I work for a school district, meaning most of my dashboards are not used throughout the summer. Since tableau automatically suspends any extract refreshes that are not accessed for over 32 days, this means I often get the notification that Tableau wants to stop refreshing my extracts to save resources. I also have several views that we need to look at incredibly frequently, but only seasonally (e.g. I need to be able to check students' test scores daily, but only in the months that they test).
The reality is that I have no need to refresh these extracts daily year round, but I do need them refreshing daily for the relevant timeframes. Is there a way to schedule extracts so that they refresh daily for some time period (say October thru June, or just the month of January or something), and then stop refreshing until the the same time next year?
#Tableau Cloud
Tableau doesn’t natively support seasonal refresh schedules like “October–June.” You could leave the schedule active and resume refreshes when needed, or automate enabling/disabling the refresh schedule through Tableau’s APIs for a yearly cycle.
