Hi,
I feel this is going to be a bit of a stupid question:
I have worked a lot with Tableau Online and recently moved to Tableau Server. My question is related to Excel sources. When I replace my excel how are workbooks updated where this excel is included? In Online I have used bridge but I don't need this for the server. But how does the server now where the Excel is? I have tried everything with live connection / extracts, published separetly but nothing seems to make sure that when I replace the excel my dashboards get update.
This probably shouldn't be that difficult. What am I doing wrong?
Regards,
Paul
Typically, you'd be working from a mapped drive, let's say it's your S drive. Typically, you can look at the mapped drive and it will show you the UNC path. For example, see the image below:
Let's say you have a file on the S drive and its path is something like S:\MyFiles\Tableau\Data.xlsx. If you look at the mapped drive, you can see it's mapped to \\sims-server\data. So, you can replace the "S" in your file path with this, resulting in a full UNC path: \\sims-server\data\MyFiles\Tableau\Data.xlsx
Does that make sense?
