After Tableau Cloud Updated To 2020.2, Views Are Broken Since Some "Number of Records" Fields Can Not Be Used Anymore

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After Tableau Cloud Updated To 2020.2, Views Are Broken Since Some "Number of Records" Fields Can Not Be Used Anymore

Published: 08 May 2020
Last Modified Date: 08 Jul 2022

Issue

Published workbooks using [Number of Records] in the views may be broken after the Tableau Cloud or Tableau Server upgraded to 2020.2.0. The [Number of Records] field is missing or been changed like the following:

[Number of Records 1]
[Number of Records 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1]

Environment

Tableau Server 2020.2.0
Tableau Cloud 2020.2
Treasure Data
Alteryx

Resolution

For Tableau Cloud
This issue has been resolved.

For Tableau Server
Option 1
Upgrade to Tableau Server 2020.2.1 or above.
Click here for downloads the current and previous versions of Tableau Server: Tableau Server Downloads and Release Notes.

Option 2
Manually edit views on the Web and replace invalid [Number of Records] field with [Migrated Data (Count)].
(The [Migrated Data (Count)] is the new replacement for "Number of Records")

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