Jonathan Drummey
Jonathan Drummey
Occasionally we're getting failures on SMS alerts where it seems like something's gone wrong in the download of the alert CSV, here's the email we're getting: ``` The following errors...
There are at least three challenges for Tableau Online support: 1) VizAlerts directly queries the PosgreSQL database and there aren't equivalent REST API functions. This would require a new scheduling...
Now that Tableau has added more features on Server/Online for controlling orientation we had a user get confused about that. The documentation around the mergepdf feature that talks about orientation...
There was a question from the VizAlerts presentation at TC16 https://community.tableau.com/docs/DOC-10039 on exporting directly to Excel .XLSX format since apparently some users demand that instead of CSV. This is a...
See the thread in https://community.tableau.com/message/556231#556231 for full details. The two main changes are: 1) noting that only allowed_from_address and allowed_recipient_addresses absolutely have to be set for emails to go out....
Paul Chapman had a blog post recently about putting animated GIFs of sets of views in a Tableau Server Project as a graphical way to show what's in the Project:...
As an alternative (or addition?) to SMS delivery add support for WhatsApp. PATH is an international healthcare NGO working with the Zambian Ministry of Health to eliminate malaria, with the...
A set of code already exists for this feature at https://github.com/jdrummey/VizAlerts/tree/file-export. There are several cases for exporting a viz to a file: - Using a Tableau viz as a data...
This is something Matt & I talked about at one point in the development of VizAlerts 2.0: The idea is to have concatenated strings (delimited by a field that is...
With VizAlerts 2.0 it's now necessary to have Tableau Desktop, the PostgreSQL driver, and access to the PostgreSQL repository for the machine that Tableau Desktop is running from. Not all...