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Email Action values that don't resolve to 0 / 1 result in a failure

Open mcoles opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

Email Action is set up to return a 0 or 1 by default, which isn't ideal, because Tableau likes to create this as a Measure, which really isn't what it's for. We should switch this to true / false in the future and update the code to match.

Because of the measure-izing of that field, Tableau likes to SUM it by default. But it looks like any value that doesn't match a 0 or a 1 will be handled badly by the VizAlerts code right now, resulting in an unhelpful error email. Those values should either result in a more helpful error email, or just be ignored outright, since we're looking for a 1 value to trigger the email. Gotta think a bit more about that...

mcoles avatar Nov 29 '17 19:11 mcoles

Agreed, making it a Boolean data type is logical.

AirCooledNut avatar Jan 29 '18 16:01 AirCooledNut