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DikshaGa1
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March 9, 2026
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Workfront Data connect to Tableau

  • March 9, 2026
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Hi,

I’m working with Workfront Data Connect to share data from Workfront to Tableau so I can build a report. My questions are below:

  1. Workfront Data Connect syncs data to Tableau every four hours. For example, if I create a MySQL query for this year’s project entry dates, will tickets raised today be reflected in the Tableau report after the next sync?

  2. I have to change or update the MySQL only in the case if I need to see some other dates data/ or some other columns in Tableau report?

  3. I created a MySQL query, but I’m not sure how to save it or what the next step is to have the data appear in Tableau. Could you please advise?

Regards,

Diksha G.

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KatherineLa
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KatherineLaCommunity Advisor
Community Advisor
March 9, 2026

For the Data Connect product, the information from Workfront syncs to the Snowflake datalake every 4 hours. To view when the last refresh occurred by object, you can create a query against the ‘Job History’ table in Tableau. The ‘Monitoring Data Refreshes’ table may also be valuable to see what specifically was changed in the last refresh. 

 

When the sync happens between Snowflake and your internal Tableau datasource is up to your developers, though having it happen more frequently than every four hours would be unnecessary processing.

 

How often you need to change your query depends on the design of the query. If it’s set to automatically pull all records, then I would expect to need updates only if you want to change the fields included. 

 

I’m not sure how you are linking the idea of a MySQL query and Tableau though. Are you loading data from Snowflake into an internal MySQL DB and then connecting Tableau to that DB? 

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