how to set datasource incremental refresh on tableau server?

Question

I'm new to Tableau.

I published MySQL datasource on my tableau server. And I changed the datasource to extract mode on my tableau web site. But I can't set the incremental refresh, just only full refresh.

On the other hand in my desktop tableau, I can set the incremental refresh. But it may affects on extracted data in my local pc.

How to set incremental refresh in my tableau server datasource?

I couldn't find about this in tableau manual site.

thanks a lot.

Answer 1

On Tableau Desktop you have to set your dataset in extract mode, selecting the incremental refresh (with a specific column to be considered as reference, such as ID or date).

Once you're done, you can publish that datasource in order to let Tableau server know how you want to handle data.

Basically, the first thing you need to do is setting the datasource and evaluate if you want to publish it on server (so other workbook can connect to it) or just publish that datasource "inside" a specific workbook.