Tableau Next Considerations, Guidelines, and Limits

Considerations are factors to understand before working with Tableau Next. Guidelines define best-practice recommendations to improve your use of Tableau Next for optimal performance. Limits are boundaries beyond which features are unavailable or usage billing charges are applied.

Required Editions

View supported editions.

Localization Limitations

Tableau Next is localized with these exceptions.

  • Tableau Next offers limited language support. For a complete list of supported languages, see the Analytics Cloud section of User Interface Language Support.
  • Included apps, metric insights, and Agentforce features aren’t multilingually supported.

Tableau Next provides internationalization support with these exceptions.

  • To see translated labels, set both the locale and language.
  • Data sources aren't modified for localization or internationalization.
  • Data sources can have a single locale specified in the metadata, including data models and process definitions. Their locale isn’t overridden by individual user locale settings.

Workspace Considerations and Limits

Consider these limits when working with workspaces in Tableau Next.

Feature or Function Guidelines and Limits Hard Limit? Additional Information and Resources
Maximum number of assets per workspace 500 Yes  
Share a workspace Only workspace owners can share. By sharing, you grant other users permission to view or edit an asset. You can't grant users the owner role.

Personal Org Limits

Consider these limits when working with Personal Orgs in Tableau Next.

Feature or Function Guidelines and Limits Hard Limit? Additional Information and Resources
User sharing / collaboration A Personal Org can be shared with up to 50 other analysts.   This applies to analysts you invite to collaborate on your work-in-progress.
Concurrent reuse operations Maximum of 50 active concurrent reuse operations.    
DC1 organization types Personal Orgs are not supported in companion Data Cloud One (DC1) organizations. Yes Personal Orgs are exclusively provisioned for Home organizations in Data Cloud One (DC1).
Sandbox organizations Personal Orgs are not supported in Sandbox organizations. Yes  
Schema mismatch / reuse Reuse is blocked if the production asset has a newer schema version than the asset in the Personal Org. Yes Users must wait for Personal Org upgrade to match production version.
Assets per share operation Up to 100 DLOs, CIOs, and DMOs can be included in a single workspace share operation. Yes This limit applies to the number of assets shared at one time.

Data Limits

These limits apply to data in Tableau Next.

Feature or Function Production Org Limit Personal Org Limit Hard Limit? Additional Information and Resources
Maximum number of CSV uploads per org 100 500    
Maximum number of XLXS uploads per org 100 500    
Maximum size of CSV text file 100 MB 100 MB  
Maximum columns in CSV text file 100 100  
Maximum size of XLXS file 100 MB 100 MB    
Maximum columns in XLXS file 100 100  
Maximum DLOs created via File (CSV) upload per org 100 500 No Customers can contact their account manager about increasing this limit.
Maximum DLOs created via File (XLXS) upload per org 100 500 No Customers can contact their account manager about increasing this limit.

Semantic Model Considerations

Keep these considerations in mind when working with semantic models in Tableau Next.

Feature or Function Guidelines and Limits Hard Limit? Additional Information and Resources
Share a semantic model Only semantic model owners can share.   Users must also have access to the data space that the model belongs to. See Associate a Permission Set with a Data Space.

Metrics Considerations

Keep these considerations in mind when working with Tableau Next metrics.

Feature or Function Guidelines and Limits Hard Limit? Additional Information and Resources
Share a metric You can’t share an individual metric in Tableau Next.   Users see a metric if it's part of a semantic model that they have access to.

Visualization Considerations and Limits

Consider these limits when working with Tableau Next visualizations.

Feature or Function Guidelines and Limits Hard Limit? Additional Information and Resources
Maximum number of rows returned per query 5,000 Yes  
Share a visualization Only visualization owners can share.   By sharing, you grant other users permission to view an asset. You can't grant users the owner role.
Add actions Only 5 Salesforce actions can be added per visualization field. Yes  
Create a waterfall chart Waterfall chart limitations    
Forecast data Forecasting data limitations    

Dashboard Considerations and Limits

Keep these limits and guidelines in mind when designing and updating Tableau Next dashboards. Server-side validation automatically checks dashboard metadata upon creation or update to ensure optimal rendering speeds, layout stability, and system performance.

Feature or Function Guidelines and Limits Hard Limit? Additional Information and Resources
Share a dashboard Only dashboard owners can share.   By sharing, you grant other users permission to view an asset. You can't grant users the owner role.
Add Salesforce Flow actions Only 1 Salesforce Flow action can be added per dashboard button or container. Yes  
Total widgets 5,000 Yes Total widgets allowed across the entire dashboard.
Layout 1 Yes Number of supported device/screen size layouts per dashboard.
Pages per layout 50 Yes Maximum number of distinct pages within a single dashboard layout.
Widget placements per page 500 Yes Maximum layout grid placements on an individual page.
Actions per widget 50 Yes Maximum interactions on a single widget.
Dynamic tokens per widget 200 Yes Maximum dynamic tokens defined on an individual widget.

Tableau Agent Limitations, Considerations, and Limits

These limits and considerations apply to subagents and actions of Tableau Agent in Tableau Next.

Tableau Agent with Data Analysis Limits and Considerations

For a list of limitations specific to the Analytics and Visualization template with the Data Analysis subagent see Limitations for Conversational Analytics in Tableau Agent.

Tableau Next Metadata API Limits

These limits apply to the AnalyticsWorkspace, AnalyticsDashboard, and AnalyticsVisualization entities.

Feature or Function Guidelines and Limits Hard Limit? Additional Information and Resources
Maximum number of instances in a single deploy request per entity type 50 Yes A request can include multiple entity types.
Maximum number of instances in a single retrieve request per entity type 100 Yes A request can include multiple entity types.
Maximum number of instances across all deploy operations per entity type per day 100 Yes  
Maximum number of instances across all retrieve operations per entity type per day 200 Yes  

Unmetered Usage Guidelines and Limits

These guidelines and limits apply to unmetered Tableau Next usage, available with the unmetered Tableau Next permission.

Feature or Function Guidelines and Limits Hard Limit? Additional Information and Resources
Maximum concurrent queries per org 100    
Minutes until queries time out 2    
Compute hours per day 5000    
Minimum number of minutes between extracts and metric refreshes 15    
Maximum concurrent transforms per org 50   Unmetered transforms are supported in the home org only.
Maximum rows processed in transforms per month 20 billion   For the Personal Org, the limit is applied at the production org level.
Maximum batch transforms per org

Without Data 360 Profile: 1000

With Data 360 Profile: Varies by contract (either 25 or 100 per Profile), plus 50 transforms per creator

No

Unmetered transforms are supported in the home org only.

For more information, see Data 360 Profiles License Billing and Limits.

Contact your Account Executive to adjust this limit.

Tableau Next on Mobile Devices

Review the following specifications for Tableau Next on the Salesforce Mobile App.

  • Dashboards and Metrics: Tableau Next supports viewing dashboards and metrics on mobile devices.
  • Metrics must be followed using a desktop browser to be visible in the mobile app.