How to download actual hyper file published using Tableau Prep Builder toTableau Online?

Hi,

I'm curious whether you need the actual Hyper file or you just need to connect to the published data source??

Connecting to published data source:

In both Tableau Prep and Tableau Desktop you can connect to the published data source and use the data in that.

Downloading data source (and getting to the .hyper file):

There are multiple ways to do this:

- The copying the hyper file method that Budi described is not possible on Tableau Online because it requires access to the Tableau Online's Postgres database (to identify where the hyper file is stored) & internal file system (to actually retrieve the hyper file) and Tableau Online users don't have that level of access.

- In a web browser you can log into Tableau Server, navigate to the data source, and download it. This will give you the published data source as a .tdsx file and you can unzip it to get the .hyper file.

- In Tableau Desktop after connecting to the published data source you can right-click on the data source in the Data window and choose "Create local copy..." This will also download a .tdsx.

- In Tableau Prep Builder you can connect to the published data source, then immediately create an output to a .hyper file and run the flow. This method is not great since it's forcing Tableau Prep to regenerate the extract instead of just copying the file.

- It's also possible to create scripts to download published data sources using the Tableau REST API.

Jonathan