Hide Views when Publishing a Workbook

[twozeroseven]

A workbook with worksheets set to hidden - which is not uncommon for Workbooks with 1 dashboard view and many hidden worksheets. Upon publishing via workbook.publish() method the sheets show up on Tableau server as visible.

[subodh-kumar11]

Hi Team,

I also have same concern.
When publishing workbook to the server, hidden sheets are being visible, which we don't want?

Any help on this concern.

Regards,
Subodh kumar

[subodh-kumar11]

Hi twozeroseven,

Did you get any solution?
If yes, please help me out.

Regards,
Subodh Kumar

[reevery]

It's not possible through the API directly (as far as I know).

Once it's published, you can delete the views (which doesn't delete them from the workbook, just makes them invisible). I'm not convinced that can be done programmatically because I don't think the ability to remove a view is in the API either.

Please upvote https://community.tableau.com/ideas/7768

[twozeroseven]

Is there a better way to setup a workbook to not have hidden sheets?

[irwando]

This was added to REST API, need to plumb it through:

https://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/api/rest_api/en-us/REST/rest_api_ref_workbooksviews.htm#publish_workbook

[irwando]

Duplicate of #315

[julien10]

Any update on that matter ?

[shinchris]

This has been added by @scuml in #614. The change is in the 'development' branch until the next release.