I am working on tableau 10.0. And I am trying to download workbook with the help of "tabcmd" command. So for that I am passing two date parameters for date range(start date & End date).
I am trying the same by following way:
Command:
tabcmd export "Workbook/SheetName?StartDate=2013-12-2900:00:00&EndDate=2014-03-1423:59:59" --fullpdf -f "D:\Test\Report1.pdf" --no-certcheck
But it is returning workbook with default values(which I have set during publishing workbook) and not as per the values that I am trying to pass.
Same process I have achieved with tableau 9.3 with above syntax
But I am unaware of how to achieve same in Tableau 10.0. So I would like to seek your help regarding the same
Finally I got solution.
In such case if you have space in parameter name like(Start Date &End Date) then you have to use %20 in place of space that is Start%20Date & End%20Date and
Date format should be 'yyyy-mm-dd'
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I have a crystal report I run weekly and manually update the dates to pull the last 7 days (not including today). I've tried to use 'in last7days' and/or {date} >= minimum(lastfullweek) + 1
and {date} <= maximum(lastfullweek) + 1. I can't get this query to run - I get an error saying a string is required here. My date format is yyyy-mm-dd. I need to update this report to run automatically - I don't want to run the report by manually updating the date range every week. Thanks in advance for your help!
You are probably comparing a string to a date. Check the data types of the elements in your expression. Most likely your {date} column is a string rather than a date.
See if you can convert it to a date (e.g. the cDate() function).
Try R-Tag Community Edition. It is free and has the option to set the dates and other values outside the report so you don't have to hardcode them inside the report.
I am trying to convert a field that contains strings such as 202008, 202108 to a date field. I have tried the date() function, clicking on the measure and converting it to a date. I have also tried DATE(LEFT([Month],4)+"-"+RIGHT([Month],2)+"-01") but that will only return the year.
Using Tableau Desktop 2021.1, when I change the data type from String to Date, Tableau translates the strings to 8/1/2020 and 8/1/2021. If you are using an earlier version of Desktop, it is possible that this functionality is not present.
However, if changing the data type isn't working for you, the calculated field code you provided should actually work, you just need to change the date part from Year to Month/Day/Year using the Custom date part option.
I have created daily dashboard which shows the data for single date selected from DATE PARAMETER (with ALL value). Which is OK for me that I can see the data for any date I want.
But the problem is when I open my dashboard it is showing data for date which I selected in date parameter while publishing the Dashboard to Server/Online and Instead of that I want set it default to Yesterday.
i.e. when I open my dashboard first time it should show yesterday's data and also there should option to change date as well to see another date data.
Can we achieve this using DATE PARAMETER (with ALL values)? If it is not possible then is there any other way?
Please Help!
Use a relative date filter instead of a parameter. Just be sure to save and publish the workbook with Yesterday as the relative date value.
1, Create a calculation field d_yesterday, formula is TODAY()-1
2, Create a parameter, data type is Date, value when workbook opens set to d_yesterday
3, use the Date parameter in other calculations fields, or insert parameter into custom SQL query.
I am pulling in date information via MySQL and the date is in the string format of "MM/dd/YY hh:mm:ss"
Using the built in conversion to date isnt working; so I tried using DATEPARSE and also using DATE and manually parsing it. I have had no luck and I have no idea why I keep getting "null" as the answer or it is putting the month as year, day as month, and year as day.
See screenshots below for the different formulas I have used:
DATEPARSE
Original date format
DATE with manual parsing
This worked for me using your example original data
DATEPARSE('mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss',[Time] )
I used tableau's documentation of custom date formats to find the right formula for the format.
If this doesn't solve the problem then it is most likely due to a Locale issue. The Dateparse function relies on the locale specified by your computer settings to interpret and then display the strings you want to convert and can affect whether a certain format can be specified. This means that if a certain format is not recognised it will return a null. This will often occur is the windows region and language format is changed to another language other than the original language the workbook was created it.
So check your locale and if required execute the following workaround (documented by tableau here):
Open Windows control panel > region and language > format
Click format dropdown and change to original language of workbook creation
click ok or apply and reopen tableau work book
I am using Tableau 9.3 to do a preliminary data analysis on one of my log file, the log file is like below:
"199.72.81.55",01/Jul/1995:00:00:01,/history/apollo/,200,6245,Sat
As you can see, there is a datetime for timestamp
In Tableau, initially it is recognized as a string like below:
That's fine, I want to make the field into datetime, and Tableau seems failed on it:
Why? How do I fix it?
Thank you very much.
UPDATED: after applying the formula suggested below, Tableau still cannot recognize the timestamp, here is the screenshot:
UPDATED AGAIN: after tested by nick, it is confirmed his first script is correct and working on his Tableau, why it fails on mine, I don't know, you are welcome to share any clue please, thank you.
Tableau implicit conversions are limited to more standard formats. You can still create a DATETIME field from your timestamp string using a calculated field with the following formula:
DATEPARSE('dd/MMM/yyyy:HH:mm:ss',[timestamp])
Using the above will transform a string like 01/Jul/1995:00:00:01 to a date and time of 7/1/1995 12:00:01 AM
Output using example data:
Sometimes the "date parse" function in Tableau doesn't quite do the job.
When this happens it is worth testing manual string manipulation with your timestamp field to put it into ISO-standard format and only then trying to convert it into a date. ISO format is yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss (eg 2012-02-28 13:04:30). It is common to find that the original string has spurious characters or spaces that throw dateparse. But these are usually easy to manipulate away with suitable text manipulations. This can sometimes be longwinded, but it always works.
It turned out to be the region setting issue, it works after I switch it to USA