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Is it possible to do automatic Incremental Refreshes?

Open tehandyb opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

Hi is it possible to automatically execute an Incremental Refresh after one has just finished? I am using Incremental refresh right now as a way to download large queries from my server that I have to download in chunks for performance reasons.

tehandyb avatar Nov 06 '17 22:11 tehandyb

Hey @tehandyb,

This would not be possible just using the WDC API. However, you could (sortof) achieve this with a combination of the WDC and our Rest API. How that would look is the following:

  1. Create your WDC and publish it to server.
  2. Use the REST API to kick off an incremental refresh.
  3. Continually poll the status of that refresh.
  4. Once it's finished, repeat step 2.

So that would require you to have a service that's up and running indefinitely.

lbrendanl avatar Nov 06 '17 23:11 lbrendanl

@lbrendanl Hey that's interesting. Would a solution like that be possible if we don't have Tableau server? We just have Tableau Desktop to connect to the WDC.

tehandyb avatar Nov 07 '17 21:11 tehandyb