Refresh Tableau Extract Plugin

A big thanks to my employer Inquidia Consulting (http://www.inquidia.com) for allowing me to open source and make this plugin available.

The Refresh Tableau Extract plugin allows you to refresh an extract on a Tableau server from PDI. It can perform a full refresh of any extract, update an incremental extract from a database, or append new files to an existing extract.

This plugin utilizes the Tableau command line utility detailed at http://onlinehelp.tableausoftware.com/v8.1/pro/online/en-us/extracting_TDE.html.

System Requirements

• Pentaho Data Integration 5.0 and above (Version 1.0 supports PDI 4.3 and above all later versions require 5.0 and above.)
  • The version available for install from the Pentaho marketplace supports Pentaho 5.0-5.3
  • PDI 5.4 requires a special build and manual installation. This build is available at: https://github.com/cdeptula/refreshtableauextract/releases/tag/2.0.1a
• Tableau 8.0 and above

Installation

Install using the Pentaho Marketplace or unzipping to the ${PDI_HOME}/plugins/jobentries folder.

Building from Source

This project uses ant; however, you must manually configure your classpath before building.

1. Edit the build.properties file and set the Java build version and Pentaho version
2. Build the plugin using "ant resolve dist"
3. The plugin will be in the dist directory.