Tableau 2020.2 summary data behaviour

[merlijnbuit]

Hi,

Some of our extensions are crashing with Tableau 2020.2. I opened the same extension in 2020.1 and 2020.2 beta and I found a difference in the summary data:

2020.1

2020.2

It looks like measures in 2020.2 are being exported as strings. The result is that our calculations in extensions are not working anymore because measures look like this now: '2000+2000+2000' instead of 6000

Thanks Merlijn

[johnDance]

Hi Merlijn: Sorry for the hassle. We found this issue, and it is fixed, but it didn't make the beta release. I'll check with @Kovner and see if there is going to be an update to beta.

In the next beta and/or 2020.2 release, the values will be their native type again. Also, we are adding an additional field: nativeValue. This will be in the extension library 1.4. The benefits of nativeValue is that Date and Date-Time fields are exported as Date objects rather than strings. In addition, if you have to worry about special values, nativeValue makes this much easier, because rather than being a string "%null%", it will be null.

John

[merlijnbuit]

Hi John,

Thank you, that sounds perfect! We are starting with the 1.4 beta next week. We will keep you and the team posted on bugs and feature requests and positive feedback.

[johnDance]

Merlijn: Just to clarify the nativeValue update in 1.4. I should have mentioned this above. Because of string result defect in the beta 2020.2, all the nativeValues will be null. :-( Both of these issues will be fixed in the updated 2020.2 beta, or final. John

[merlijnbuit]

Hello John,

As Tableau 2020.2 is released on Tableau Online and I can't find a 2020.2 beta 2. Can you please verify that this is fixed when 2020.2 releases?

Merlijn

[johnDance]

Will Do. Meanhile @Kovner - can you get Merlijn connected with beta 2?

[Kovner]

We only release beta per release now. I will reach out to Merlijn offline though.

[bcantoni]

Closing as fixed.