradata and Vertica databases. You need a special product key to connect to these databases. Contact your account manager to learn more. |
Other Changes
Tableau Desktop
Version 4.1 is displayed as build number 4100.8.0918.0100 on the Tableau Desktop About dialog box. This version is available on the Alternate Download Site.
