Last Modified Date: 18 Jul 2023
Environment
- Tableau Desktop
- Tableau Prep
- Text Files
Resolution
Resolution for Possibly Cause 1 (please refer to Root Cause)
Option 1:
Save the CSV file with ANSI, OEM, UTF-8, or UTF-16 encoding.
Option 2:
- In Tableau Desktop, right click the data source in the Data pane and select Edit Data Source...
- In the join area, click the drop-down arrow on the table name and then select Text File Properties
- For Character Set, select the encoding used for the CSV file.
- For Text Qualifier, select the character used to mark where text begins and ends
Make sure field separator is not displayed in data value
Cause
Possibly Cause 1The file is saved with an encoding that does not match the character set setting of the connection, or the Text Qualifier is set incorrectly.
Possibly Cause 2
There are values including field separator (ex: using comma as separator but the number is displayed as 123,456)
Additional Information
Text FileConfigure your data set
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