Field Notes & Reference Cards
Notes from the trenches of automating Tableau.
Hard-won lessons and runnable reference cards for people scripting against Tableau Server and Cloud — TSC, the REST API, the Metadata API, and everything that breaks when ambition meets scale.
Each Field Note is a lesson learned the hard way. Each Reference Card is a script you can run today.
Everything
5 total · 3 anti-patterns · 1 reference card · 1 field noteTypeTitleTopicPublished
- Reference CardFind orphaned datasources with active refreshesMetadata APIJUN 15, 2026
- Anti-PatternThe single point of knowledgeOwnershipJUN 12, 2026
- Anti-PatternThe phantom datasourceWasteJUN 10, 2026
- Field NoteThings I wish I'd known when I started building on TableauServerClientTableauServerClient · PythonJUN 9, 2026
- Anti-PatternThe phantom requestScopeJUN 3, 2026
In the pipeline
- Orphaned permissions audit
- Calculated field lineage tracer
- Workbook staleness scanner
- Refresh-job failure digest