Wiiisdom for Tableau Desktop - 2025.2

Release date: April 17th, 2025

Happy Spring Everyone ! 🌱

Here are the releases notes for Wiiisdom for Tableau Desktop

As always, you can find important links just below:

Full Documentation: https://support.wiiisdom.com/documentation
Download Site: https://support.wiiisdom.com/downloads

Of course, do get in touch if you need help with updating.

New Features

Automatic Tableau Version Detection

When creating a new context, you had to manually set the Tableau version within the application. With this update, our system now automatically detects and sets the appropriate Tableau version for you.

This improvement not only saves time but also ensures a smoother and more efficient workflow. Enjoy the convenience of seamless integration with Tableau!

Enhanced Tableau View Image capture

Comparing images that were taken on two application could results in false negative, because the view size was different.

To improve this, we have revamped the way images of Tableau Views are captured within our application. This update aims to making regression testing more efficient. By default, the view size is set to 1920x1080, but it can be adjusted as needed.

This enhancement ensures consistency and accuracy in your visual comparisons, streamlining your workflow and improving overall productivity.

Assert Filter Equals: Check Filter Use All Values

We are excited to introduce a new testing feature for the Assert Filter Equals task in Functional tests: Check Filter: Use All Values. This feature addresses the challenges faced when dealing with categorical filters configured to use all values from a database, especially when the database contains a large number of rows.

The new feature allows users to check if a filter is configured to use all values directly from the database, rather than from a predefined list in Tableau.

Configuration Options: Users can now activate the "Check Filter: Use All Values" option to verify the existence, type, and configuration of filters without testing the actual values, thus avoiding performance issues caused by large datasets.

Enhanced Testing Tasks: This feature is integrated into existing testing tasks:

Assert Filter Equals: Ensures that filters are correctly configured to use all values without verifying the filter values themselves.
Regression Tests: Adds granularity with a new "Check filter domain values" feature, allowing users to test domain values coming exclusively from the datasource. We also added a way to avoid retrieving these values when taking a snapshot, thereby improving performance.

Use Case:

For example, a user with a filter configured to use all values from a database with large number of rows can now activate this feature to ensure the filter's configuration is correct without the need to test each value. This significantly reduces the load on the system and improves test execution times.

Backward Compatibility:

Please note that due to the changes in how snapshots are handled, regression tests created with previous versions of the application will need to be updated. Users will need to refresh their snapshots to ensure compatibility with the new feature.
This feature is not supported in Tableau Server versions older than 2022.2, as the domain values are not exportable using the Tableau APIs and therefore it is not necessary to refresh existing snapshots on these older versions.

Change logs

▪ Changed the LicenseSpring HardwareID Generation to make it more reliable.

▪ Deprecated the window-size parameter to replace it with view-size

▪ Removed the Database Name field when using Publishing Tasks, as it was no longer required.

Bug

▪ Viz image not displayed when taking a baseline for a project accessed on a network drive (Impact: Medium)
Description: WTAB desktop is unable to take a snapshot when the project is located in a network drive on Windows.
ID: WOFT-2614

▪ Unable to take a snapshot in a Functional Test when an Open Viz URL has user defined variables (Impact: Medium)
Description: User Defined Variables are not supported when taking a Functional Snapshot.
ID: WOFT-1277

▪ Unable to trigger Webhook integration when running a project (Impact: Medium)
Description: An error is raised when running a project with a “Webhook integration”.
ID: WOFT-2690

▪ HWID is changing randomly on Windows (Impact: Medium)
Description: Hardware Fingerprint changes randomly and makes the user reactivate his license again.
ID: WOFT-2586

▪ Unable to validate a Query when using Redshift in the Assert SQL Equals task (Impact: Low)
Description: When validating a Redshift SQL query in the Designer, if it takes more than 5 seconds, it returns an error.
ID: WOFT-2556