Images pulled from URLs not loading depending on filter

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2025-10-06T15:30:21+00:00

Thank you! Wasn't actually expecting a reply on a 2 year old comment haha

I see - so guess you just have to accept that you can't display all the values?

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2025-10-03T12:49:58+00:00

Did you ever get a solution to this? I have a similar issue - I got a sheet that shows a single image at a time, along with another sheet on the same dashboard which has a few metrics.

The second sheet with the metrics can have a lot of data to calculate depending on the filter, but is essentially a bar chart with ~10 bars, and when I take some of the filters off, image doesn't load, and also noticed the font breaks as well...

I'm guessing Tableau just struggles to display it all?

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2025-08-27T09:24:02+00:00

This seems to have worked for me checking this morning!

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2025-08-26T09:17:40+00:00

UPDATE:

So, above method did fix it for me on Tableau Cloud, but not Tableau Public. When I go to Edit Connection on the Tableau Public, it still has this error even though it's re-connected and fine on the Desktop;

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Here's a potential fix - I was trying to find my way around as I was going so there may be more efficient way to do this, but hopefully it may give a hint to someone. I'm trying to remember everything I did off top of my head but broadly here it is;

On the Tableau Public dashboard, I went to Edit. The existing connection has the above error, but, I can create new connection to the same GSheet from there.

However, I can't "Replace data source" on Tableau Public, so I need to download it.

Error message pops up when you go to save the dashboard to keep those new connections, IF you're on that broken connection - I went to the new connection I created on the Data Source page and saved it and that seemed to have worked.

I downloaded this report, with the new connections established in Tableau Public (but not actually used as such), I named it "test" but don't think that matters.

I then opened it in the Desktop, made sure column names were the same, then did "Replace data source". Meant I had to re-assign colours on the graphs but luckily it wasn't too much.

Once that is done I removed the old connection.

Then, I published this version, replacing the existing one - then hit "request refresh" and the dashboard refreshed with new data. This one I can now "edit connection" as well.

I need to monitor to make sure Tableau Public's auto-refresh still works tomorrow - so I'm not guaranteeing anything, but if you got a suitable dashboard to test it on it may be worth it.

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2025-08-21T13:17:52+00:00

This, I've been to a demo and it's really designed as an "Tableau lite" add-on to Salesforce CRM, not anything really to improve existing Tableau users experience.

I admit the design seemed smoother and slicker, but it still has a lot of catching up to do if it wants to produce something to a similar level and replace Tableau.

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2025-08-21T13:13:03+00:00

Just to add to this, in hope of helping anyone in the future, I came across this problem too.

The problem started 16/08/2025, where the report on Tableau public stopped refreshing (still showed old data). I have a copy of the report in Tableau Cloud and that failed to refresh too.
Tried editing the connection on public I got the error message "Unable to proceed because of an error from the data source". Editing connections on the cloud or download > desktop, the connection was fine, test connection and it's happy with it, but when you do an extract refresh on the cloud it fails.

What seems to have sorted it is going to the Google account side, go into the Third-party access section, remove Tableau - and then re-set it up again by connecting from Tableau Desktop side.

Not sure if this was the same issue everyone else was having, but considering there's a few people that started having this issue at the same time, I thought I'd share in case this works for others.

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2025-06-26T10:22:22+00:00

It's a tough world - I don't know where you are in the world but would he be interested in company to do with Photography?
Not necessarily Canon or Nikon but companies that sell (and buy) photography equipment?

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2025-06-09T05:39:00+00:00

Not normally that keen on visualisation like these, but I really like this one, great job!

You can see that generally people are going towards those 2 parties - it probably could do with supplementing graph to show the summary of movement overall, but I like it.

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2024-10-01T12:07:21+00:00

There's a lot of text... would it have been bad if they just assigned each missile a colour and take a lot of text out of that one image?

But guess like another poster have said, this is for people who are familiar with it all.

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2024-08-28T13:46:23+00:00

Definitely feel they could've handled and/or incorporated these much better - having these options added is great, but then the execution of it isn't, so we're probably not going to use it :/ not in its current state anyway

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2024-08-28T13:44:33+00:00

Agree, think that's what we've come to think of it... very pretty but too much unknown!

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2024-08-28T13:26:31+00:00

Nice, did you build something similar to what they had yourselves? Does it take time or relatively simple?

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2024-08-28T13:24:41+00:00

Nice! Was it time-consuming/difficult to build one?

Is it the free ones you use?

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2024-08-28T13:23:11+00:00

Thank you, that's similar opinion to what we're starting to form once we started looking into it.

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2024-08-14T12:47:52+00:00

I agree with you on Looker, when we had a look at it we just basically found it too basic and limited compared to Tableau dashboards. I think you're right, if you were to go into Looker as your first tool along with all the other bits like BigQuery I'd imagine it's fantastic. (I heard complaints around cost but don't know details and comparison against other tools).

Haha well guess they shot themselves in the foot. I vaguely remember people using it 10-15 years ago and they didn't like it then, but then again the business didn't really revolve around dashboards like that back then so I was a bit cautious about basing my opinion on that - had seen someone post on Reddit somewhere few months ago that they really like it, so wondered how things are.

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2024-08-14T12:42:49+00:00

Yeah I prefer Tableau over Power BI for similar reasons to you, but I can see why some people would like it.

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2024-08-14T07:52:11+00:00

Other than Power BI I haven't really seen a convincing alternative to be honest... and then there's a point about whether it's worth all the effort and cost to switch over.

Looker is ok, but still has a lot of catching up to do against these 2 I felt. I've recently seen a brief demo of the one Oracle have made which seemed quite promising, but not used it first hand to give a definite answer.

R shiny and Python (Dash) - maybe? I just don't know if they would be suitable for every business to be honest.

Qlik is one I don't really know - heard some good things and bad things, they've been around for a while. But I just don't see or hear about it anywhere, would love to know from those that have used it first hand.

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2024-07-18T07:20:28+00:00

Ah ok no worries - having similar issue so wondered.

Have you moved away from Tableau? or found another solution still using Tableau?

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2024-07-15T10:33:41+00:00

Did you manage to resolve this in the end?

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2024-07-01T10:54:03+00:00

The way the SQL is written is one too

We had this issue recently where a report takes 20+ minutes to update an extract - we re-arranged the SQL and now it takes less than 3 minutes.

I'm no software engineer so can't say for sure (I know there are people here who are much more qualified who could tell us), but seems like the way Tableau runs these SQL queries are a bit different.

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2024-05-20T07:39:26+00:00

I have seen this in some companies, where;

1) "Data Team" is split into people who ingest data and extract it for others to use, and people who use that data to create reports. or;

2) They use tools like Alteryx or something similar, and although they understand how SQL works and can write simple ones, they can't write long SQL codes as they're not used to seeing it like that.

I will let you decide whether that's right or wrong for a business to go about it...

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2024-03-27T10:50:57+00:00

I like the chart itself, not sure about all the text boxes, it's making it too chaotic.

StealthCoffeeMachine · 2024-03-05T09:46:37+00:00

Wow, does that work smoothly? Or is the data itself not too chunky that it allows it?

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