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Creating workbooks and data source files

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Review the library's existing workbook and datasource modification APIs to understand how their file representations are handled. Define the creation scope for both workbook and datasource files, then confirm that newly created files can be opened and used by Tableau.

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Description

enhancement

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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Python
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