Hidden views are displayed when publishing using WCP and WTAB

Hidden views are displayed when publishing using WCP and WTAB

Summary

When promoting content using WTAB Desktop, TVM Restoration, or WCP Promote content, workbooks that contain hidden dashboards or worksheets may have these views published instead of remaining hidden. This behavior differs from manual publishing via Tableau Desktop, where hidden views remain hidden.

Symptoms

  • Workbooks promoted with WTAB or WCP include all views, even those originally hidden.
  • Manual publishing from Tableau Desktop preserves hidden views as expected.
  • Migrating workbooks between sites using the Tableau REST API results in all views being published.

Root cause

The Tableau REST API currently requires specifying the list of views to hide when publishing a workbook. There is no method to:

  • Retrieve the list of hidden views from a published workbook.
  • Publish a workbook by specifying only the views to show.

Impact

  • Inconsistent visibility of dashboards after promotion.
  • Governance and user experience issues when hidden content becomes unintentionally visible.
  • Affects WTAB Desktop Publish to Tableau, TVM Restore, and TVM Promote Content workflows.

Workarounds

N/A

Next steps / communication

  1. Tableau has acknowledged this limitation. A new Workbook API is planned to address this use case, but no timeline is available.
  2. Customers should be informed that this is a known restriction of the current Tableau REST API.
  3. We will provide updates when Tableau releases the new API

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