Would be possible to add an option to have incremental refresh for workbooks or datasources? #761

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2. smafra commented on Dec 17, 2020

   

   smafra

   on Dec 17, 2020

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   Hi @rafaeljraposo,

   Thanks for the answer. Any known workarounds for that?
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4. hydriniumh2 commented on Apr 27, 2022

   

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   This is an old issue, but commenting for anyone else with the same issue. It's possible to trigger the incremental refresh of a datasource, you just have to use the tasks api to run the extract rather than the datasources api

   import tableauserverclient as tsc
   import xmltodict
   
   
   personal_access_token_name = ''
   personal_access_token_secret = ''
   tableau_server = ''
   
   # Name of the data source in tableau
   datasource = ''
   
   tableau_auth = tsc.PersonalAccessTokenAuth(
       token_name=personal_access_token_name,
       personal_access_token=personal_access_token_secret
   )
   server = tsc.Server(tableau_server, use_server_version=True)
   server.auth.sign_in(tableau_auth)
   
   # Get datasource id from datasource name
   req_option = tsc.RequestOptions(pagesize=1000)
   req_option.filter.update([tsc.Filter(tsc.RequestOptions.Field.Name, tsc.RequestOptions.Operator.Equals, datasource)])
   all_datasources = list(tsc.Pager(server.datasources, req_option))
   
   datasource_id = all_datasources[0].id
   
   # Get 1000 tasks and then filter for only extract tasks under the datasource id of interest
   # I don't believe you can filter tasks
   all_extracts = list(tsc.Pager(server.tasks, tsc.RequestOptions(pagesize=1000)))
   
   # The task type for incremental extracts is 'IncrementExtractTask' and full extracts is 'extractRefresh'
   extracts = [i for i in all_extracts if (i.target.id == datasource_id) and ('IncrementExtractTask' == i.task_type)]
   
   incremental_extract_obj = extracts[0]
   
   # Trigger the incremental extract associated with the datasource
   update_xml = server.tasks.run(incremental_extract_obj)
   job_id = xmltodict.parse(update_xml)['tsResponse']['job']['@id']
   print(f"Refresh extract job {job_id} created")

   This is working on Tableau Server version 2021.4.3 with Tableau Python Server Client 0.16.0

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5. NandiniCS commented on Nov 7, 2022

   

   NandiniCS

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   How to do the Incremental refresh on workbooks using python script. it´s defaulted to full extract always. Do let me know.
6. harrydevforlife commented on Nov 18, 2025

   

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   Thanks @hydriniumh2, it works well.
7. github-actions commented on Aug 6, 2026

   

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9. jacalata commented on Aug 6, 2026

   

   jacalata

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   Closing — incremental refresh was added in PR #1545 (feat: incremental refresh for extracts). Both workbooks.refresh() and datasources.refresh() now accept an incremental=True kwarg:

   server.workbooks.refresh(workbook, incremental=True)
   server.datasources.refresh(datasource, incremental=True)
   
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    closed this as completedon Aug 6, 2026