VizAlerts
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Data-driven alerting for Tableau Server
Currently VizAlerts does not store information on what it is doing in a structured way. Text logs are written to, but they're not built in a structured way that one...
Setting up and configuring VizAlerts is currently a pain point. Python and several packages must be installed, the config file can be intimidating and is easy to get wrong, and...
If the admin misconfigures the "sms_from_number" field in the VizAlertsConfig workbook, Twilio will refuse to send a text message, but no email will be sent to alert the admin of...
Users will often subscribe to an entire Workbook rather than a single sheet. VizAlerts ignores this completely at present, which is confusing for users who expect their alert to run....
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...
See https://community.tableau.com/message/577785 The subscriber_license field in VizAlertsConfig workbook only indicates whether the user is licensed, and if so, what it is. It doesn't describe the Admin level of the user,...
Advanced Alerts can send multiple emails at once to dynamic sets of individuals / distribution lists. However, data or workbook issues can cause valid data to be present in one...
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...