Help Manual - Tableau Hyper Publish Task

Documentation on SSIS Tableau Hyper Publish Task Component

Using the Tableau Hyper Publish Task

The Tableau Hyper Publish Task is an SSIS control flow pipeline component that can be used to perform an action to Tableau Hyper. There are two pages of configuration:

  • General
  • Error Handling

The General page is used to specify general settings for the Tableau Hyper Publish Task. The Error Handling page allows you to specify how errors should be handled when they occur.

General Page

The General page allows you to specify general settings for the component.

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Connection Manager

The Tableau Hyper Publish Task requires a Tableau Hyper connection. The Tableau Hyper Connection Manager option will show all Tableau Hyper connection managers that have been created in the current SSIS package or project.


 File Path

This option allows you to set the file path for the hyper data file.

Remove File After Publish

Check this option to remove temp file generated when importing the data from csv file after publish (if applicable).

Action

The Action option allows you to specify how data should be written to Tableau Hyper. There are currently two (2) supported:

  • Append 
  • Overwrite 
As Job

Check this to enable the write process as job.

Project

Select the project from the dropdown list based on the prior configuration.

Data Source

Select the Data Source from the dropdown list based on the prior configuration.

Table Name

Select the Table Name from the dropdown list based on the prior configuration.

OAuth

Select the option to enable OAuth for the data source connection.

Embed

Check or uncheck option for embedding the data source connection.

Username

Username for the data source connection credentials.

Password

Password for the data source connection credentials.

Refresh Component Button

Clicking the Refresh Component button causes the component to retrieve the latest metadata and update each attribute to its most recent metadata.

Expression fx Button

Clicking the fx button to launch SSIS Expression Editor to enable dynamic updates of the property at run time.

Generate Documentation Button

Clicking the Generate Documentation button to generate a Word document that describes the component's metadata including relevant mapping, and so on.


    Error Handling Page

    The Error Handling page allows you to specify how errors should be handled when they happen.

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    There are three options available.

    1. Fail on error
    2. Write error to variable - This allows to select a variable to which the error can be written to.
    3. Ignore error