When a user publishes a workbook to a Server, they can designate whether or not they want all views to be hidden and/or if they want separate views to be available as tabs in the workbook UI.
Are these attributes stored within the workbook XML at all? If I download a workbook published to the server, and attempt to republish the workbook, the publish UI is prepopulated with the values previously selected during publication. This suggests the workbook is being mutated by the publishing process in some way to save the values in the XML, but I haven't been able to identify where this detail is captured.
Hi @Scott Snowman
This is an interesting one. I don't know the answer, but it's made me think there are other 'properties' that get retained eg it remembers where it was published too, any tags that exist on the object are visible etc
I've had a hunt in the XML too and can't see anything that might indicate the settings, so it's made me wonder whether it's perhaps stored elsewhere. Initially I thought it may be in a browser cookie or something but then thought that at the point of publishing, when the publish dialog loads (which can sometimes takes some time), it's actually doing a call to the server via the API and reading those properties back from the postgres...? I know it must interact with the server at that point as it has to check what permissions you have to determine what projects you can publish to, so the more I write this, the more I think that's how it knows.
So if you have access to your postgres, you may want to have a hunt about to see what you can find there.
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