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VizQL Data Service → Read Metadata
AI-generatedSummary
Reads field metadata for a Tableau datasource through the VizQL Data Service. Use it to retrieve fields and their metadata for downstream workflow steps; optional settings control which metadata is included and how it is interpreted.
Inputs
- Authentication — Choose Connected App (JWT), the default, or Personal Access Token. Connected App authentication can optionally impersonate a Tableau user; the UI says this requires site administrator privileges.
- Datasource ID (required) — The datasource LUID whose field metadata to read.
- Options — Optional flags to bypass the metadata cache, include group formula fields, include hidden fields, and interpret field captions as field names in query operations. Each defaults to false.
- Connections — Optional database connection credentials for live datasources with multiple connections: connection LUID, username, and password. The connection LUID is required when the datasource has multiple connections; omit this for most extract-based datasources.
Output shape
Not determinable from the supplied source pack.
The operation implementation is omitted from the source pack, so the returned data shape and runtime handling of the declared options cannot be confirmed. The operation is declared to read datasource field metadata.