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How To Use Today's Date As Output File Name By Tableau Prep CLI

Date de publication: Apr 30, 2025
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How to use today's date as the output file name in Tableau Prep CLI.
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1. Open the flow with Tableau Prep Builder GUI and create the parameter.
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2. Set parameter in the output name.
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3. Create a batch file that gets today's date and create parameters.override.json. (json file is auto created in the path specified upon running the batch file so there is no need to manually create it. It is just an empty file that can be any filename, and the date will be written/stored upon running the batch file.)
After running the batch file, it will save the output file name as today's date.

Sample batch file:

SET YYYYMMDD=%DATE:/=%
ECHO { "yyyymmdd": "%YYYYMMDD%" } > C:\Test\parameters.override.sample.json
"C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Prep Builder <version>\scripts\tableau-prep-cli.bat" -t C:\Test\Output.tflx -p C:\Test\parameters.override.sample.json

The sample and the flow file can be downloaded from the bottom of this article. 

 

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