Tableau Prep flow output step fails after moving flow to new Tableau Server instance during backup and restore process

Issue

The Tableau Server environment identified as output location in a Tableau Prep output step is not automatically updated when a published flow is moved from one Tableau Server environment to another via the backup/restore process.

Environment

Tableau Server
Tableau Prep

Resolution

To have the Tableau Prep flow output steps updated to a new target instance of Tableau Server automatically is an enhancement request. Currently, the output step of the flow must be updated manually and then re-run in Tableau Prep to publish it to the new Tableau Server instance.
Manually update Tableau Prep flow output step with new Tableau Server login location and credentials and republish to Tableau Server.

Cause

When the output step of a Tableau Prep flow is set to a specific target Tableau Server instance to be published as a data source and then that flow is moved to a different Tableau Server environment via the backup/restore process, the target Tableau Server instance is not automatically updated to the new instance.

Basically, if you set Server A as the target instance to publish a flow to as the output step of that flow and then move the flow to Server B via a Tableau Server backup/restore, the target server is not updated to Server B automatically as part of the backup/restore process

Additional Information

Please vote for this Tableau Community Idea to improve the current behavior.

For more on the specific action being taken as the output step, please see Save and Share Your Work: Publish as a data source.