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hsheth2 authored Jan 23, 2025
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We need the `Site Administrator Explorer` site role in order to get complete metadata from Tableau.
We need the **Site Administrator Explorer** site role in order to get complete metadata from Tableau.

With any lower role, the Tableau Metadata API returns missing/partial metadata. This particularly affects data source fields and definitions, which impacts our ability to extract columns and generate column lineage. As such, other site roles like `Viewer` are insufficient with the current Tableau Metadata API.
With any lower role, the Tableau Metadata API returns missing/partial metadata.
This particularly affects data source fields and definitions, which impacts our ability to extract most columns and generate column lineage. Some table-level lineage is also impacted.

Other site roles, including Site Administrator Creator and Viewer, are insufficient due to these limitations in the current Tableau Metadata API.

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