Add Data Source Description

[ugamarkj]

Need the ability to add a description to a data source when publishing. Currently it overwrites the existing description with nothing.

[t8y8]

Hey Mark!

I just checked, the REST API backend doesn't support this -- we should add it!

/cc @benlower @RussTheAerialist

[ugamarkj]

Thanks Tyler. I’ll have to be more conservative with my auto-metadata Python script so I don’t lose my descriptions frequently. =)

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[t8y8]

It's also definitely a bug if we're overwriting existing descriptions!

[graysonarts]

the REST api doesn't support it, but I dug through the server code a bit today and it looks like it should be easy to pipe through. I'll ask @benlower to put it on our backlog for the server work.

[benlower]

thanks for raising this

[benlower]

test

[ugamarkj]

Curious to know if this is still on anyone's radar. I just checked and it is still a problem in 2019.2.

[ddrummond]

This is still a missing feature on 2019.3.3. Our client (a major fortune 500 company) would love to see this feature materialize.

[btorgesen]

Could someone please give an update on this feature. I'm the Tableau architect for a major bank and am working on an automated process to deploy enterprise data sources and workbooks to the all of the sites on our enterprise Tableau server. We need to be able to create projects (with descriptions) automatically for new sites.

[ImangulovA]

begging for it as well!

[JoeyKwok]

Still unavailable?

[ugamarkj]

With every release I'm like "maybe...maybe...dangit". I'm sure there are cross team dynamics at play.

[TimothyVermeirenBiztory]

Also still hoping for this capability to be available soon!