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henridwyer

opened on Jul 28, 2016

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It would be very useful to be able to create a workbook or data source files, not only modify existing ones.

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1. benlower commented on Jul 28, 2016

   

   benlower

   on Jul 28, 2016

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   Thanks, @henridwyer! Creation is definitely on our radar. Do you have any suggested starting points? How would you want to create something? Totally from scratch? Would love any more info you could provide about how you'd like to use it.
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3. henridwyer commented on Jul 28, 2016

   

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   It would be nice to create a TDS for any arbitrary connection, something like:

   connection = Connection.create(dbname, server, username, authentication)
   Datasource.create(output_file_name, connections=[connection]).save()
4. benlower commented on Jul 28, 2016

   

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   OK cool thanks for the additional feedback.

   From: Henri Dwyer [email protected]
   Reply-To: tableau/document-api-python [email protected]
   Date: Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 14:41
   To: tableau/document-api-python [email protected]
   Cc: Ben Lower [email protected], Comment [email protected]
   Subject: Re: [tableau/document-api-python] Creating workbooks and data source files (#68)

   It would be nice to create a TDS for any arbitrary connection, something like:

   connection = Connection.create(dbname, server, username, authentication)
   Datasource.create(output_file_name, connections=[connection]).save()
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5. t8y8 commented on Jul 30, 2016

   

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   Creating a connection (with the subset of elements we support today) would be pretty simple: Add a new class method that builds an empty Connection ElementTree-tree and then pass that into the existing Constructor and fill out all the attributes.

   Making a datasource is a little trickier... Making the skeleton for the XML is easy enough, but we don't have any logic to build out columns and such yet -- I think an empty datasource would still load in Desktop/Server but I'd have to check to see if anything is broken.

   I like the api recommended by @henridwyer -- connections=[c1, c2, c3]
6. t8y8

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   Create New Connections per #68 (#69)

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7. rishabh-90 commented on Sep 27, 2017

   

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   Any update on this I am also trying to create empty Workbooks with DataSource in it.

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